Book - "Eat. Delete" By Nutrition Expert Pooja Makhija

Trying to lose weight? Running around in circles where you Lose. Gain. Lose. Gain. No wonder it's difficult to stay in shape. Because circles go on and on. But what if weight gain is just a symptom? A symptom not only of how we eat food, but how we treat food? A symptom not only of how we cook food, but how we look at food? What if losing weight doesn't begin with what's on your plate but with what's on your mind? For the first time in India, a leading nutritionist has worked with psychologists to give you a combined mind-body weight loss solution. Figure out not just what to eat, but also why you eat the way you do

Nutritionist Pooja Makhija says training your mind is the first step to weight loss. Here's an excerpt from her new book "Eat. Delete" - BUY NOW >> [Rs 129/- Cash on Delivery]

There are no quick-fixes for a fitter you. Well-known nutritionist Pooja Makhija banks on this simple truth in her book eat.delete, and explains why the a good weight-loss programme doesn't begin with what's on your plate, but with what's in your mind.

Following is an excerpt from a chapter titled 'Understanding Willpower':

'I want to lose weight but I don't have the willpower'
If you think willpower is like a red-carpet event that admits only a select few, you couldn't be more wrong. Willpower is like love, compassion or wisdom. We all have it. Everyone's invited. Before you throw your hands up in the air and simply give up on your body, ask yourself this:

How long did it take you to drive a car? How long did it take you to ride a bicycle? How long did it take you to master a new gadget?

Remember when you got your first cell-phone? Sending SMSes were a pain in the neck, right? You typed slowly, got half the spellings wrong, and became best friends with the delete button. After a week or two, it was a whole lot easier. Today you can SMS in your sleep.

For the most part, willpower is a skill. It has to be strengthened. You have to keep practising. With every no you say to that gulab jamun, it becomes easier to say no the second time around. Or the fourth. The more you say yes to the pakodas being passed around, the harder it'll be to say no the next time. It's as simple as that.

But if it's so simple, why is it so hard?
To answer this question we must first understand how the human brain forms a habit. Habits start off as thoughts in your mind.

These thoughts set off a chain reaction within your body, which leads you to act on that thought. And what provides you with the ability to translate thoughts into action? That job is done with the help of nerve cells in your body, also called neurons.

Here's how it works: If you're looking at chocolate mousse for the first time in your life and are thinking about eating it, the neurons in your brain send information to the neurons in your spinal cord which in turn send information to the neurons in your hand, which takes a spoonful and puts it in your mouth.

From the moment you think of it to the moment you physically pick up the food and eat it, this chain of neurons works to translate your thought into action. This chain of neurons is called a neural pathway and right from opening the door to typing on your keyboard, every action you perform has a neural pathway of its own.

If you give in to the temptation of eating chocolate mousse the first time you see it, it establishes a weak neural pathway. But if you eat chocolate mousse every time you see it, the neural pathway gets stronger. With enough repetitions, eating chocolate mousse at sight becomes more and more 'automatic' and a habit is born. In other words, you develop a habit when the same neural pathway is used over and over again. In some cases, it takes just 10 days to form a habit; in other cases it takes longer. Whether it's skipping breakfast or eating dessert after every meal, when you've formed a habit that has made you 10, 20 or 30 kilos overweight, you have developed a strong neural pathway.

Now, imagine a weak neural pathway as a piece of string and a strong neural pathway as a piece of rope - which one is easier to 'break'? In other words, just as your mother told you, old habits die hard. That's why it can sometimes be hard for us to build our willpower.

But you're in luck. Good habits or bad ones, your brain is wired to make new habits all the time! The brain wants to make habits because any habit is 'automatic' behaviour. And automatic behaviour allows the brain to pay attention to more complex functions. So, whether you like it or not, when you repeat the same behaviour often enough, it becomes part of you. Can you imagine a life where your healthy habits are hard to break? Stay healthy long enough, and you won't have to imagine any more.

- An excerpt from Eat.Delete: The Anti-Quick Fix Approach by Pooja Makhija

About the Author
Nutritionist to the stars and a devoted mother of two, Pooja Makhija is one of India's leading experts on nutrition and has counselled over 15,000 clients. Pooja never fails to be amazed by the power of nutrition and has witnessed time and again how something as simple as understanding the importance of food can bring about huge, transformational changes in people's lives. Pooja has recently launched her own wellbeing clinic, Nourish, and she works and lives in Mumbai. This is her first book.

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Lara Launches 'Prenatal Yoga With Lara Dutta' DVD For Yoga During Pregnancy

The yummy mummy Lara Dutta recently launched her Prenatal Yoga DVD. The program 'Prenatal Yoga With Lara Dutta' has been conceived and developed by Lara who an avid yoga practitioner and Tonia Clark - an expert Prenatal Yoga instructor.

