When my belly had to be given had to be given its own name.

Bad eating habits make your back condition difficult to manage.  Bad timings, fat filled junk food and that lovely ice cold beer all help you get that nice grip around your waist called love handles.

Suresh was discovered one day while my friend was walking towards me from a distance. I saw his huge belly move up and down in slow motion. It was baywatch gone bad, really really bad!! The belly was so big that we had to establish it as a separate identity. Reference to it only as a beer belly seemed inadequate.

Hence was born Suresh: The Belly.

As per my observation, my back did hurt the most during days when Suresh was at his maximum size. These brief periods were followed by lots of crunches and other such exercises. These were not rigorous exercises but slow concentrated ones that would take a bit longer to show results but they would not irritate my sensitive back.

You don’t need to take your shirt off and see that the belly is directly connected to your back. Each gram of weight you add to your belly directly affects your back. Since I had a back condition it was imperative that I reduced my Suresh. As I worked on it, the strain on my back reduced not only because of its reduction but because of the muscles on my abdominals getting stronger. I had a neat 2 pack in summer of 2010 :)

Key, for me, to taking care of my back is taking care of my Suresh.

-Out