✓ Reviewed for medical safety by Dr Hemi Soneja, MBBS, MD, Endocrinology and Diabetology, Reg. No. DMC 731, on 31 October 2026.
Note from the reviewing doctor: Insulin resistance is at the core of diabetes and PCOS, and addressing it early can make a significant difference to a person's overall health. Changing your lifestyle is almost like changing your medication, that is how effective it can be, especially when done consistently. So please seek medical guidance and make these changes under supervision.
This is one person's experience, shared with their consent. Every body is different. It is not medical advice, so please keep working with your doctor, and never change or stop medication without them.
The Kaul family's story at a glance
- Who: Sanjay Kaul, a CA, with his wife Jyoti and their son Anjaneya, from Gurgaon, Delhi NCR
- Condition: Sanjay's diabetes and hypertension of 23 years, and weight struggles for Jyoti and Anjaneya
- Program: the Satvic lifestyle, learned from Satvic Movement's videos
- What they changed: 16-hour fasting, vegetable juice and fruit breakfasts, soups and salads in place of extra grain meals, sunbathing, oil massage and yoga
- What they noticed: in their words, Sanjay lost 11.5 kg and saw better sugar and BP readings, Jyoti lost 18 kg and Anjaneya lost 4 kg
The family that eats together stays together….in health or disease. Nobody tells you this until you wake up to this truth yourself. I lost my father to a Diabetes-triggered heart condition, my mother still takes 3 insulin injections a day, I was fighting Diabetes and hypertension for 23 years, and my wife Jyoti and son Anjaneya were battling obesity too. Over time, I came to feel that our ghar ka khaana (home food) mattered far more than I had believed, even with diabetes in the family. So what changed for us? We turned to the head of our family – Mother Nature – and went shopping with her to God’s kitchen. Let me tell you what we found.
“If only I had learned to answer Mother Nature’s call earlier, I wouldn’t have to dodge any diseases in the first place. Perhaps I was afraid of nature back then. After all, I was afraid of inheriting a genetic curse. My mother was taking insulin 3 times a day and my father lost his life to a heart and lung problem triggered by his Diabetes.”***
Accounting for my health
As a refugee of the 1989 Kashmiri Hindu exodus, I worked hard to thrive after getting lucky to survive. I was finally set with a stable job in L&T as I got married to Jyoti in 1995. But when I was diagnosed with Diabetes a few years later, I realized this was a problem I couldn’t run away from. Subconsciously, I knew something was wrong. The signs were evident 1-2 years before my diagnosis. Unpredictable energy drains, dizziness while getting up suddenly, and answering nature’s calls way too many times throughout the day.
*Kaul family before following the Satvic Lifestyle*
If only I had learned to answer Mother Nature’s call earlier, I wouldn’t have to dodge any diseases in the first place. Perhaps I was afraid of nature back then. After all, I was afraid of inheriting a genetic curse. My mother was taking insulin 3 times a day and my father lost his life to a heart and lung problem triggered by his Diabetes. Now I’m a CA by profession, but I never imagined accounting for my blood sugar numbers would be more stressful than all the number crunching for my clients. My fasting blood sugar was over 200 and 300 after eating. My medication doses kept going up, but so did my blood sugar. “I think you should prepare to switch to insulin injections soon.” – my doctor announced. As much as I dreaded the blood sugar test and accounting for my readings, Jyoti dreaded stepping on the weighing scale and accounting for her readings. She used to weigh 126 kg back then and had already overcome a painful stint with PCOD before my son Anjaneya’s birth. PCOD made it so hard for her to lose weight, and the extra weight seemed to make the PCOD harder too. In 2013, one of us had bariatric surgery to lose weight. But after some time, the weight stagnated around 90 kgs. But as much as we wanted to avoid this daily accounting for our health, we were accountable to our beloved Anjaneya. We didn’t want to consider the possibility of leaving our son early the way my father left us. And it broke our hearts to see him struggling with his weight.
*Anjaneya spending most of his time indoors, watching TV and binging on snacks*
Breaking free during lockdown
While lockdown 2020 was a harrowing time for most people, for my family, it was the phase of a caterpillar turning into a butterfly.When we went out for a party together after the restrictions eased down, a shower of compliments and curious discussions greeted us. Why?I had lost 11.5 kg (78.5 kg to 67 kg), and my blood sugar readings had improved. My friends asked – “I know you must be really happy to step on the weighing machine now, but where did you find a time machine? You look so young like you went 15 years back in time.”Jyoti had dropped 18 kgs of weight (90 kg to 72 kg). Her hairstylist was surprised to see how shiny and strong her hair looked now. The dark pigmentation on her thigh left behind by her PCOD had disappeared too.
Sanjay, Jyoti and Anjaneya going for their routine morning walk and having a rejuvenating start to their day
Anjaneya had lost 4 kgs of weight (71 kg to 67 kg). He no longer had to hear hurtful names from other children. He wasn’t breathing heavily 15 mins after stepping onto the playground anymore. Enema felt unnatural to me at first, but Jyoti convinced me that it was not a big deal. I started following all the steps except the wet pack, and Jyoti helped me follow the food plan. In the mornings, I do yoga from YouTube and lift weights at home for 70 to 90 minutes.
They all wanted to know the secret behind our shocking makeovers.
*Kaul family starting their day off with a delicious glass of ABC juice*
The secret unveiled
Last year, we came across a Satvic Movement video about diabetes and daily habits. Our spiritual grounding and longing for a natural solution really opened me up to this philosophy. My wife Jyoti had been a wonderful initiator and mentor on my journey. So she became my healing partner and took up the healing plan with even more enthusiasm than me.Although 16 hour fasting scared me initially wondering how my blood sugar would react, it didn’t take more than a few weeks to adopt it fully. We were already huge fans of ash gourd juice, which Ayurveda describes as rich in prana. So now we started every morning with a fresh vegetable juice and a fruit platter for breakfast.
*Kaul family praying together before having their breakfast*
Ditching our extra grain meals was easy as the wholesome and delicious soups, salads, and smoothies from the Satvic Food Book replaced them. Strangely, it felt like they were cleaning away our cravings too. Sunbathing and oil massage became a family favourite ritual. It took some time for us to do enema and wet packs consistently, but I could see why so many people in the community spoke so warmly about them. My BP used to be 140/90, but now it stays within the 125/85 range. Checking our health no longer felt like a stressful daily audit. It was like activating a sixth sense within us becoming aware of how our body feels when we eat different foods.
Every journey is different. If you are on medication or have a medical condition, make any changes together with your doctor. If this story speaks to you, our workshops are a good place to start learning the Satvic lifestyle.
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