Prenatal Yoga is a powerful tool for to-be Mothers. It caters to the need of a pregnant woman as her body undergoes various changes during this period. In the prenatal program a pregnant women utilizes easy Asanas and positions that naturally create more space within the womb for the growing baby.
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Wholistic in it's approach, Lara Dutta's Prenatal Yoga program run you through the relevance and benefits of prenatal yoga and then takes you through a 'do-it-along' 30 minute yoga routine, guided meditation series and labour oriented endurance exercises called keep-ups.

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Confessions of a Serial Dieter by Kalli Purie

A self-confessed serial dieter KALLI PURIE's weight loss epiphany came when she tipped the scales at 103 kilos and realised that she didn’t have the energy to keep up with her two young children. Realising that she had been putting off her life, while she had been putting on the weight, she decided it was time to go on a diet. Her Book "Confessions of a Serial Dieter" is her weight loss memoir

It has taken her years of therapy, diets, workouts, trainers and dieticians to get hold of her life and face her weight. Her two deliciously edible kids are the only treat she is allowed. Though she has achieved many things as an alumni of Modern School, a graduate from Oxford University and a media professional, nothing has brought her more joy than shedding half her weight. She currently lives in New Delhi and is on a new diet.

Kalli who has struggled with her weight since childhood, has finally found a weight she is happy with. Mostly. The diets featured in her book "Confessions of a Serial Dieter" are structured rather like episodes in her life, full of characters, anecdotes and juicy nuggets of weight wisdom from surya namaskars set to Bollywood beats to drastic coconut water diets, from a dark experiment with bulimia to a love affair with the self-concocted champagne diet. The story of weight lost and a life gained, Confessions of a Serial Dieter will make you believe you can do it, whether its losing those stubborn last three kilos or chasing your dream! - Buy The Book Now >>

Pictures of Kalli Purie Before and After Her Diet Program

Kalli’s sole qualification to write the book is that she has “been in the fat suit". "The book is told from an emotional point of view; from a dieter’s point of view,” says Kalli, adding that her book is a first-person account. “Fat people don’t think of themselves as fat,” says Kalli Purie, who allows herself to eat foods like French Fries, pizzas and jalebis only once a year.

Lifestyle battle:

The mother of two says that living in any of the metros doesn’t make healthy lifestyle choices easier. “What choice do we have, but to be closet dieters! We are continually assaulted by processed foods and ‘lazy entertainment’,” says Kalli, referring to options like going out for a dinner or a movie; choices that are usually defined or restricted by food. “I ask my friends to join me for a walk instead.”

Dear diary

Writing the book "Confessions of a Serial Dieter" proved to be a cathartic experience for Kalli, who says that her biggest revelation during the experience was the realisation that, “Everyone who is thin, is working on it. There is a diet out there for everyone; you have to find what works for you. This is what I did,” she says.

“Finding your ‘happy weight’ is like finding your soul mate. It takes time. I found my soul mate easily, but it took time for me to find my ‘happy weight’,” she signs off with a laugh.

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Fitness Regime For New Mums - No Vigorous Workouts After Child Birth

What is the right way to lose post-pregnancy weight?: Fitness experts suggest a slower regimen for mothers as pushing themselves too hard could impact them as well as the babies

It was an unfortunate photograph of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan coming out of a party that sparked off a national debate on celebrities and post-pregnancy weight like never before. If Victoria Beckham and Malaika Arora Khan could get back to shape in less than a couple of months, what was stopping Aishwarya from doing the same? Opinions ranged from bitchy to ridiculous and the topic itself has raised a number of questions. The most important being, just what is the right way to lose post-pregnancy weight?

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Dr Kishore Kumar, neonatologist and CEO of Cloud Nine hospitals, is quick to caution. “The basic rule of post-weight pregnancy is it depends largely on genetics – how much weight you gain, how quickly you can lose it of if you will ever lose it. On an average, a woman gains about 10 kilos of weight during pregnancy, which is transient fat or as we know it, post-pregnancy weight. The presence of fat is very important for a new mother because she has to breast-feed. So this whole concept of losing weight in a month’s time is not very ideal in general if you are going on crash diets and vigorous exercise, which was not part of your lifestyle before. I have had a mother who swam till the last day of her pregnancy and went back into the water almost immediately after giving birth. But she had been a swimmer all her life,” he says.

Dr Gautami N, a gynaecologist, says: “Keep your weight constant at least for the first six months after your pregnancy because your body needs to adjust to the change of not having to supply nutrients to a life growing within. Unlike the women in the West, our genetic make-up is different, as is our diet. We need to work around that. If you have had a very active lifestyle before and during your pregnancy, you can go back to exercising after the birth of the baby. Just don’t do strenuous exercises that you have never done before because it will have an adverse effect on your system,” she says.

