You've done the 10-day thing before
Let's be honest — you've probably tried the crash-diet-before-the-wedding thing at least once. Everyone has. You cut carbs hard, skip a meal or two, maybe drink some detox water, and by day five the scale actually moves. Feels amazing. Then you go to one function, eat a plate of biryani, and somehow you're back to square one by Monday. Here's the part nobody tells you: that 'weight' you lost in week one? Mostly water. Your body wasn't torching fat that fast — it just ran low on stored carbs, and water follows those carbs out the door. Eat normally again and it all rushes back, sometimes with a little extra just to rub it in.
So what's actually realistic
Around 0.5–1% of your body weight a week. If you're 75 kg, that's half a kilo to three-quarters, weekly. Painfully slow compared to 'lose 5 kg in 10 days' — but the trade-off nobody advertises is this: lose it fast and you're burning through muscle along with fat. Lose it slow, with enough protein and a bit of strength work, and your body holds onto that muscle. Which is exactly what keeps your metabolism from tanking six months later.
What this looks like on your actual plate
You don't need to swap dal-chawal for quinoa salad. Just shift the proportions: a quarter protein (dal, paneer, eggs, curd, chicken — whatever you already eat), a quarter carbs (roti, rice, millets), and half vegetables. Swap deep-frying for roasting or a light pan-fry where you can. That's genuinely most of the work.