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'Rujuta has not just changed my body but also my mind and soul. She is the best thing to have happened to my life!' Kareena KapoorWant to know how Kareena Kapoor managed to achieve the perfect figure? Let Rujuta Diwekar tell you how. India's top celebrity fitness guru has worked with the who's who of Bollywood including Kareena, Karishma, Saif, Lisa and Sonali. Now she lets you in on her secret-you can eat anything you want just as long as you plan for it. No crash dieting, no carb deprivation, no unbidden cravings. Rujuta teaches you the three simple steps to dieting heaven: learn about your body, create the right plan for it, and slowly adjust your food habits. What's more, she even lets you in on Bebo's secret, in a special chapter on how exactly our favourite heroine got that phenomenally fit bikini bod for Tashan. So whether you're apple or pear-shaped, soon you'll be eating all you want-including those irresistible parathas-and still shedding those kilos. Don't Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight is the ultimate diet for daily life. It's worked for the stars-now make it work for you.

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Publié par	Random House Publishers India Pvt. Ltd.
Date de parution	20 octobre 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9788184001655
Langue	English

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RUJUTA DIWEKAR

DON T LOSE YOUR MIND LOSE YOUR WEIGHT
RANDOM HOUSE INDIA
Table of Contents
A note on the author
Preface
Foreword by Kareena Kapoor
Introduction Simplicity is profound About this book How to use this book
1. What diet is not Diet as punishment: the compensation diet Extreme diets just don t work: the detox diet Exercise and dieting are mutually exclusive-no they aren t Measuring body composition One size doesn t fit all The truth about low fat and sugar free alternatives All food is good What is the solution?
2. How to eat: relearn Know thy stomach Overeating and overeating threshold Learning to train your stomach The 5 basic rules to increase nutrient intake And the 6th rule-a calm state of mind
3. What to eat: rethink All about carbs All about proteins All about fats All about vitamins and minerals Supplements Water
4. The 4 principles of eating right Principle 1 Principle 2 Principle 3 Principle 4
5. Inculcating awareness Information without awareness is useless Sample diet and activity recalls for specific profiles
6. Crossing the bridge: from knowing to doing The 6 steps towards adopting a healthier lifestyle Now is the best time to start
Q A
Appendix Kareena ka Tashan It s non-negotiable: exercise as a part of your life DIY diet recall
Footnote
3. What to eat: rethink
Acknowledgements
Follow Random House
Copyright
A note on the author
Rujuta Diwekar works out of Mumbai, practises yoga in Rishikesh, ideates in Uttarkashi and treks in rest of the Indian Himalaya. For over a decade she has worked with people from all walks of life on fitness and diet related issues. Her celebrity clients include Kareena Kapoor, Anil Ambani, Saif Ali Khan, Konkona Sen and Preity Zinta. Amongst the few qualified sports science and nutrition experts in the country today, she has redefined dieting with her holistic approach towards a healthy lifestyle.
www.rujutadiwekar.com
This is for you, Bebo
Preface
Dear readers,
Don t Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight , my first book, was published in 2009. It was written fast, over a few months, but the thinking behind it had taken many years of working as nutritionist and studying Ayurveda and yoga.
It s tough to revisit the past, especially when you are looking back at a pleasant memory or a discovery rather. For starters, I discovered that the call I received to write a book was not a hoax, it was real. But the most amazing and heart-warming discovery has been the generous love and the free marketing that the book has received from each one of you. Its success lies in the fact that it is your book, one that you have adopted, loved and promoted selflessly. A bestseller is made by readers and you have surely done a wonderful job at ensuring that this book sold year after year like, shall I say, hot jalebis on a Sunday morning.
Now to celebrate the completion of its sixth year in the bestseller charts, we have added a Q A section that covers some of the most common myths and misunderstandings on food and weight loss still going around. I hope this will resolve any confusion you may have.
Lastly, the book couldn t have come this far without you and without the ever-enduring love and support of Kareena Kapoor. I remain hugely indebted to Bebo and to each one of you.
Happy reading-and happy eating.
Rujuta Diwekar
Mumbai, 2015
Foreword
For a long time, I used to think that diets were all about starving and punishing yourself. And I wasn t alone. A lot of people thought the same way.
Then I met Rujuta.
She totally changed my perception about diets and dieting. First, she told me it wasn t about starving but about eating well, eating right and eating regularly. I said, I m a Kapoor, I love my parathas, paneer, cheese. Rujuta replied, You can go right ahead and eat all of that and more. I was like, cool, when can we start?
I started working with Rujuta around the time I started working on Tashan , and the results are there for all to see: my size zero became a subject of national interest. The media asked me if it was all diet, all exercise or both. My answer: it was seventy percent diet and thirty percent exercise (this through a combination of training and yoga).