Fitness experts too recommend a slower regimen for mothers. “It is not vigorous cardios and weights and Pilates that we recommend immediately. New mothers have already gone through delivering a baby, so straining the body further is not recommended. The body needs to heal. For the first three months at least, I would recommend you keep it simple. Do 20 minutes on the treadmill on an even speed. Even if you do weights, keep it very light. Most women also do Kegel (pelvic) exercises after giving birth; you can supplement it with some calming yoga as well. At the end of the day, don’t push your body,” says fitness expert Arab Khan.

A driving reason for women to lose their post-pregnancy weight is largely psychological too. “We live in a visual world today where appearances are paramount. Previously we thought of our mothers as cuddly, warm and round. Today, motherhood is not a good enough reason to be out of shape, even if you have genuine medical reason for it. It does not help when you see a Karishma Kapoor, a mother of two, flaunt her toned body and slim thigh on the silver screen. But the truth is, stretch marks, a sagging bustline and jelly belly is the reality many mothers live with. Accept the fact that our body may not go back to college days. Embrace the truth that not all of us can be Demi Moore. It helps,” says Mamtha Shetty, a city-based psychologist.

But what happens when you push the envelope on the post-pregnancy weight loss? The repercussions are twofold – physiological and psychological. Dr Kishore says: “If you insist on a dramatic weight loss in a very short time, then there is a very diverse effect on your body. It affects the production of breast milk in a woman, which adversely affects the baby’s health. The mother herself increases the risk of osteoporosis,” he says.

“Depression is a very serious risk for a new mother who has to tend to the needs of a newborn baby and you will not be able to enjoy motherhood. We don’t need science to tell us what it does to a baby to be deprived of maternal love in its early days,” says Namrata Gupta, another city-based psychologist.

Here's How Arjun Kapoor Lost 50 Kgs in Four Years

Actor Arjun Kapoor says he still feels overweight in his mind. He bares his vulnerabilities in an account of how he lost 50 kilos in four years

When you are touted to be the next big star, the pressure to look good never ebbs. So what if Arjun Kapoor has lost 50 kilos in the past four years. Arjun says, “It’s a thankless profession in that sense.” Sitting in a jeans and a black shirt, you’d never think that this is the same obese industry-kid who hardly ever made any social appearances. Here he is confident, fielding questions with his co-star Parineeti Chopra like he was born to be on camera. The journey to reach here has been long, and treacherous, with booby traps full of food all around. He lets us in on to how he found a way around the ambushes:

Arjun Kapoor After Weight Loss

Arjun Kapoor Befor Weight Loss

The start

Most people think, aaj diet shuru kiya, kal patla bana. You can lose 10 kilos in 30 days if you don’t eat, but you are losing muscle. You can put that weight back on with five days of overeating. I realised early on that it’s not about a short term goal. I had to lose 50 kilos. So I had to make peace with the fact that it’s not going to happen overnight.

Salmanbhai [Khan] inspired me. He is the one who told me that I had acting talent in me, that I should not squander it just because I am this big lard of fat. He doesn’t miss going to the gym regardless of what his timings are. He works out early in the morning without fail. Initially, I used to work out a lot with him, cycle from his house to film city. When you live with a person who is so aware of his body, you get inspired.

I suppose the decision to lose weight happened when I decided to make acting a profession. Ultimately, 50 kilos is just a number. If I lost 40 and I looked as lean, then I’d be happy with it. I still want to lose five more.

When you are so overweight, your body responds to any kind of physical activity. First, your body drops the water. And you drop the weight like this (snaps his fingers). In the first month I lost about 10 to 11 kilos. It was kind of shocking initially.

But then I was so happy that I had lost so much weight that I put on all of that by eating more. I didn’t lose weight consistently. I used to lose five then put on three, then lose some more and eat again. I was always working against myself.
  

Lifestyle change

Losing weight isn’t only about hitting the gym every day, or keeping a check on your diet. It is a combination of the two. I recognised that I have to make adjustments to my diet and if I ever overeat, I need to work it off in the gym.

You reduce the number of yellows you put in your eggs in the morning. I don’t have zero yolks. Because I think the gelatin makes your hair better. Also, it tastes bloody good. I’m a foodie at the end of the day, so I offset this with a workout.

I think diet is a trial and error process. I live on rice, but it bloats me up immediately, so I’ve replaced it with quinoa, the South American grain. It’s actually pure protein. You can put in more chicken too. Chilla is made of aata and that is also something I use. These are small things that go a long way when you realise how your body reacts to certain foodstuffs.
  

The bad days

When you start losing weight, it leads to many bad days. When you are sitting in front of the TV and realise that you are looking at these guys with six packs and they are ripped, you really don’t see yourself getting there. You have to keep the will power and fight through. There is only one person you can look at in the gym for inspiration and it’s yourself. Anybody’s reassurance will not matter if you aren’t mentally strong enough.

