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Reenu - After |
I
have good news for you. You can lose 30kgs without any
machine, pill or powder but you have to learn to eat
healthily, walk daily, and drink plenty of water (2-3
ltrs). I would like to share with you the personal experience
of Reenu (name changed) who has followed this formula
for 10 months and lost 30kgs, averaging 3 kgs a month.
She started at 108 kgs and is now78kgs. She is a 21-year-old
college student who has done diet counselling with us
and has been very committed and consistent in following
all the rules and coming regularly for a weekly weight
check for the last 10 months. Reenu says she feels like
a new person.
So what did Reenu eat? There are 3 important principles
we need to understand and practice for weight reduction.
Strictly avoid eating Fatty Food. If you want to pull
out fat from your body you can’t be putting fatty
food into your body. You cannot touch chips, and fries,
snacks and sweets, nuts, pastries and pies, cookies
and cakes, no mayonnaise, butter, ghee, cheese, paneer
and rich red meats. Also you have to use only skimmed
milk.
Hey, but all the
yummy stuff is in this list. How can we live without
all this? Here’s the nice part, its not forever,
it’s only for a short period of time. One month
to lose 3 kgs. About 3 months to lose 10 and 10 months
to lose 30kgs. I myself have lost 25 kgs in a year.
What’s 3 months or 6 months or even a year in
your lifetime if you can be fit and beautiful at the
end of it. Just think you have an allergy to these foods
for a short period of time. Another good way to correlate
this is to think of the treatment for a broken leg.
If you fracture your leg there is only one single treatment,
i.e. you have to put it in a plaster cast. Terrible,
difficult, most inconvenient treatment but if I want
to walk again, I simply have to do it and bear it. Only
nice part is, it’s not a lifetime treatment but
a short-term treatment – 6-8 weeks. We have to
immobilize the leg, similarly, we have to immobilize
fatty food from going into our mouths for 90 days.
Here is a help line
– During these months I know it wont be easy,
your mouth will water, your eyes may water, but tell
yourself, “I have eaten all these goodies for
21 years, nothing will happen to me if I don’t
eat any of them for three months or even for a year.
When you finish your weight reduction you go into a
maintenance level where you are permitted to eat your
goodies again but with caution. You need to follow a
budget system and limit your self to 2 treats per week.
E.g. you may eat an ice-cream after lunch on Wednesday
and go out for biriyani on Saturday. If somebody offers
you a chocolate on Sunday you have to say “no,”
but you may eat the chocolate on Thursday and again
go out for Chinese on next Saturday. The secret is never
go on a fatty food eating binge from morning to evening
and don’t even eat your 2 treats on the same day.
If you have eaten your ice-cream and suddenly someone
calls you out for dinner that night, you have to be
very strict and eat no fatty food. If you have had your
biriyani today and are called out tomorrow, you have
to be strict tomorrow. It is 2 treats per week with
a gap of 2 or 3 days around each treat. This is the
art of maintaining weight. (Avoid overeating fatty foods
and then skipping meals to compensate and maintain weight.
Every time you skip a meal you are lowering your metabolic
rate and in the long run you will gain weight).
The second principle
is that you follow a balanced and healthy eating plan,
starting now and going on forever so that it becomes
a way of life. In this plan you never skip a meal, you
eat 3 balanced meals, which are divided as 40% breakfast
and 11am fruit, 40% lunch plus tea and 20% dinner. Every
meal must have a balance of carbohydrate and protein
foods and there has to be 2 fruits daily, 2 salads &
2 servings dhal/pulses (1 at lunch and 1 at dinner)
and 2-3 glasses milk/curd daily.
Thirdly, one needs
to eat plenty of fiber that comes as whole cereals,
atta bread, phulkas (dry roti) corn or wheat flakes,
bajra or jowar roti, ragi roti or ragi ball, raw salads
and fresh whole fruits (please avoid juices as they
lose the fiber). The fiber helps to make your body work
harder every time it has to be digested. Therefore you
spend more calories or burn stored fat even as you digest
your food, internal exercise is happening.
1.Avoid fatty food
2.Practice healthy eating
3.Eat Plenty of Fiber
To these 3 principles
you need to add Walk and Water. Reenu did 20 min walk
morning plus 20 min walk evening, daily. You may try
a 30-45 min walks once daily or do as she did twice,
20+20. Top up all the above with 2 and a half –
3 liters water which keeps you fresh, more active and
alert and cleans out all the waste products of fat break
down. Walk, Water, Diet is the miracle formula for a
new you!!!
(For details about
the diet please refer to Miracle Menu)
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