Mad about motherhood!
As a medical nutritionist and aesthetic physician, Dr Aalika has helped a number of patients make healthy, sustainable lifestyle choices and even helped patients with PCOS successfully conceive. Her blog ‘Aalika Prescribes’ has enabled her to reach a wider audience, precisely over 55,000, through her musings, anecdotes and foodie advice. Her personal journey though, was not as easy as she hoped. In an exclusive with M&B, she looks back on the toughest year of her life, and how a little bit of gumption and a whole lotta’ faith enabled her to add another title to her repertoire, and expand her blog to include a different wing—Motherhood.
TELL US ABOUT YOU AND CHETAS. HOW DID THE TWO OF YOU MEET?
I consider myself one of the lucky few to have found my calling early-on in life, and nothing gives me more joy than healing my patients with food, medicine, and encouraging a sustainable, yet fruitful lifestyle change. But I was always that doctor who needed ‘balance’ in life. And that’s where my hubby dearest Chetas stepped in.
He is a celebrity DJ by profession, so as fate would have it, I met my husband at a club where he was playing, that night. ‘The DJ definitely got me falling in love,’ and our story took off from there! He was just on the verge of becoming India’s number one Bollywood DJ, and seeing him excel and grow in his profession made me so proud. In my head, DJs had a notorious rep, but this man was different. He had no vices, he was a thorough family man, and a workaholic. Instead of being a party animal, he was pretty much the opposite! And he was