Gym bean

In the first year, with weights and cardio, I lost a lot of weight. But the fourth year was the toughest. I had to lose only five more kilos. That’s when I wanted to get my jaw line sorted, stomach as plain as possible. That’s where CrossFit came in. I started training under Deepesh Bhatt. When you stabilise yourself with your own core, then you can lift anything in the world.

You activate smaller muscles through CrossFit. I hear Hrithik Roshan does CrossFit in the morning and then does hardcore body building through the day. Now, I haven’t reached that level in the gym.
  

Eating and cheating

I would be lying if I say I don’t have a diet plan. I have one toast with four to six eggs. One or two yolks depending on how many eggs I’m having. If I train in the morning then I have a protein shake. I have lunch and am still trying to cut down on carbs. At home, I have dal, sabzi, and chicken. I also have either bajra ki roti which is more filling or two phulkas. In the afternoon, depends on where I am and what I’m up to, I nibble on some rubbish or the other. I love food and I like eating. If anyone offers me good food I tend to have some. But I can afford to because I know I am training that much. I tend to avoid meetha generally, but nowadays I realise even that has become difficult because I’m travelling so much. 

My dinner is as light as possible — just protein. Because I am a meat lover by nature, it’s easier to follow a protein-based diet. The evening time is the worst time in the day. Between lunch and dinner I am tempted by a million things. I tend to have a lot of black coffee. It keeps you feeling fresher and gives you a false high. I stopped liking milk in my coffee a long time ago.

Self-esteem

You obviously have self-esteem issues when you are fat, but I never let it bog me down. You deal with it internally. Then you hit McDonalds, have three burgers and you are happy again. I used to go to McDonalds, order three burgers, one strawberry milkshake, French fries and pack one burger for on my way home. I was a grumpy kid who hardly ever smiled and just wanted to make films.

Now that I’ve lost weight I am more conscious of my weight than before. If I look at pictures when I was fat, I just smile. But when I see the posters of my film, I think ‘S**t, I have put on weight, I was so thin back then.’ I don’t look at myself in the most positive light. That’s why I hate posing in front of the camera even now.
Find Here: Pictures of Arjun Kapoor before weight loss and after weight loss

Rujuta Diwekar States Some Health Benefits of Regular White Rice

Regular rice is much maligned and is fast being dropped in favour of its unpolished avatar. But are the charges valid? Sports nutritionist Rujuta Diwekar separates the grain from the husk

Rujuta Diwekar, Sports Nutritionist

The Chinese eat rice with every meal, breakfast included, and the average Chinese on the street is thin, if not skinny. In our country, however, we are getting skeptical about rice and yes, we are all getting fatter. We either give up rice or replace it with wheat or ‘brown’ rice. What is wrong with this approach?

Replacing rice with wheat is not a good idea since it means reducing your intake of amino acids (protein’s building blocks) and Vitamin B. As for brown rice, it has the outer layer (husk and bran) intact thereby making it high in fibre. Now, of course we want fibre but if your rice has more fibre than you can digest, brown rice will only cause indigestion. On the other hand, rice that emits blinding whiteness may not be the best source of nutrients either.

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Free Home Delivery - Cash on Delivery Thus, to get the best of both worlds, polish your rice to the extent that helps it retain its nutrients (proteins, Vitamin B and fibre) and looks brownish or reddish. Remove the outer bran but allow the rice grain to show off its brown/red strains. Don’t worry, this won’t compromise the taste and yes, you can eat basmati rice with the brown/red strains as well.

The protein in this rice (red-rice or hand-polished rice) is absorbed much better by your body than in brown rice. It is also way easier to cook and digest as compared to brown rice. It is easy to digest, easy to absorb, easy to assimilate proteins from and easier on your excretory system too.

This is exactly how the farming community of India eats its rice.

In fact, Ayurveda uses ricebased diets in treating various imbalances in the body.

Dal-chawal is a nutritious meal, possessing the entire spectrum of amino acids, vitamins and minerals. It also accelerates fat burning. In fact, the essential amino acid methionine found predominantly in rice helps mobilise fat from the liver. As India is dominantly vegetarian, getting proteins from rice, especially the essential amino acid methionine and the conditionally essential amino acid (becomes essential under conditions of stress) tyrosine is crucial for us. Diabetics should also eat rice since they need these proteins.

Know that rice is not a bad thing. The bad thing is when we mindlessly decide if one thing is good for us and that if we do it a lot, it becomes only better. We do that with rice so often now.

A humble dal-chawal meal is so satiating that it makes you eat slower and improves your chances of eating the right amount (the cornerstones of fat loss or accelerated metabolism, good digestion and health itself).

Rice is auspicious in both China and India: the dead are offered rice to wish them good health for life outside their physical selves. It is sad then, that in India, even when we are still in our bodies, we make fads out of rice.

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