India, Sept. 6 -- Are you trying to eat healthy, exercise regularly, follow an 8-hour sleep pattern, walk 10k steps every day, in the hope of achieving a certain level of fitness and losing weight? Many begin their fitness journey with these steps, but eventually hit a plateau - when the weight stops changing even though they are following all the key steps.

Dr Ashish Gautam, principal director, robotic and laparoscopic surgery, Max Super Speciality Hospital, Patparganj, New Delhi, in an interview with HT Lifestyle, explained the phenomenon in which losing the first few kilograms is easy, but the next few kilograms feel hard.

According to the surgeon, the first few kilograms often come off quickly after one changes their eating habits a...