Funny, easy to read and full of great advice, it argues that we should return to our traditional eating roots yes, ghee is good for you ,. Intuitiv abnehmen. Don't Lose Out, Work Out! With more and more people realizing the need to exercise, gyms are cropping up at every nook and corner, roads are occupied by recreational runners and yoga schools have an enviable waiting list. But along with this has grown the number of injuries and disillusionment at not getting 'results'. Das unsichtbare Leben der Addie LaRue.
Fischer Verlag. Addie LaRue ist die Frau, an die sich niemand erinnert. Die unbekannte Muse auf den Bildern Alter Meister.
Darm mit Charme. Das tut jedem gut: Der Darm trainiert zwei Drittel unseres Immunsystems. The weirder sounding, the better; Chia seeds, Acai berry, quinoa, etc, etc. When I started as a nutritionist about ten years ago, I struggled to find my place in the fitness and wellness industry hardly an industry, but nevertheless. For starters I had to deal with the stereotype of a healthy as in plump and preferably double chinned, not fit and lean sari and apron wearing dietician, while I was a young postgraduate in tights and jeans.
My clients were aghast that I was promoting weight training, yoga and running as a means to keeping fit. It was easier to fool people into believing that starvation was the way, somehow there was a ready clientele for anything like: no banana, no workout, no food only juice, etc. Yet as I struggled to find a foothold, I was sure that eventually people would realise obviously with the help of some fitness professionals, more access to information and some hard hitting experiences that losing fat and getting into shape has much more to it than how many grams or kilos you have dropped in a week or six months.
About this book Through this book I share with you my take on dieting, and how dieting or diet is the most misunderstood term in English. Eating correctly has to be a lifelong commitment, and the diet should be a reflection of this.
Diet, or what you eat, should be planned according to your activity, lifestyle, fitness levels, likes, dislikes, genetics, etc. It should be part of our daily life, just as brushing our teeth is. For diets to work they have to be personalised. Oversimplification or generalisation has never worked.
We are all genetically predisposed to carry fat in different parts of our body. So for fun, pick up the book which has the shape on its cover you identify with more, apple or pear but do know that the basics of fat loss and healthy living remain the same, regardless of your shape, size, gender, age, nationality, etc.
My other belief which you will find in this book is that all food is good. All foods contain nutrients which have their own role to play in our body. We need all kinds of nutrients, like carbs, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals, and depriving us of even one of them will create an imbalance in our system.
Also, there is no bravery attached to weight loss. You can achieve it just by falling sick. What is most important is that you feel good about yourself, treat yourself well, be committed to eating properly and exercising; and weight loss, rather fat loss, will just happen. Punishing yourself by going on deprivation diets liquid diets, low carb, high protein or any other fad diet is never going to work.
You will lose weight but at what cost? Not to mention that it will all come back, double of what you lost, in fact. My book is about my philosophy of dieting which is a confluence of what I have learnt and still am learning in my studies of yoga and ayurveda, and during my Sports Science and Nutrition PG, Over the years I have come to understand that everything that we do or do not do is motivated by a strong desire to be happy. We want to lose weight because we think that it will make us happy.
We want to, just have to, eat that pastry because it will make us happy. The problem is that we are looking for happiness in the wrong place. Dieting or eating correctly, is a process, a learning tool, to go within. And when we see or experience that glimpse of reality within ourselves, it will has to reflect in our physical body.
Wikipedia on crash diets A crash diet is a diet which is extreme in its nutritional deprivations, typically severely restricting calorie intake. It is meant to achieve rapid weight loss and may differ from outright starvation only slightly. They are not meant to last for long periods of time, at most a few weeks. Importantly, the term specifically implies a lack of concern for proper nutrition. It is the last sentence above that is really scary. We just seem to lack that concern, that commitment to feed ourselves right.
I think we are barking up the wrong tree here. When people stop punishing themselves, fad diets will beat a quick retreat. That a lot of dieticians will find themselves out of a job is another issue altogether. How to use this book Using common sense when it comes to eating correctly is the central theme of the book. I have tried to put my view across in a way that all of us with or without a background in fitness and nutrition will understand.
