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Having finally succeeded in transforming her slow-moving, unhealthy 104-kilo body to a slim-and-fit powerhouse that weighed half as much, life became easier and happier all round for this New Delhi-based media professional. She recently published her candid book describing the ups and downs she faced while trying to lose weight, until sheer motivation made her succeed.
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As the title goes, all the writers listed in this section have been on top of the bestsellers list at some point or the other. They have had reprints of their books, have sold in thousands and have a huge fan following. Most of their books have been optioned and most have a parallel world where writing came as a happy accident.
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It took more than boot camp, endless bowls of cabbage soup and Bollywood-ised Suryanamaskars for Kalli Purie, author of the book Confessions Of A Serial Dieter, to go from super sized to super fit. After surviving 43 fitness routines and losing 45 kilos, Kalli tells Urvashi Pant that she has found a whole new way of life.
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As the title goes, all the writers listed in this section have been on top of the bestsellers list at some point or the other. They have had reprints of their books, have sold in thousands and have a huge fan following. Most of their books have been optioned and most have a parallel world where writing came as a happy accident.
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"I had heard of a bitch of a dietician..." is how Kalli Purie opens one of the most important sections of her new weightloss book, Confessions of a Serial Dieter. I pick this line right in the beginning to emphasise the most significant achievement of this book: It knows the fat person's mind and speaks directly to it as a friend and an ally.
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"This is a self-help book, a book to help me," says Kalli Purie, author of Confessions of a Serial Dieter. The book is a bestseller, and it is not because she has anything different to say about the battle with weight. It is the same old fight, with the same old players - but this time we are reading about our personal diet nightmares.
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"This is a self-help book, a book to help me," says Kalli Purie, author of "Confessions of a Serial Dieter" (Harper Collins). The book is a bestseller, and it is not because she has anything different to say about the battle with weight. It is the same old fight, with the same old players - but this time we are reading about our personal diet nightmares.
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Do you have a friend who is fat? Then gift her/him this book. It's a nice and honest way of giving her/him the direction and the motivation of losing weight without having to say the hard words: "You need to lose weight", without hurting her/his feelings. Basically, that way, you can have your cake and eat it too. Only figuratively, of course.
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From a childhood gorging on chips to growing up with chocolates and champagne, Kalli Purie didn't realise when she had piled up 103 kilos. Her book, Confessions of a Serial Dieter makes one sit up and believe that if she can do it, why can't you?
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We converse with the effervescent media personality Kalli Purie who heads the India Today Digital business and has authored Confessions of a Serial Dieter, a weight loss memoir. In this book, which she began writing as a lark, became a therapeutic activity for her. The memoir is motivational and a very personal account that elaborates how Kalli went down from 104 to 60 kgs in 18 months!
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Setting a record for the most Grammys won by a female artiste in one night is not enough when you are overweight, learnt singer Adele. Why does success taste sweeter for women who are thin, asks Nona Walia.
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Do you have a turbulent relationship with your weighing machine? Does it make you cry after a date, not listen to you, and behave like it just doesn't give a damn? Wipe those tears, because there are clever ways to boost your twosome...
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It may be argued that people who don't want to lose weight have no business reading a self-help book about diets. It may also be argued that they serve as a useful test of reason. How long can your rational mind fight against the idea that you can always stand to lose some weight?
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It's disarmingly honest. It's fun. It's funny. It's inspirational. Kalli Purie's Confessions of A Serial Dieter (Harper Collins) is a very smart, very readable take on the whole weight loss thing. And since Kalli is not a dietician or a fitness expert, but a working woman (she is the chief creative officer for the India Today group and head of the company's digital business), and a married woman with two children (five-year-old Jianoor and six-year-old Jehanvir) who has been battling with weight issues all her life, the book is immediately relatable.
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Chocolates, champagne, diets and everything in between... these were just some of the topics that were talked about at a panel discussion during the launch of Kallie Purie's book, Confessions of a Serial Dieter, at The Park.
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I am absolutely the wrong person to review this book. Having never read a diet book in my life, the genre is unknown to me. I have never (this sounds like an obscene boast) gone on a diet. I have never watched my calories or visited a dietician.
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She's looking er, ravishing in red (Mango she confessed later). Kalli Purie is in the mood for confessions. And what's there in giving away the name of a high-street brand to someone who has gone out there and shared every move made by her weighing scale, kilo by kilo. Cake by cake.
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Author Kalli Purie unveils her book Confessions of a Serial Dieter at The Park Hotel in Kolkata.
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Since the age of four, Kalli Purie's life has been determined by a turn of scales. Swinging from 59 kilograms to 103 and back, her caloric intake has fluctuated with her experiences. Her thoughts on weight loss and the impact it has had on her are conveyed in an animated, tongue-in-cheek voice.
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Let us spot the assassin. In the sprawl of Diggi Palace, the site of Asia's biggest literary carnival, it's a mission as futile as separating the flannelled Booker winner from the autograph-hunting flaneur. Here, in a wintry day warmed by words, the man with a conspicuous beard and a glint in his gaze could be someone called Teju Cole, author of Open City, a first novel everyone wants to recommend.
