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    Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is all set to fly into space along with a team of people on July 20. Among the team of people who were involved in building the rocket that will launch Jeff Bezos into space is Sanjal Gavande.

    Sanjal is a resident of Maharashtra, and the 30 year old is part of the team that built the rocket system, New Shepard, for Bezos's space exploration company Blue Origin.
    Sanjal Gavande is the daughter of a municipal corporation employee who lives in Kolsewadi locality in Kalyan. She completed her mechanical engineering degree from the University of Mumbai and then went to Michigan Technological University in the US to pursue her Masters.
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    While she was pursuing her course, she opted for aerospace as a subject in her curriculum.

    Speaking to India Today, Sanjal Gavande’s parents said that their daughter achieved what she aimed for. Her father, Ashok Gavande said, "She always wanted to build a spaceship and that is the reason she chose aerospace as a subject while pursuing her Master's degree at Michigan Technological University. She worked with Mercury Marine after finishing her Masters at Wisconsin. Then she went to work with Toyota racing development at Orange City in California.”
    He added, "She even got a commercial pilots license in the US. She wanted to join Blue Origin. She would look on the website and then apply whenever she saw some openings. After her application was approved, she cleared the interview and joined Blue Origin. We just supported her and she achieved everything on her own.”
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    Sanjal’s mother said, "She was a silent girl since childhood and good in studies. She was also good in drawing and won many accolades, which helped her in mechanical design when she chose mechanical engineering."

    She added,"People told us that she is a girl and why has she opted for mechanical engineering? I also thought sometimes about whether she would be able to handle such hard work. She has now made us all proud. She had a dream of designing aerospace rockets and she has achieved it.”

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    Whenever we talk about the T20 World Cup, the first thing that comes to our mind is MS Dhoni lifting the trophy after beating arch-rivals Pakistan in 2007. That was the inaugural edition of the showpiece tournament and a young Indian team, led by an inexperienced skipper went all the way to make the nation proud when nobody expected them to.
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    Since then, several editions have passed but India is yet to repeat the same magic, despite being home to the best T20 league in the world and having a large group of players who can walk into any T20 side in the world.

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    Former Indian batsman Gautam Gambhir, who was the top-scorer in the 2007 final, blasted the Indian mentality of cherishing the past way too much. Saying that it was nice to be part of a World Cup-winning side, Gambhir pointed out that 13 years have gone by and we’re still obsessing about our past achievements rather than thinking about the future.

    The cricketer-turned-politician opined that it was time that we moved on from the past and started looking at the future.
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    “It was special (being a part of the 2007 T20 World Cup squad), but I have forgotten about it. To be honest, India needs to move on from that. 2007, it’s what, more than 13 years ago and I think we need to get rid of this obsession of 2007 and 2011," Gambhir said on Star Sports.

    Robin Uthappa, another player who was part of the 2007 World T20 squad, echoed Gambhir’s thoughts and said the Indian team has already proven that they have what it takes to bring the trophy home.
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    “Of course, for me personally, it’s a special moment, but I tend to agree with Gautam Gambhir. I think we have achieved that in 2007, so we know that is achievable," Uthappa said.

    Both Gambhir and Uthappa were speaking after the International Cricket Council announced the groups for the forthcoming T20 World Cup.
    ICYMI: The groups for the #T20WorldCup have been revealed.

    Get to know the 16 teams duking it out for the trophy at this year’s tournament https://t.co/K6iQjFYa6z pic.twitter.com/46TXHVJoKZ
    — T20 World Cup (@T20WorldCup) July 16, 2021
    As has become the norm, arch-rivals India and Pakistan were placed in the same group and fans were delighted with the news. Besides India and Pakistan, Group 2 also has New Zealand, Afghanistan and two other qualifying teams. There is a possibility that Bangladesh and Sri Lanka could be those two teams.

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    Let’s Start With A Little Background, Shall We?

    Weight loss and I…oh, boy, where do I even begin? It’s been an extreme push and pull relationship since I was 17-years-old and was first diagnosed with severe Hypothyroidism. To make things even worse, I share an intense, passionate and all-consuming relationship with food…which has not always worked out well for me.
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    I have seesawed between fat, skinny, chubby, skinny fat, obese, thin, ‘athletic’ and overweight for almost 15 years now. Obviously, it’s not healthy, but now, you can understand why weight and I have been in such a long and turbulent relationship.

    My childhood was all about sports. Ha! Surprised? Went like ‘wtf’? Well, it’s true. I am talking National level stuff here. I was in shape. Obsessed with physical activity, but all of that ended when I was diagnosed and I sacrificed sports for a ‘career’.
    Hypothyroidism entered my life and told me straight to my face: “Sweety, I am going to make your life miserable from now on. Try and lose all the weight you want, I won’t let that happen!” Since then, it’s been all about eating less, eating right, working out, moving more, staying healthy…concepts that were totally alien to me while I was growing up and was in the best shape of my life.
    When Sh*t Hit The Fan2020 began on a fantastic note for me. I just turned 30 and was already super motivated AF to drop some major kilos. I was a work-in-progress at a fitness centre and was freaking killing it there. My clothes were becoming loose. I was feeling attractive. I was getting compliments. I was on top of the damn world. Life was good.
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    March arrived and that’s when all my progress went to sh*t.

