Nasir Sikder: A Dreaming Marathon Bengali!
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Nasir Sikder is about to reach his fiftieth birthday! At this age, lots of lifestyle diseases have made their own home in his body such as heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heartburn, foot burn, brain fogging, snoring, fatigue, headache, overweight, and even more. One day he made a Facebook post saying that he may not live much longer, very soon may die as his father died at the age of fifty-three by heart attack. It’s very true to think of death from suffering all these diseases. Day by day, he was losing his concentration, and could not keep up with work life. In the meantime, he used to work from home, not going to the office as he feels fatigue from not having enough sleep at night.
Standing beside a fading life, one Saturday he went through a video, sent by his better half, explaining about Autophagy!
After that, the struggle to reverse his life began! He started health related research about how to get back his life. He searched books, newspapers, google, Facebook, YouTube as well as renowned doctors to learn how to get out of obesity in a natural way, using no medication! His hopeless mind saw some light there!
Then it became the time to use his researched knowledge on his own body. Initially he had changed his food habits and went back to natural foods. He started eating two meals per day instead of three or four, and after six months he lost about 10 kg / 22 pounds and felt a little lighter. At this stage, he thought he was prepared enough to run. And so, his life of running started!
Initially he started by run-walk-run, never stopping despite being tired until he met his everyday goal. It’s continued for days but his heart was still weak, not strong enough for running. But Nasir Sikder’s legs were dreaming of running!
So he started researching about heart health. As a result, he stopped using oil in cooking, instead opting for pure water, meaning he replaced oil with water. After three months of stopping the use of oil, he noticed tremendous changes in his heart!
Now he could run 6 miles instead of 3 miles with the same effort. After another 3 months he could easily do 10 miles.
Now he is dreaming of running in marathon, which is a whole 26.2 miles, even though he hadn’t run a year yet! At this stage, he went from 93kg to 70kg.
After having the full support of his heart, he no longer considered running as just an exercise – he was enjoying running! He kept continuing to run, while also sharing his progress on Facebook live video. Every day he was challenging himself against his previous runs, all in order to defeat the Nasir Sikder of yesterday.
After that, the time came to run in a marathon, which was then his dream. He started signing up for different national and international marathon events. First, he was called to the San Francisco Marathon of September 19, 2021. Before this, he did 4 personal training marathons.
For his first marathon, he completed in 8 hours which was really tough but joyful after completion and was on May 31, 2021. Now he completes most of his marathons in less than 3.5 hours.
For the time being, he was adding up more and more marathons in his running map. He completed 12 marathons in 8 months, including NYC Marathon, Boston Marathon, Hamptons Marathon, Miami Marathon, and two ultramarathons, and the list will be continuing.
“If a human being is willing, they can come back from any negative situations they may face”, Nasir Sikder strongly believes.
A depressed man thinking of his death, found a new life through running! And that is why, he wants to share his positive comeback story and his exercise with thousands of people across the world.
He is dreaming of an ‘OBESITY FREE WORLD’!
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