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Wearing earrings that competed for attention with the big and beautiful chandeliers of the Durbar Hall at Diggi Palace, Kalli Purie, author Confessions of a Serial Dieter, sat next to fashion designer Wendell Rodricks swathed in shawl and art historian Alka Pande with her trademark red kumkum on her forehead, to talk at length about 'Shringara: The Temple of the Body, Costumes of the Mind'.
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Wearing earrings that competed for attention with the big and beautiful chandeliers of the Durbar Hall at Diggi Palace, Kalli Purie, author of Confessions of a Serial Dieter, sat next to fashion designer Wendell Rodricks swathed in a shawl and art historian Alka Pande with her trademark red kumkum on her forehead, to talk at length about Shringara: The Temple of the Body, Costumes of the Mind.
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Kalli Purie is a self-diagnosed chocoholic and a self-confessed serial dieter. Though she is a media professional, nothing has brought her more joy than shedding half her weight. Her book, Confessions of a Serial Dieter, has been recently published.
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"Men are no longer thinking about sex. They too are obsessed with weight, especially the weight of their wives," says Kalli Purie at the launch of her new weight loss memoir Confessions of a Secret Dieter. The book of the chief creative officer of the India Today Group is a first person account based on her 43 crash diets and workouts.
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It's rare to find a Bollywood star being so open about her struggles with her body, but Sonam Kapoor did not hold back any secret at the Delhi launch of Kalli Purie's Confessions of a Serial Dieter (published by HarperCollins India) on Sunday.
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Kalli Purie was over one hundred kilos when she decided she'd had enough of being overweight. Here's how she lost it.
In her 'weightloss memoir', Confessions of a Serial Dieter Kalli Purie is quite frank about her weight -- the kilos she'd lost and more importantly the ones she'd gained.
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"Losing weight is like chasing the hot guy. It's the moment of mixed feelings including ecstasy, joy, tear, sadness etc and when you get him, you have to be with it till eternity. It's all about finding that happy weight that one can feel good about," said Kalli Puri, at the launch of her weight loss memoir Confession of her Serial Dieter in the capital recently.
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Kalli Purie (right) with Fortis Healthcare Chairman Malvinder Singh at the launch of her book in New Delhi on Sunday, January 15, 2012.
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The svelte Sonam Kapoor can't sport a bikini because her weightloss regimen has left her with loose skin (apart from chronic acidity), and though she may now fit into a size two dress, she has to obsess about facial hair (she blames her father for it), sagging arms and cellulite.
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Publishers in India are coming out with an array of books by those who have won the battle of the bulge and lived to tell the tale. Smitha Verma on the never-ending demand for diet books
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Kalli Purie has struggled with her weight since childhood and has finally found a weight she is happy with. The diets featured are structured like episodes in her life, full of characters, anecdotes and nuggets of weight wisdom - from surya namaskars set to Bollywood beats to drastic coconut water diets, from a dark experiment with bulimia to a love affair with self-concocted champagne diet.
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Fine. Ok. I'll start. I'm addicted to Lays American Cream and Onion chips. I can eat a whole bag (the share pack) by myself anytime! *Phew* glad I got that out there. But I promise to back off the potato action till after my Goa wedding :) I swear!
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Twinke Khanna was at the launch of Kalli Purie's New Book 'Confessiona Of A Serial Dieter.' Other celebrities like Kalki Koechlin, Anurag Kashyap and Tina Ambani were present. Kalli Purie talks about the hard work that goes into
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Kalki Koechlin is not just appreciated for her performances, but also her lean frame. The actress says eating healthy and the right attitude help her stay fit.
"I am lucky that I have a good metabolism rate. If you are in a good, happy space, you are working hard and you are not overeating, then you get to eat everything you can as long as you keep exercising and eat sensible food," the 29-year-old said at the launch of Kalli Purie's book "Confessions of a Serial Dieter".
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It is being marketed as India's first 'weightloss memoir'.
Confessions of a Serial Dieter by Kalli Purie is a 225 pages long book that pretty much traces how the overweight author lost all the kilos she'd gained over the years.
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The skinny star talks about her metabolism and other things inside her
Kalki Koechlin gets admired for her performances and lean frame. The actress said eating healthy, and having right attitude to life, helps her to stay fit. "I am lucky to have a good metabolism. If you are in a good, happy space, you work hard, and do not overeat. Then you get to eat everything you can as long as you keep exercising," the 29-year-old said at the launch of Kalli Purie's book Confessions of a Serial Dieter.
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New Delhi: In an age where people tend to be judged for their looks and weight as well, how hard is it to be fat in India? How hard is to come back from what media professional Kalli Purie calls the dark zone?