Throughout the book I have liberally used the experiences of my clients and the amazing stories they had to tell, as examples to illustrate my point better and to make it connect with you, my reader, I feel all of us will be able to relate at some level with these real life examples. Of course wherever required, I have used fictitious names. At some places I draw parallels between food and subjects which may seem to be completely irrelevant or far removed from it such as politics or religion or our cars.
But in my experience we seem to understand the politics of our country or the state of our car better than we do our body, hence the comparison. It is just my attempt to demystify diet and dieting.
Furthermore, for all the busy bees out there I have put a cheat sheet at the end of each chapter, summarising all the important points of the chapter. These are your takeaways. I have used boxes all through the book for everything from exploding myths to relating 10 interesting anecdotes, or to talk about anything supporting the text in the chapter. The box on crash diets is a case in point. I had the best time writing these boxes and hope you enjoy them as well, as you read and reread.
This book will urge you to think differently about your body, food, and the act of eating. I sincerely hope it does.
As for how much weight will you lose? Two things. First, know that every time you talk about weight loss, what you are actually trying to achieve is fat loss. Second, focus on the essentials: eating right and eating on time. Fat loss, remember, just happens. Once you follow the easy to understand and surprisingly easy to practice principles, you will notice that you feel different in as little as two weeks, You will-get much more intuitive towards food, sleep better and feel much more energetic.
In about three months you will see visible changes and drop a couple of sizes in clothes. Happy reading. I strongly believe that your diet has to be a representation of what you will be eating your entire life. It has to remain true to your genes, your likes and dislikes, your work life, your level of activity, and only then does it have a good chance of working. Can you lead a life where you have papaya or dudhi juice all day long? Diet is not starvation.
A diet has to achieve much more than weight loss, Weight loss, or rather fat loss, is just one of the many wonderful side effects of changing your lifestyle. Dieting that has only weight loss as its primary goal is a failure even before you go on it. You are glad to be back home; and within four days of being back home you become healthy read fat again. Fortunately, she was a compassionate socialite. Which means that the next day you eat very little or nothing and workout extra so that you can burn off everything you ate the previous night.
The crime: overeating. Punishment: deprivation of food. We all overeat sometimes. So what? Fill it, shut it, forget it. Just get back to your normal workout and eating pattern from the next day. And give yourself more space than this. Just get on with life. Just like if you sleep with somebody other than your partner you still get on with married life the next day, right? I love this one. So first you accept that everything you have fed your body is toxic, then you become a saint for a week and detox.
And how? Using juices of course. And to punish yourself for being fat you use the yuckiest vegetables and make juices out of them: karela, dudhi, turiya, etc. You gulp them down with the bravery of a Kargil war soldier. Real life example: Kareena once related a sad incident to me. A friend of hers was desperate to lose weight. But by that time her friend was sobbing uncontrollably, She had lost her weight but she had lost her energy and power of reasoning too. And why not?
For the last week she had been on a diet of 4 glasses of dudhi juice and 3 oranges a day. But nothing could deter her from this detox diet. The next day the concerned mother called Bebo and asked her to give her daughter her diet secret.
Real life example: One of my clients before she met me visited a well known naturopath. The naturopath was popular because everything she recommended was from your kitchen. Of course there was no need to workout. This is always sold as a special attraction. I think the whole plan is to keep clients dull and lazy. The detox diet consisted of methi seeds and some kaju draksh soaked overnight and eaten first thing in the morning, followed by 2 figs, 2 walnuts, 2 pistas and an apple.
Lunch was salad and a glass of buttermilk. Dinner was soup anda glass of milk with 4 different dried fruits. Mind you, not in the mixer but hand ground. So do you feel better or do you feel like the peel of a soaked almond? So take my word for this: detox, like all other extreme diets, is a sham. People who have put their bodies through this torture think of themselves as incapable of losing weight. Instead of understanding how much the diet has damaged their system from within they think they are not disciplined because post crash diet the body goes in a tizzy, demanding calorie rich food , so they deserve to be fat!
