Monday, March 1, 2010

Lose your weight

I don't know how many people are interested in losing weight but I have been longing for it since forever it seems. I recently picked up the book "Don't lose your mind, lose your weight" by Rutuja Diwekar (Kareena's "size zero" is lot to do with her). In this book, she shatters many myths related to weight loss and I found the content quite crisp with adequate information to back it up.

She has very effectively communicated why things like extreme diets, detox diets or any other form of fad things don't work. She advises to eat a balanced meal and couple it with regular exercise.

The crux of her advice comes down to following four principle that one should incorporate it in lifestyle:
1. Eat something in first ten minutes of waking up but strictly avoid tea or coffee as the first thing in the day.
2. Eat every two to three hours in the day in smaller portions.
3. Eating habits should be in proportion to levels of activity.
4. Maintain a gap of at least two hours in your last meal and bed time.

The book has no literary value but it is high on knowledge which is expected from a fitness expert. I must add that the book startled me with some forthright expressions, also time and again she presents some analogies from completely unrelated domains that again surprisingly keep you intrigued. She has written down many of her client interactions which you definitely can relate to people around you and her sharp remarks, leave a chuckle on your face.

There is loads of more information available in the book on different kinds of food, nutrients needed by body. All in all it is a very educative yet fun to read, now I must follow it to see how effective it is :-).

1 comment:

  1. Received following in email, storing/sharing here:

    forget these books - return to the basics

    1. income - expenditure = savings
    where income == calories consumed
    expenditure == calories burnt
    savings == weight gained

    2. 70% of your body is water
    effectively means to store a 30 gms of fat you will also have to store 70gms of water or you'll be 100gms heavier. [approx]

    3. 3500Kcal == 1lb of weight
    effectively means 500KCal less per day from your existing intake every day will mean 1lb less every week.

    4. your body kind of adjusts to 3 so the loss won't be linear.

    5. increase the BMR of your body by light exercise interspersed throughout the day to increase the expenditure part to counter 4

    have fun ...


    eat well and die happy!

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