Rujuta Diwekar's Blog, page 5

Begin with a bang and then fizzle out without a whisper. Does that sound like the last grand diet/ exercise plan that you went on? If yes (sheepishly or wholeheartedly or not really), read on –
The Fettle Club, one of my initiatives to keep my clients focussed and informed about their food, fitness and lifestyle will be launched by Kareena Kapoor on the 21st Feb, 2010.  She will be sharing her insights on what needs to be done to stay on course with your fitness goals through busy schedules...

1) Owning a weighing scaleYou don't need a weighing scale to reflect your body state. Instead of depending on a machine to tell you how you are doing, start depending on yourself & go by how you are feeling. If you feel good, you're on the right track, if not then you need to re-look at what you are doing!
2) Thinking that you are meant to eat non-tasty food or foods that you don't like while you are on a diet. We have been conditioned to believe that going on so-called 'diet' means having...

Well here's the irony. As we advance in technology and get wireless everywhere we get clueless about one of the basic fountains of human life – sex. The faster the pace of life gets, the faster the Pizza guy rings your bell, the slower your sex life gets. See the connection? No? Boy! You are slower than I thought.
Alright, lets start from the beginning. Food, sleep, self preservation and sex are the primitive fountains of human life according to our scriptures. So under doing or over doing any...

Diwali time. PARTY time.
Too many parties, too many late nights, too much taash, too much food.. blah blah.. 'So does that mean that I will gain my weight?' 'Or I am too stressed because of Diwali because I HAVE to eat.' OR 'What should I do if I over ate last night at my party?' Its the season for all these questions and confusion.
We resist and resist food some more only to give in some hours later and eat with a vengeance. Of course if you eat too late any amount of food you eat or don't...

I have been asked, get asked, and will be asked till (I tell myself) I hang my boots. Sometimes it's asked out of curiosity, sometimes out of a serious doubt, at times to just check if I have a bias and at other times to plain look for an escape.

Well here's my boring, practised but honest answer – Exercise & diet are like the two sides of the same coin. To ask me to choose which is more important/ effective/result oriented is like asking a mother to choose the favourite between her two c

‘Diet? – I cant go on one! I cant starve! I can do any amount of diet till 5pm after that I am a full toss!’ Not eating at all, eating too little, eating with way too many restrictions, not eating “normal” khana and everything on the same lines is our perception of diet and dieting.
I am just back from Johar valley in Uttarakhand and out there diet is something else! Johar valley was one of the major Indo – Tibet trade routes now deserted after the Indo- China war but beautiful nevertheless.
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As I set off for another trek to the Himalaya, I ask myself what is it that I keep going back to? The flower filled valleys (Most Himalayan valleys are valleys of flowers. Infact the “valley of flowers” now has lesser flowers thanks to the high tourist inflow), the majestic snow covered peaks, the glacial streams or the congenial natives?

Or is it the stories? Stories as surreal as the mighty peaks at dawn, as beautiful as the flower laden valleys, as innocent as the rhododendron in early Mar

‘Hey, I need to buy a book on the GSB  rituals’, thought my friend aloud as both of us sipped on nariyal pani. Helllo! Get off it!! I gestured with an animated facial expression.

Sarika, my friend was on a guilt trip. A haryanavi married into an orthodox south Indian Brahmin family, she was feeling guilty (not again ya) because her husband had (out of compassion) carried out a north Indian ritual (at her parent’s place) which was not in accordance to his birth in the GSB community. A casual re

Check out the videos of the launch of my book 'Dont lose your mind, lose your weight' by Kareena Kapoor at JW Marriot, Juhu, 14th Feb 2009.

http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/broadband/video/Parties-and-Events/bX3yh512/3/Kareena-s-Diet-Guru-Reveals-Size-O-Secrets.html

CNN-IBN video: http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/85409/size-zero-secret-out-kareena-launches-fitness-book.html

Times now video: http://www.timesnow.tv/frmVideoDialog.aspx?VName=NV29487.wmv



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Diet stories never fail to totally shock me. The latest one I heard: eat as many chewing gums as you want but don’t eat food. Now why would somebody do this kind of diet aatyachar? For results, of course. The result? Weight loss, my dear. And may I add – ‘guaranteed’.
Only eating biscuits that are low fat and have added fiber, replacing sugar with sweeteners, dinners that are only soup and salad, gulping down juices, smoking endlessly, 12 cups of coffee a day, Atkins, South beach, cabbage soup; w