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Kalli Purie's Confessions of a Serial Dieter, a weightloss memoir, is an unusual idea. Indeed, it is India's first of its genre - and its star- studded launch at Mumbai's JW Marriott hotel was befittingly unlike other book releases
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Eating is an addiction, and dieting can become one too. If you need convincing about this, you must read Kalli Purie's weight-loss memoir. Weight is the centerpiece of Kalli's life, the guiding light and force. "Other things have remained constant... but my weight has fluctuated and determined everything in my state of being - my appetite has determined my whole life," she writes.
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Eating is an addiction, and dieting can become one too. If you need convincing about this, you must read Kalli Purie's weight-loss memoir. Weight is the centerpiece of Kalli's life, the guiding light and force. "Other things have remained constant... but my weight has fluctuated and determined everything in my state of being - my appetite has determined my whole life," she writes.
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Kalli Purie has struggled with her weight since childhood and has finally found a weight she is happy with. Mostly. The diets featured in her book are structured rather like episodes in her life, full of characters, anecdotes and juicy nuggets of weight wisdom - from `surya namaskars` to Bollywood beats to drastic coconut water diets.
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Thirty-eight-year old mother of two kids, Kalli Purie, recounts her emotional journey of losing 40kg while going from 100 to 60kg, and trying out 43 diets in her first book Confessions Of A Serial Dieter. The media professional, who is going to launch her book in the city today, stresses on the importance of going back to a healthy lifestyle, especially now that everyone is back after indulging in pre-New Year excesses.
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When the Going Gets Fat, the Fat Go Hungry
I am not sure about the tough but the skinny definitely go hungry. It's not easy and there is no magic pill. You just have to shrink the tummy. And shrinkage is not painless. Be under no illusions, you have to walk this road. Most dieticians say, 'My diet will never starve you; there is so much to eat, you will be eating all day.
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The tipping point came three years ago. For too long, she had been putting on weight and putting off life. I'll scuba dive when I can fit into a wetsuit. Go on a sea plane when I don't have to reveal my weight. Go to the reunion, the uber-cool party when I'm thin.
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The tipping point came three years ago. For too long, she had been putting on weight and putting off life. I'll scuba dive when I can fit into a wetsuit. Go on a sea plane when I don't have to reveal my weight. Go to the reunion, the uber-cool party when I'm thin.
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She is seldom ever late. It's 10:30a.m., and media professional Kalli Purie gracefully glides in for this interview, on the dot. Her meetings are generally scheduled as early as possible in the morning (this is perhaps a late start)-she likes it that way.
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The bright red of her lipstick finds a dramatic echo in the well-fitted dress. With an hour-glass figure, shining eyes and a fresh face free of makeup, Kalli Purie looks a stylish 21. In fact, she is 38, mother to Jehan, 6, and Jia, 5; works at her corporate job from 10am to 6pm (at least) and has just written a book. But several urban women do this.
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How do you react when someone you meet after a long time tells you, "Wow you've lost a lot of weight" Do you gobble up the compliment as if it were a piece of cake and respond with a graceful "Thank you"? Or do you were to begin with?
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''The transformation is not just about looking different. It's about living different. The butterfly and the caterpillar lead two separate lives. One is delicate, graceful and beautiful. The other is fat, fuzzy and clumsy... Losing 45 kg is like that. It created a whole new me...''
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'Confessions of a serial dieter', by Kalli Purie, daughter of the owner and editor of India Today group comes to me by her to read through and to comment upon it on twitter. The book is interestingly written and presented and the last page where she shows her own progression on weight loss is quite a revelation. With what I see now of her, she should not be in the profession of writing books. She should join the movies !! '
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For the one who loved me the most when I loved myself the least," says the dedication page of Kalli Purie's weight loss memoir, Confessions of a Serial Dieter. That, in a way, says it all. It's a diy fat-to-fit memoir: an anti-weight journey of a "serial dieter" for three desperate decades and 43 anxious methods that finally ends in weight nirvana-from 100 kg to 60.
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Self-confessed 'serial dieter' Kalli Purie's weight loss epiphany come when she tipped the scales al 103 kilos and realised that she didn't have the energy to keep up with her two young children.
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It's all about finding the 'happy weight' that one can feel good about. This is how Kalli Purie described her "weight loss memoir", Confessions of a Serial Dieter (HarperCollins), as she signed copies of her book for fans, friends and family at the Khan Market bookstore Bahrisons on Friday.
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Speaking of books, senior journalist Aroon Purie's daughter Kalli, an Oxford-bred media professional, makes her debut with a rather interesting memoir on weight loss. Titled Confessions of a Serial Dieter, the book chronicles Kalli's tryst with fad diets and her tumultuous relationship with food.
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Kalli Purie has struggled with her weight since childhood and has finally found a weight she is happy with. Mostly. The diets featured here are structured rather like episodes in her life, full of characters, anecdotes and juicy nuggets of weight wisdom - from surya namaskars set to Bollywood beats to drastic coconut water diets, from a dark experiment with bulimia to a love affair with a self-concocted champagne diet.
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Just read (and blogged about) your extraordinary story, of which I had absolutely no idea. It is mighty spunky of you to tell it all. More power to you. Salut.
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