Tiruchi cloud kitchen K Noms gives people food for thought with tasty diet menu

Cloud kitchen K Noms Foods offers diet food in a tasty avatar in Tiruchi

Abirami S Shakthivel has an intimate relationship with food. As a former weightlifter and now a mother, she has experienced first-hand the effect of diet on one’s overall well-being. And she is determined to share the tips she has picked up about healthy eating through her Tiruchi-based cloud kitchen K Noms, which specialises in customised low-calorie diet menus and snacks.

“I was a weightlifter in college, so I did have a basic understanding of fitness and diet early on. But things changed after I graduated and became busy trying to develop my career. When I suffered a miscarriage six months after my marriage, my weight shot up to 120 kilograms. This is when I started researching my problematic relationship with food,” says Abirami.

In 2016, she started noticing the effects of low-calorie diets, and also how commercially prepared food plays fast and loose with nutrition.

“Switching over to a low-calorie menu that I used to prepare myself, I was able to bring my weight down to 87 kilograms. My husband Shakthivel joined me soon, as he felt the dishes were tastier,” she smiles.

During her second pregnancy, she resumed having ‘regular’ food, as her doctor advised her against going in for ‘fancy diets’ for the sake of the unborn child. “But my weight went up again, as I was diagnosed with carbohydrate and gluten intolerance, which was causing water retention. I went back to the low-carb diet soon,” she recalls.

With no low-carb food suppliers in Tiruchi, Abirami decided to cook for herself, even though her medical condition was precarious.