Author: kajoltanayabehera
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How I Learned What Weight Loss Actually Is (After Getting It Wrong for Three Years)
I was twenty two. Fresh out of college. New job, new city, new everything. My goal was to live the best life. What could have been a good starting point? Lose weight! Get the Glam! The formula was simple- Eat less. Work out. Repeat. I did not know a single thing about how a body…
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The Freedom I Bought and the Discomfort It Came With
I took a career break this year. Not a full stop. I still do academic coaching, research assistance work, and I am building a small venture. But I stepped away from the fixed monthly salary and the repetitive cycle that came with being “employed”. While I was reflecting on this, I thought- why not make…
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Beyond Masculine and Feminine
I have a problem with the words “masculine” and “feminine“. Masculine sounds like man. Feminine sounds like woman. The words carry the body inside them before they carry any meaning. This is likely why feminism gets misread so often. People hear equality of genders and somehow receive female chauvinism instead. The word itself points at…
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The Set Weight Point
We are all made differently. We store body fat differently, we have different body frames and even different shapes. No one fitness model suits everyone. However, some concepts and theories apply to all human bodies since our bodies share a common evolutionary history. While we know widely about Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), which applies to…
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Why “Gender Neutral” Programmes Fail in Practice
A Lived Experience In 2020, I travelled to Rajasthan as a communications intern to document an NGO’s field project with remote tribal communities. It was my first time on the ground meeting beneficiaries. In one of the documentaries, we interviewed a woman from the Kalbelia tribe near Banswara. Since our languages did not match, we…