Being able to go out with him and do all  those wonderful things with him gave me further reason to carry on with what   I was doing .Its  super !    Life is beautiful .And ironically,the cause of his weight gain was also the cause of its loss .    The musician recall ,It started off (putting on weight )with my son .I don’t mean hes to blame , not at all . Its just  that when I loss my son, when he was taken away from me ,It was more than I could bear . I was very close to him . Even though he was just fourt years old , we were like finger and nail .

We bonded so well . my life revolved around him. I was a single parent at that time . I learned how to cook because of him. We were living in Toronto and didn’t have any domestic help, I had to do everything  myself and  how long can you keep feeding your child fast food and restaurant stuff ? you have to give him home cooked food . So I learned cooking . I would wake him up in the morning to take him to his play school and I’d  make his lunch for him . Even if was recording , I’d pick  him up from school, give him his lunch at school .”

      Adnan  and his son had settled into this comfortable routine when his life was devastated  by the forced separation . He recall those harrowing days : “Suddenly he disappeared  form my life . I went into complete depression .  My life nose _dived . For an entire year I went into isolation . It was terrible . During that  period I got  into compulsive  eating  My weight ballooned and there came a time  when I began  looking  to food for comfort .

In any case from my  maternal  side I   have inherited  a  tendency  to  put  on weight. It got to a point where I  was eating because  I  was depressed  and  I  was         depressed   because  I was eating. It was like a vicious cycle  circle  and I didn’t  know how to  get out  of it. I later discovered  that today  it is acknowledged  as a disease. It’s  as much  of an addiction   and a problem  as alcoholism  or drug addiction !” 

You suppress a shudder as he relieves the

Nightmare. “My Life went totally  out of control. As the pounds and kilos  started to mount,  my activities  reduced to the point  where my existence came to a stand still. I needed a walking  stick  to move around. I needed a wheelchair – and  I couldn’t  fit into wheelchairs,  so I had to get a wheelchair constructed specially to fit my size !  It was horrible. I didn’t