Off-late a lot of people walked up to me and asked me about my diet regime coz they noticed that I have reduced my weight without being appearing as stressed out. This made me think what’s happening?. This triggered a thought process which is in sync with the title of this blog.
I found out three important things: -
1. Cut down on sugar in liquid form, which means cut down on the number of tea/coffee/juice intake with sugar. I found this to be important as liquid sugar adds to weight faster then sugar in solid form (sweets etc). This has definitely helped me when I took it as a task
2. While walking, swing your arms, not like you are parading or something, but definitely till at-least a 30 degree angle from your shoulder. This burns additional calories while walking and most certainly makes your shoulders look broad. (Re-distribution of weight happens in here and most of your fat around shoulder and neck region transforms into muscles)
3. Drink water whenever you feel hungry, and if still you feel hungry then go ahead and eat. Most often we feel hungry and we just go and grab something to eat, this trigger might be due to several calculations going around in our brain. Not necessarily every time you feel hungry that your body is in need of energy.
Other then these, there are a few more things that I used as activity, start waking up early, which means, by default you would have a longer day then normal and you automatically burn more calories. Next being, cut down on pizzas, burgers, cold drinks etc remember, I never said to stop, rather I said cut down. Also, work in kitchen, it can be a simple task of getting the utensils back from a dish washer to the shelf, or cooking or anything. Important is work in kitchen.
Finally, being over weight is not such a bad thing, as most certainly there is a difference between being obese (which is a bad thing) and over weight. Ensure that you know yourself better then what people claim to.
Fat, thin, slim, size zero, etc have more to do with your metal understanding rather then your physical appearance. Eat healthy, work out in whatever way you can and chill out, do not take unnecessary tension. What you define as tension is purely your point of view, but trust me, being happy has a lot of impact on being healthy.
Happy eating and be healthy.
Green Revolution
No I am in no way trying to connect to the one started long time back, and no, this isn’t related to recent price rise of food stocks. Instead I had a quiet interesting debate with Vaibhav on this one. This discussion was particularly interesting coz it used the terms that we most easily understand and use in our day to day tasks.
What happens when we over draw from banks, we pay huge interest, correct. Similarly what will happen if we all continue to with draw oxygen at pace where the drawing pace is more then the replenishing pace? The Oxygen stocks will run out and then the next generations would either carry oxygen cylinders or will simply die of suffocation.
Remedy?
Actually very simple, do a quick calculation, a few of the variables can be: -
1. How many people are there in the family
2. How many hours/min of fuel we burn (this includes car, stove etc)
3. How much electricity we consume (this can be seen from your bills)
4. Any other that you think should be
And the plan is simple, plant one tree for each of the activities/items. Which means for the ones that we have stated above we can have the trees planted and named as: -
1. Deepak-Tree (Myself)
2. Nidhi-Tree (My wife)
3. Munnu-Tree (My brother)
4. Gas Tree
5. Bike Tree
6. Electricity Tree
7. One additional Tree
This tree has to be a tree and a shrub or a bon-size plant will not help. This has to be a tree that would last for as long as you will last yourself. The plantation also need not to be in your locality, it can even be a picnic spot that you visit, actually speaking, chances of a tree surviving a picnic spot would be far more then your locality.
The best way to do it is that every time you or your friends go for a picnic, as them to carry one tree for each of the members in the group. These days the trees come in very convenient packages and do not cost much. I guess each tree would be close to 20 bucks, which actually means that each one spending even 50 bucks would get you sufficient trees in the boot of your car. Now if you consider this cost against the benefits you would be surprised to see the amount of help that it would do.
(I definitely would like to claim a copyright on this idea, coz this one is originally mine).
I am starting this, are you with me?
What happens when we over draw from banks, we pay huge interest, correct. Similarly what will happen if we all continue to with draw oxygen at pace where the drawing pace is more then the replenishing pace? The Oxygen stocks will run out and then the next generations would either carry oxygen cylinders or will simply die of suffocation.
Remedy?
Actually very simple, do a quick calculation, a few of the variables can be: -
1. How many people are there in the family
2. How many hours/min of fuel we burn (this includes car, stove etc)
3. How much electricity we consume (this can be seen from your bills)
4. Any other that you think should be
And the plan is simple, plant one tree for each of the activities/items. Which means for the ones that we have stated above we can have the trees planted and named as: -
1. Deepak-Tree (Myself)
2. Nidhi-Tree (My wife)
3. Munnu-Tree (My brother)
4. Gas Tree
5. Bike Tree
6. Electricity Tree
7. One additional Tree
This tree has to be a tree and a shrub or a bon-size plant will not help. This has to be a tree that would last for as long as you will last yourself. The plantation also need not to be in your locality, it can even be a picnic spot that you visit, actually speaking, chances of a tree surviving a picnic spot would be far more then your locality.
The best way to do it is that every time you or your friends go for a picnic, as them to carry one tree for each of the members in the group. These days the trees come in very convenient packages and do not cost much. I guess each tree would be close to 20 bucks, which actually means that each one spending even 50 bucks would get you sufficient trees in the boot of your car. Now if you consider this cost against the benefits you would be surprised to see the amount of help that it would do.
(I definitely would like to claim a copyright on this idea, coz this one is originally mine).
I am starting this, are you with me?
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