The point is to never regain the weight you have lost. For this to happen you have to understand how your body works and show the commitment to eat the right food at the right time.
This is going to be the major focus of this book. She had a supportive husband and 2 children, 3 years and 8 months old respectively. So she looked at her life and decided that the only area she was lacking in was a good body. She lost all her weight, well most of it: 16 kilos in 6 months. Success story? Well, not quite. Her friends who met her after all this time looked at her and asked why she looked so dull. Her facial skin underwent a huge change, turned a few shades darker and pigmented in a few places, her nails chipped as she tried to open the zip of her Jimmy Choo, and her hair looked dry and coarse in spite of a 2 week hair spa at one of the best salons in Bandra.
She had also developed a little lump in her breast thankfully non-malignant. The banker had an analytical mind and was from one of the best business schools in India. Nicotine and marijuana are herbal too. Get the advise of a qualified ayurvedacharya or vaidya before popping pills or swallowing syrups.
Ayurveda is a very complex science and it takes more than a lifetime to decipher it. Finding a genuine ayurvedic doctor or vaidya in India is challenging enough; if you live abroad it is going to be next to impossible. I was once served puri, uncooked dal and a distorted version of khichdi as an ayurvedic meal by a high-end New York city yoga centre.
What went wrong with my banker was that she worked out too much, ate too little and took herbal pills which altered her hormonal balance and thyroid levels. She asked questions about proteins, vitamins, minerals but never once doubted the authenticity of the herbal products. Tip: carry a list of your questions and a pen or pencil with you. Tick off all questions as they get answered.
He just wanted to talk! The receptionist wanted to check if I was ok with this. Was this just a ploy to line maaro me? I just want you to look at me.
He looked like he was Then, he took out a Bombay Times paper cutting from his pocket. He looked like a super star in the pic as compared to what he looked like in reality. He was regarded as an inspiration to all the other clients at the centre, I was made aware, and the weight loss chain was flying him to Delhi to inaugurate their new franchise and hosting him at a five star hotel!
But what did he want from me? This was the first time a client had asked to strip in front of me. Having been in the fitness industry for over three years I was used to people describing their bodies, sex life, toilet rendezvous, etc in detail to me, but this was a first.
Out fell his stomach, towards his knees. I managed to mask my emotions but I 22 felt disgust and sympathy for him at the same time, and with alarming intensity. What had this man done and why? I am making very good money in my business and I want to remarry because my son needs a mother.
So he paid over a lakh at the weight loss centre and enrolled ina 6 month programme where all he had to do was lie down on a table for 20 to 30 minutes daily while painless electric currents worked on him, and go on a crash diet where he ate barely anything the whole day: channa, buttermilk and some dal. Then the centre suggested another programme: using firming gels for his belly.
But after spending close to half a lakh for the gels and massage therapy, his stomach still sagged. I have never been so thin all my life, so why do you think I am not looking great after such — successful weight loss? For which the centre had an oil and massage programme of course, and a weaving programme too: he had signed up for the oil and massage programme already.
I gave him a lecture on how he had lost all his lean body weight. You must start training with weights to rebuild lost muscle and bones. Of course you will need to go very slow. The diet plan that I put you on will be very different from what you have been following and will make you gain some weight.
Are you ok with that? Yeah but A week later my receptionist told me that the man had called to cancel his appointment. He went for a walk yesterday morning, tripped over a speed breaker, fell down, and suffered multiple fractures on his arm. The combined effect of it all was that just tripping over a speed breaker, which at worst should have bruised his arm, left him with multiple fractures. Where is the bravery in losing weight?
People with diarrhoea lose weight. In fact the bigger the disease the faster the weight loss. Recause we think that weight loss will make us happy, but we feel only frustrated and older not wiser at the end of yet another extreme diet, it comes with a heightened sense of victimisation and betrayal.
We have lost our muscle and bone density, and our fat weight is higher than what it was when we went on the diet. A lot of dieticians are popular because they guarantee weight loss without any exercise. So cool na? And some advertisements even top that. No diet, no exercise, no pills, only weight loss! I think the same about no exercise, no diet, no pills, only weight loss ads.
