My Diary

Managing stress and home and erratic work hours can sometimes spell disaster to your health. Enough was discussed on this blog on weight loss but this time problem at hand was more grim. Coming to Hyderabad spelt dooom to my exercise and gym and i gathered pounds. The climate forced me to gorge on rice, idli and i added no activity to the whole scenario and ended up more than i am used to being. At 6.30 pm my office boy would serve some mouth watering goodies n famished me would go weak in the knees. Before the word go, the veg roll, chips and juice were gone. I was so damn stressed for last 1 year, with the new work profile that i ignored the ever expanding waistline and the associated tiredness and pains. I frequently fell ill also. Until i looked at the pics of a recent vacation in hubby's camera and since then there has not been any looking back. 1. I am exersing 4 times a week and 2 days suryanamaskaar 2. I am constantly following websites on weightloss n fitness so that i ...

This post was written in July and most of what is written holds true even today. Back in June, I had some time off and went to visit hubby who is on a sabbatical and studying. I use my holidays to eat, sleep and have fun, try new local cuisines, soak in the local life! I did all the above but also exercised a lot of restraint and used the gym at least 5 days a week, enjoyed the college life again, evening walks in the beautiful campus which is green and massive. The evening visits to the wonderful juice shop were awesome. Fresh air and delicious juice. My daughter particularly loved her Mango shake and adults oscillated between pomegranate, mausambi, watermelon etc. Quick fitness updates: 1. Weigh about 65 kgs. Yes I have lost close to 10 kgs ladies. Update: Been at this weight for like 2 months now. 2. I have partially quit milk, sugar, and to compensate for my daily calcium needs have started a bowl of curd instead. This curd is not made of skimmed milk. Quitting sugar is par...

Do you go to pizza hut and start looking for a salad, without a mayonnaise dressing. Well, I did just that! When my family wanted to check out the new pizza in town, I tried to woo them to something healthier, maybe southindian- where I could do with idlis, maybe here, maybe there, but no not pizza hut, when I had spent a good ten mins preening in front of the mirror, marveling at my new waist. Of course, I had just a tiny a slice of pizza later that evening, but it made me realize that I indeed have a strong will power, I took time enjoying my salad which was really nice. It was a mix of exotic vegetables with a predominant oregano and lemon flavor. Only gripe it was a li'l more salty than required. It took me some time to write this particular diary, coz a lot was happening. I gained half a kg , lost it back, gained more gyaan on my metabolism, fitness and here I am posting how the very busy working mom is trying to stay bang on with her fitness regime. Brief note about self:...

Most of us take fitness for granted, we feel it is important to take a gym membership, it is important to take resolutions to walk, run, skip the rope etc. but to have health incorporated in our lifestyles is often overlooked. While staying with my parents for the past month, I realized that sooner or later we are all going to be old and will be lucky, if, by that age we don’t have diabetes, heart ailments etc. My parents have both. Now, since genes play a part in the inheritance of diseases….hahahaha, it becomes utmost important that HEALTH IS ON THE AGENDA MOST TIMES. Make it a priority and a ‘way of life’. I had been very fit some 4 years back, and had worked very hard to lose weight and had managed to keep it that way. As a result even after my daughter was born I was back to my original weight within few months. But as time passed I conveniently forgot all about this fitness talk. When my weight started piling up I found a great excuse in ‘ there’s hardly any time for workout’. ...