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What do your best friend's wedding, a beach holiday, and the coming of summer have in common? You got it. It's the need to knock off those extra kilos and get into your hottest avatar. And if you think that's an impossible task after all the fruitless diets you've been on, well you've come to the right space. Thirty years of experience under her belt and a clientele of 1500 Dilhiwallahs (who swear by her) later, Nishi Grover has finally put out the bible for weight loss. If this diet doesn't get you into your favourite pair of jeans in a month, nothing else can. Simple, logical, and result-oriented, Lose a Kilo a Week follows a few key mantras-time, portion, quality, and mind control-which will get you ship-shape in no time. Packed with handy tips, diets, and charts that track your weight loss over the weeks, this is the definitive guide on losing weight quickly.

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Publié par	Random House Publishers India Pvt. Ltd.
Date de parution	28 décembre 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9788184003819
Langue	English

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Published by Random House India in 2012
Copyright Nishi Grover 2012 All exercise photographs by Vinith Bora
Random House Publishers India Private Limited Windsor IT Park, 7th Floor, Tower-B A-1, Sector-125, Noida-201301, UP
Random House Group Limited 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road London SW1V 2SA, UK
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EPUB ISBN 9788184003819
To my parents for their immense support and love and my clients-every day I learn from you
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
How to Use this Book
PART I: A Big Fat Issue
1. Why am I Fat?
2. Relearning How to Eat
3. The 3 Big Cs
4. Getting Prepped for the Diet
5. What is This Programme All About?
6. Recommended Foods
7. FAQs
Part II: The CCQ Diet
8. Week 1
9. Week 2
10. A One-Day Detox
11. Week 3
12. A One-Hour Exercise Routine
Part III: Maintaining Your Weight
13. How to Maintain Your Weight
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
A Note on the Author
Foreword
I first heard about Nishi from my niece who had been on her programme and achieved a great deal of confidence about herself from it. I was intrigued because for the longest time I had wanted to change my eating patterns and couldn t seem to find time for it in my packed schedule. It was after I joined Nishi s programme that I realized what a great nutritionist she is.
Firstly, I would like to thank Nishi for her tremendous wisdom and effort for helping not only me, but the hundreds of other women and men in whose life she s made a difference. In today s world, we all need to be healthy to stay ahead. There is huge pressure among women to look good and keep up with each other. However, our hectic schedules and the abundance that we are being endowed with are actually becoming impediments to leading a healthy and clean lifestyle. Obesity is on the rise, along with the incidence of heart disease, and just being healthy is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve.
This is where Nishi makes a difference. She is a true nutritionist, who not only helps you lose weight but also helps you maintain your ideal weight and kick start a healthy lifestyle. It s not eating less that changed my outlook towards food but eating right. And that s why she s always successful. Her mantra is simple-you are what you eat. Nishi prescribes bigger lifestyle changes rather than short cut diet plans. From her I learnt the tools of eating the right way and choosing the right foods, controlling my portions, and eating on time-the three crucial factors to controlling your weight, besides giving a great boost to your system. Her simple rule of eating with the sun-eat the most during lunch when the sun is at its peak because that s when your metabolic rate is also at its highest and cutting back in the evening, and never keeping your stomach empty made a huge difference to my life.
These, and more, simple and easily achievable ideas that she sets out are life changing and have long term benefits. Her programme makes you feel great about your body, makes you more energetic, stabilizes your mood, and keeps you as healthy as possible-all of which she teaches by a few nutrition basics and easy day-to-day dietary and lifestyle changes.
I believe that this book will be a tremendous help for people who want to make a big change in their lifestyle by making small yet crucial changes in their current habits. Packed with tips and told in Nishi s inimitable voice, Lose a Kilo a Week is the best gift you can give yourself.
Kavita Bhartia New Delhi
Introduction
My journey to well-being and a healthy lifestyle was not one I had chosen on a whim. It was something I had to do. At the age of four, an age when children couldn t be bothered about the vitamins in carrots or how healthy greens are for them, I was diagnosed with Type I diabetes. And along with it came a host of other complications. While other children scampered about and ate candies and cake, I had to come to terms with the fact that my body was different-vulnerable and brittle.
