Me, my Guru – On body and obesity!

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Me, my Guru – On body and obesity!

Let’s look at reasons for obesity before thinking or working on ways to combat it.

Main reason for obesity is of course – as already explained ‘over eating’.

The moment anyone is told ‘try to reduce weight’, the first reply is usually ‘but I hardly eat’ or ‘do you want me to starve and die?’ Reducing weight here is very simple if the cause is over eating. Reduce the intake. It doesn’t mean go on ‘crash diet’ or ‘starve yourself’ to weakness.

Once a woman who was obese went to a Doctor with lots of complaints like fatigue, palpitation, restlessness, depression and so on and so forth. The Doctor was an old man with lots of experience and not the Doctor who fooled his patients and forced them to take unnecessary tests and tablets. In short, he was a ‘Doctor’ who followed his ‘oath’ to the ‘T’. So, he said ‘from today eat 3 rotis with one bowl of green vegetables and one bowl of veg/pulses thrice a day and you can have two cups each of salad and fruit daily’.

The woman asked him to write down that prescription and he did. She kept staring at the paper and then asked ‘do I eat it before or after every meal?’

I’ll leave the Doctor’s reaction to your imagination. Just make a list of things you eat on hourly basis or better still through out the day including the number of cups of tea/beverages/aerated drinks. Take it to a dietitian or a Doctor and ask them to strike out unnecessary items. You can still have your rotis (Indian bread) just don’t put ghee or butter on it and as far as possible restrict it to 3 or 4/meal. Instead of taking non-veg thrice a day, cut it to atleast twice a day and preferably don’t eat non-veg at night. (If you are eating twice/day, that doesn’t mean you continue so, it means you cut it to once/day and so on..) Make your dinner as light as possible.

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