BREAKING BARRIERS TO WEIGHT LOSS THROUGH COMBINED PROGRAMME OF REFLEXOLOGY AND DIET PLAN

There are lots of misconceptions about losing weight. Popular media is full of fad diets and magic weight loss potions endorsed by celebrities and supported by personal success stories. Managing weight is a life-long commitment – not just following a diet for a few weeks to drop kilograms. The purpose of this study was to investigate the combined effect of reflexology and diet plan on weight loss. It was hypothesized that significant difference will be observed before and after the combined programme of reflexology and diet plan. For fulfilling the purpose, the data was collected from Dr. Megha’s Holistic Healing Centre, Nagpur and its two franchises namely Atharv Holistic Clinic, Amravati and Mrunal Holistic Clinic, Wardha of Maharashtra State, India. Total 19 subjects, 6 males and 13 females, were selected from the centres mentioned above for this study by purposive sampling method, who were enrolled in the month of December, 2021 for the purpose of weight loss. At the time of joining to the centre the pre-test data was collected from the subjects. Then, the subjects were given scheduled diet plan and reflexology program continuously for four months and the post test was conducted subsequently. The collected data was analysed by using paired samples t-test. It was found that the calculated value of ‘t’ of body weight, body mass index, thigh and upper arm girths are greater than the tabulated value of ‘t’ insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(18); in 0.05 level of significance, which shows there is significant difference between the pre and post-test of mentioned anthropometric variables. So, the researchers’ hypothesis is accepted.