    With the Coronavirus global pandemic slowly progressing from a ‘concern’ to an actual ‘oh-my-God-is-this-really-happening’ development, my only source of workout came to a screeching halt. And initially, I took it as a positive thing. I mean, more time at home means more time to work out, right? Well, it was not the case for me.
    I found myself more and more dead tired by the end of work by each passing day, and more stressed. Obviously, I could not even step out for a run, which meant I needed to start ‘home workouts’ and I have always hated doing that with a burning passion. Working out for me means literally stepping out. I need to leave my home to exercise. Simple.
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    However, as the kilos kept piling up, no matter how less I ate or how ‘clean’ my diet was, the internet was being flooded with incredible stories of how people had dramatically transformed their bodies in just 3 months or 6 months.

    Super obese people were now sporting abs, women who were struggling with post-pregnancy weight were looking like freaking supermodels.
    The one thing all these stories had in common was that they were madly working out on a daily basis. I am talking 1-2 hours of cardio and weight and yoga and anything other workout you can think out. Now, as I said before, working out in my room was the one thing I hated the most, but I started feeling like I had no other choice. Everyone was doing it, why was I finding it so difficult. With that in mind, I started the in-my-room exercises…and I had never felt worse in my life.
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    I missed the fresh air of my daily walks, I freaking missed the people at my gym as we danced together in a sweaty, musical ritual. And by the end of 3 months, I had lost a meagre 4 kilos…which made me almost smash everything in my room.

    The ‘AHA’ Moment That Made Me See Things In A New LightWith a year having gone into the pandemic and my weight trying to give competition to that of a Panda, I tortured myself every day watching these ‘weight loss stories and screamed from the inside that I was not able to do that despite all my efforts. 
    Somehow, I had convinced myself that if I do not lose weight like others during the pandemic, I was a loser and that I could not do anything else. Suddenly, all my past achievements in life did not matter. I also started associating my worth to the numbers dropping on the scale.
    Try and imagine how frustrating I must have felt to watch the kilos pile up despite eating clean, despite working out. Yes, my job required me to stay pretty much chained to the computer all day, and that prevented me from working on my NEAT, but I was still doing everything right.
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    One day, around 4 am, as I was staring at my burning vanilla-scented candle and trying to win my war with insomnia, I started wondering if I should just stop. Stop with the fruits and veg, stop running like a headless chicken on my rooftop, stop doing endless situps and planks and just accept my fate of turning into a continent…when something hit me like a truck.

    I.Was.Stressed.From.Trying.To.Lose.Weight.
    A process that's supposed to make you feel better, was actually sucking all the joy and happiness from my life!
    No wonder I was miserable even though I had lost 10 kilos in 5 months. Sure the weight was coming down even though at the speed of a snail, but what was I losing in the process? I was angrier than ever, my hair was literally turning grey, I starting getting acne like crazy, I was tensed all the time, my endless patience was dwindling, I was forcing myself to be happy (something that came so naturally to me)
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    I realized that one person’s weight loss DOES NOT have to be my story. Another person’s transformation DOES NOT have to be my goal. What will happen if I don’t lose all that weight in a limited time? Exactly, nothing! Will my family kick me out? No. Will I lose my job? No. Will my friends abandon me? No way. So? Why was I killing myself over not being able to lose 20 kilos in 3 months like so many others? Why couldn’t I be happy with my progress, no matter how small it was?

    Finally…When I Gave Myself Priority Over My WeightI started praising myself for my tiny but significant gains. I told myself that I was losing weight slowly despite a severe medical condition and a sedentary job, and that was freaking amazing! I assured myself that I was not unhealthy and was not killing myself if I ate cake or a damn lasagna once in a while. I accepted that my body was different…my journey was different…I was different from all those people who were going viral for their transformations, and that I was doing nothing wrong.
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    Slowly, but surely, peace started resurfacing back in my head. I stopped plotting the death of the universe. I stopped seeing food as my mortal enemy. I continued doing what I was doing with the little workouts, and minus the stress and all that negativity I had created…I realized I was actually killing it!

    Once I figured out that it was not some race to lose weight, the pressure just died, and I was proud of my efforts.
    And right now, even though I am still not ‘thin’ yet. And am still waiting for the rains to stop and the situation outside to ease up so I can run again, I am finally at peace with my journey. Because I have nothing to prove to anyone, and being healthy, both physically and mentally, is more important to me right now in this pandemic.
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    Honestly, guys, look at what is happening outside. We are the privileged few. While people are dying and families are being torn apart with grief because of Covid, some of us are still healthy surrounded by our precious family in our homes, safe and happy. Instead of coming down on ourselves just because of that number on the weighing machine, how about we thank God to be alive and healthy right now?

    The weight will drop, eventually, but it’s not worth losing your mental peace over it. I paid a price to come to that life-altering realisation...but you don't have to.

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