Any programme which discourages you from exercising is worthless. Being on a diet might help you lose weight, but without exercise we lose our muscles and bone density, And loss of bone density and muscle is ageing. The human body is designed for continuous activity. The least we can do is give it 30 to 45 minutes of exercise for 3 days a week to keep it in good shape and condition.
The body works on one basic principle: use it or lose it. Humans were born with a tail remember? We lost our tail because we never used it. I hated maths in school. But loved one word: corollary. Really think so? People are always so much smarter about their cars than their bodies. So, exercise is a part of adopting a better lifestyle but it is NOT an alternative to eating right.
In fact the more people get committed to working out, the more they usually care about how to get the right nutrients to their body. When you start eating healthy and exercising regularly, you will initially see a drop in your body fat but not as much in your weight. However, when you crash diet, you lose a lot of weight because your lean body weight comes down while your fat body weight remains the same, and sometimes actually increases.
Fat occupies a lot of volume on the body and weighs very little. Muscle, is denser, so it occupies much less space but will weigh a lot.
Compare fat to 1 kilo cotton and muscle to 1 kilo iron. Can you see what I am saying? Same weight but big difference in their volume or the space they occupy. So stop holding your body for ransom on the weighing scale. Why do you need to know how much you weigh? It is no indicator of health or fitness levels. I think the same about no exercise; no diet, no pills, only weight loss ads.
Being on a diet might help you lose weight, but without exercise we lose our muscles and bone density. And loss of bone density and muscle is ageing. So, exercise is a part of adopting a better lifestyle but it is NOT an alternative to eating right, In fact the more people get committed to working out, the more they usually care about how to get the right nutrients to their body. The lean body weight is the weight of your bones and muscles. The fat weight is exactly what it says it is.
Never look at the weighing scales and judge your health. The thing to look at is the fat weight and how much fat there is in your body, ie the fat percentage rather than your total body weight. Serena Williams, for example, might have a high body weight because of her high lean body weight but has a very low fat percentage.
The person with high fat percentage will look flabby and weak while the one with low fat percentage will look lean and toned. Measuring body composition Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry, DXA previously known as DEXA , is a great way to measure body composition though this was never its original purpose. It will not just tell you how much body fat you carry, but also the density of your bones 28 very important to know the conditions of your bones if you want to lead a pain free life and wish to look toned and age gracefully.
DXA scans are available at most multi specialty hospitals or investigation clinics. All machines have an inherent error and need to be calibrated regularly. So, make sure you measure yourself on the same machine every time or at least one made by the same manufacturer to account for mechanical errors, if any. Smart, articulate, sensitive, nose pierced, long bandhani skirt with a noodle strap top, flabby arms hidden under a stole a walking Fab India advertisement and thick kohl around her sparkling eyes to take attention away from the chubby cheeks.
I always thank. For the last three months all that I have been eating is papaya in the morning, salad and egg white for lunch, chicken breast and soup for dinner. So I am neck deep in shit. This is my big daddy of all exhibitions and look at me. Thankfully not loudly.
But my weight has not moved, not even by grams. What do you say to somebody who is so angry and frustrated with her diet and herself? Anything that you can say is wrong and hopelessly inappropriate.
I put my hands on her shoulders. Some of my buyers and friends recommended high protein so I went on it ya, she said controlling the tears now and doing a damn good job of it. Everybody laughed. Tension eased. Thank God.
Doing random things with food and dieting will always backfire. People who really care about the diet they are on will always ask you to consult their nutritionist or dietician. Diets needs to be personalised and customised to your needs, fitness levels, exercise frequency, profession, climate, and your tastes in food. What this book aims for is to try and take your present day eating habits and improve them: you are going to have to create your own diet plan.
All I'll do is give you the few ground rules to help you through it. Shit, I was sure you would ask. Sheepishly, she pulled the bag out from behind the sofa. It was overflowing with all the fat free, low fat, sugar free things in the world.
Low fat chips of all varieties; soy, nachni, methi, you name it. Baked chaklis, sugar free drinks aerated and non aerated. Why these are good of course.
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