Type I diabetes is extremely complex. I had to be very careful when I was growing up. Maintaining blood sugars in the normal range requires a delicate balance between the amount of available insulin and its action at the cellular level. My father, a doctor himself, taught me patience and showed me the way to combat the disease-to self-monitor blood glucose, medications and their use, exercise well and understand the importance that food plays. It was heartbreaking for him to see his little daughter unable to do things that other kids could but he saw me through some of the darkest days. I, on the other hand, didn t have a choice, and had to embrace a healthy lifestyle to battle my disease. However, I was a child and I faltered. As a teenager, I didn t comprehend the implications of not having a proper diet plan. I gave in to my impulses on many occassions-snacking at night, binging on chocolates. Of course, it was my parents who first had the enormous task of making sure I ate right and stayed healthy.
But as I grew up, and grew to understand that my body was very different from everyone else s I also understood the importance of food and exercise. Soon I made healthy lifestyle a commonplace thing and haven t deviated from it ever, well I do sometimes pop a chocolate in. I ve had lapses which I have no control over but overall I am healthy, strong, and focused today because of my dedication to good eating habits and a disciplined exercise regime. So when I see people around me abuse food or eat unnecessarily, it not only makes me sad because they re throwing away their gift of having a beautifully functioning body, it also makes me angry about the wasted potential.
I embraced the concept of being nutritionally sound and physically fit and made it a part of my life. I devoured literature on health and made adjustments to my diet. This was my battle and I had every intention of fighting it tooth and nail. In 1987, I discovered aerobics and fell in love with it. It was just the sort of activity that I could be absorbed in-you work up a sweat, you breathe hard, your heart thumps keeping time with music. Aerobics was new in India, and I quickly took up a course and then began to train as a trainer. In 1988, I was certified by American Federation of Aerobics (AFA).
In 1991, I represented India in the World Aerobic championship in Las Vegas. And six months later, when Reebok opened in India, I took classes with them and soon became a certified instructor. That was just the beginning.
I was teaching aerobics three to four classes back to back. They were powerful classes, which got me and my students completely exhausted. Aerobics got me more and more into thinking about what healthy living was about. One day, a friend struggling with weight attended a class of mine and asked if aerobics could really help her lose weight. I told her that it could help her stay fit. To lose weight she first needed to eat correctly. She asked me if I could tell her what to eat and guide her a bit. I told her how I ate and about my lifestyle. She followed it religiously and, voila, she lost all her extra weight in just a few months.
My lifestyle was a successful model. It started with her, and soon the word got around. It was a gradual development, and one that was a huge learning process for me because every person s body is different and no two people have the same set of issues. I learnt something from every client who walked in through the door at Vasudevan s clinic. They all had a story of how they perceived food, what they thought about food, and why they ate. It was a long education process for me. However, over the years, I saw a pattern in my clients, and I understood what led people to eat the way they did.
The people who have come to me have all tried and dabbled in some sort of a fitness/diet/detox plan before. They are all clued into the health mantra of eating right and exercising. Yet they fail in their diets and go back to the way they usually eat. And I don t blame them because losing weight and maintaining your ideal weight is, first and foremost, about their will power-controlling the mind-a tricky thing to master. Behind every great leader, or successful person, or even religion for that matter, lies the subtle but all important disciplining of the mind. To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one s mind. If a man can control his mind, he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him -the Buddha teaches, and there couldn t be a simpler, yet profound, truth in life.
The reason people still come to me after so many years is that I understand that they have failed before in their attempts at losing weight, I also understand the reason behind it-lack of will power and motivation. So I use a different approach when dealing with them. I don t just give them their diets and leave them to follow it on their own, because I know that will not work. In fact, I don t give them a brand new diet at all. I start with minor modifications in their current eating patterns, and gradually taper it down. This is the most flexible diet out there. If you are eating four rotis for lunch, I will make you leave one out. If you are eating dinner at 9 pm, I ll suggest you try and eat an hour earlier. If you are eating mangoes for breakfast, I ll switch them with guavas. They aren t impossible changes so m