Let's not be slaves of some random survey..

Every now and then we come across some survey findings in newspapers, health magazines or internet. One time the surveys would say that it is sin to eat egg and after a decade or so , they will tell a different story singing tunes about eggs.

The other day I was reading about the desi ghee(clarified butter) survey which states that the our humble ghee is not as much villain as it has been made out to be in past few years. In fact it is recommended that we should have at least a spoon of ghee everyday .

Similar is the case with rice. One of the headings in health magazine  was screaming..."Rice may be not that bad after all". Poor rice is the first thing to get crossed from diet when it comes to healthy eating.

Antioxidants is the another wave people are riding on. There is a lot of talks doing rounds about them. No doubt they are good for health and we start thinking that if something is good for us we have a liberty of taking it in abundance but that is not the case. Now many journals say that too many of them can cause cancer.

We should not become slaves of whims or fancies of these surveys. Everything in moderation is perfect be it eating eggs , enjoying sweets or eating scrumptious ice creams.Extreme of everything is bad and our body knows the best. If you are honest to yourself , you will know where you are faltering because you body will start showing that.

It's just a matter of getting into the middle of spectrum and not to be on the extreme side in life.

Eat ,eat eat but do not forget the principle of moderation! After all healthy body and healthy mind is a team work of various food items.

 Give due respect to each and every item !

Sustaining exercise regime....elusive!

Currently I have taken fancy to brisk walking in the morning.It has started with the bang and lots of promises done to myself by myself  as done by lot many  people like me.Its been a month now and fortunately I am sticking to my promises.But how long ? A very big question! Exercise is an activity which solely depends upon self motivation and needless to say self motivation is quite an elusive area .

While doing my morning walk I was just thinking that people can be  categorized in three classes.

• First category of people always feel motivated and take their regime quite seriously and somehow miraculously continue to stick to their routine.
• Second category is on-off people.These guys start with the bang and then they go into hibernation.After a while they will spring up again of course after piling on weight  and so on so forth.The on off sequence goes on and on. 
• Third category belongs to the elite class who just keep accumulating all the possible gym equipment , fancy gym gear but somehow cannot make them to work.Things bought by them are either used by their friends or relatives and of course free of cost. I don't call this category  benevolent for nothing.

I am fortunate to have got face to face with last two categories. Third one goes hands down to my husband.An orphaned bicycle ,a lonely never used tennis racquet ,erstwhile cross trainer(now used for hanging clothes) are few of the items from his treasure. Second category belongs to me.  As per  the
 characteristics of citizens of my class, I have been taking to exercising every now and then for the past two years but all in vain and my latest thing is walking. Walk walk walk ....... this is my mantra these days.I have not felt demotivated even for once in last one month so I think have found peace with myself .Lets see how long can I stick to this and gradually move into first category of people.Amen!

As you finish reading this post  you must have found your category.What is your category ?

Conscious eating - inexpensive way to fight flab

Few days back I stumbled upon an article with quite a thought provoking heading - "A moment on lips, lifetime on hips". It said that whatever we eat, it just takes three hours to get it converted into fat tissues in your body.

Though I am not a part of diet police (something like fashion police ;) ) but i do believe that one need not starve oneself from all the temptations, it's just a matter of getting little conscious in the quantity of what we are eating and when we are eating. Though this is the universal truth and common sense but we all know how rare common sense is :).

We don't even realise that a single plate of humble bhelpuri(so called low fat snack) garnished with peanuts  can give us half of our daily required calories. And then by end of day, one just says .....today I just had bhelpuri and no lunch! Villains like bhelpuris exist in ample around us. We don't have to defriend them but just have to control the frequency of meeting them :). Aim should be to restrict the entry of such villains in house. For me as soon as I get back from office, all of sudden I start feeling very very hungry and then my hand just goes into one of the drawers/containers of kitchen and I devour whatever I can get  my hands on. To prevent this I have started keeping healthy alternatives like bananas, almonds or may be good old pal milk in kitchen. Easier said than done but I am trying !


Maintaining a log of what you eat is something which gives you control.You might have to maintain it physically initially but after a while your mind gets tuned to it and you can maintain the virtual log in your brain. To help you there are sites like http://caloriecount.about.com/, http://www.livestrong.com/ and many other. These will help you maintaining the log and you can actually track your progress.

As they say everything has it's pros and cons.When people start following calorie count specific sites, they start to count calories in every damn thing. On lunch tables they would start ranting about the calories contents of each and every thing. As obvious they become a laughing stock:-) So guys you have to strike a balance! Count the calories for you and not for others :-)

Happy calorie counting ...and stop eating as if there will be no tomorrow.