Rujuta spent a lot of time understanding my work and my lifestyle, and gave me a diet totally customised to my needs. My diet on work days is different from my diet on shoot days, and even my shoot diets vary on days when I have a shoot or performance which requires dancing. Meals are planned according to level of activity.
When I am in Mumbai, breakfast is muesli and milk, or a chilla or paratha (no chai or coffee)-when I was shooting in Ladakh, breakfast was fresh fruit and pudina chai without milk. In Ladakh, I also ate momos and thukpa (on the last day of the shoot I was even allowed a pizza!). I had appams and idlis in Kerala, and in Italy, it was risotto and pasta with gorgonzola (half portions though, not full).
I make sure I eat every two hours, and my meal or snack ranges from a sandwich to a glass of soy milk. For Rujuta focuses on nutrition and not just calories. Amazingly, she helps you keep the nutritional value of what you eat, as compared to how many calories you consume, high. And still enjoy what you re eating!
I have learnt what Rujuta means when she says, Be smart about food . Now, thanks to her book, you can too. I m certain you ll find it good enough to eat!
Kareena Kapoor
Mumbai, 2008
Introduction
I climbed the six kilometres of glacier from Gaumukh (at an elevation of 4000 metres) to Tapovan (4400 metres), with my heart beating in my ears with every step, expectations mounting. I d heard so much about Simla baba , how he had been living in Tapovan for many years; the severe winters he had survived with snowfall more than six feet; how many penances he had done; and all starry eyed, I was hoping to learn something profound from him. On reaching Tapovan, I went to his hut immediately and asked him, Baba, aapko yahan kaun laya?
Jo tanne yahan laya, wohi manne yahan laya, he replied, with a straight face. (He who brought you here, brought me here.) That s it? I thought, disappointed.
It took me many more years and realisations to figure out that simplicity is profound.
Simplicity is profound
Don t lose your mind, by complicating something as simple as feeding yourself (although these words appear in smaller font on the cover, they are really the bigger message). Losing weight, as you will realise by the end of the book (I hope), is incidental. A by-product of following a common sense approach to eating-eating right.
But there is a thin line between simplicity and oversimplification. And just like you do with generalisations, you miss the point completely when you oversimplify. Eating a balanced diet will keep you healthy: a simple statement of fact. The less we eat, the thinner we become: an oversimplification. Other examples of oversimplification: blood group, GM (General Motors), cabbage soup and orange juice diets.
In a bizarre way, oversimplification seems to work best through mystification. Theoretically opposites, but apparently a potent combination. The best example of this combo: miracle foods. The weirder sounding, the better; Chia seeds, Acai berry, quinoa, etc, etc. We really want to believe that there is something miraculous in these exotic foods, which will undo all wrong we have done to our bodies (oh we all know we have), but we have no idea how and we don t even want to know.
When I started as a nutritionist about ten years ago, I struggled to find my place in the fitness and wellness industry (hardly an industry, but nevertheless). For starters I had to deal with the stereotype of a healthy (as in plump and preferably double chinned, not fit and lean) sari and apron wearing dietician, while I was a young postgraduate in tights and jeans. My clients were aghast that I was promoting weight training, yoga and running as a means to keeping fit. Agar exercise karna hai, then why come to you? asked a concerned, well-meaning client. Everybody wanted to know how much weight loss I could guarantee, or How much do you charge per kilo? (I felt I was selling onions.) It was easier to fool people into believing that starvation was the way, somehow there was a ready clientele for anything like: no banana, no workout, no food only juice, etc. Where was the thrill in eating the right amount of food at the right time as I prescribed? Yet as I struggled to find a foothold, I was sure that eventually people would realise (obviously with the help of some fitness professionals, more access to information and some hard hitting experiences) that losing fat and getting into shape has much more to it than how many grams or kilos you have dropped in a week or six months.
About this book
Through this book I share with you my take on dieting, and how dieting or diet is the most misunderstood term in English. There is no such thing as going on or off your diet. Eating correctly has to be a lifelong commitment, and the diet should be a reflection of this. This automatically rules out any extreme diet or crash diets which require you to go off them. Diet, or what you eat, should be planned according to your activity, lifestyle, fitness levels, likes, dislikes, genetics, etc. It should be part of our daily life, just as brushing our teeth is. For diets to work they have to be personalised. Oversimplification or generalisation has never worked. We are all genetically predisposed to carry fat in different parts of our body. So for fun, pick up the book which has the shape on its cover you identify with more, apple or pear (but do know that the basics of fat loss and healthy living remain the same, regardless of your shape, size, gender, age, nationality, etc).
My other belief (which you will find in this book) is that all food is good . All foods contain nutrients which have their own role to play in our body. We need all kinds of nutrients, like