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Weight gain is a journey. Doesn't happen overnight, takes more than an eye blink. Its a time that you skip along merrily eating all that comes your way, sometimes to feed your desire, sometimes your emotions and many a time it's an undeserving reward that you give yourself as you walk the tightrope called stress.And as this journey unfolds, what one doesnt realize is that you are creating long and short term memories of poor habits that you have fed yourself. Emotional turmoil, nutritional deficiencies, lack of self awareness, genetic susceptibilities blown large in the wake of less than acceptable lifestyle habits & ignorance of the strong bearing food habits have on health. Little inroads leading up to that long path that finally finds you at a crossroad where you either want to or have to change your route.The reasons may be one or many, none of them creating unconfounded fears. Obesity, frightening medical reports, health impacts, loss of confidence are all contributors to that decision to pick your goal and wing in your determination.And then there is a new journey of sheer grit and achievement unveiling a new individual that is showered with compliments, who feels empowered and confident, ready to throw away the old wardrobe and with that those stress inducing red medical markers.

Why is it then that 9 times out of 10 one regains the weight? Eating and Living right is a skill, once imbibed it must have your permanent address. Regression is not an option and yet you are unable to pick the threads once again.The reasons are simple. This is not juggle, its not about dropping the marbles, its about placing your marbles in their holders and keeping a hawk like eye on them.

Your emotional quotient plays the most important and relevant role in retracting your steps. A diet repairs your food habits but before you even venture into that, it's important to explore your emotional health. Emotional upheaval and stress can cause your routine to fail like a sandcastle under duress of sea waves. With your routine, inevitably fails your sleep, your sense of peace, your food timings, food habits and more.

Hormones panic into frenzy creating little muddled in your body that listen to no metabolic logic. Weight gain is inescapable. In such cases following a diet to lose weight is like placing a band aid to stop the bleeding without actually repairing the root cause of injury. It takes courage, counselling, will and patience to heal oneself. And that is the first investment you need to make.

Your body does not understand weight loss. It only understands survival. SO when you rely on heavy calorie restriction to lose weight, the body at some point in an effort to survive the created environment of starvation slows down your metabolism in an effort to use up minimum calories. Quite an irony when you actually want to burn more!

Lesson learnt is that there is no hurry to lose weight. Fat is a light molecule and it takes time to burn its abundance. Fortitude, not impatience in your armour will take you a long way.

Your meal plans have to be balanced slicing down not on your meals but your inexcusable food habits.

Quality and quantity of food has to be enough to support your exercise and activity for the day. The trick is to not feel hungry throughout the day stopping short of feeling full. When you reach this stage you have placed control over your appetite-hormones, nutrients and what not.

Balance of hormones and sufficiency of nutrients need to be checked before you even decide to lose weight. Repair these or else they become roadblocks in your otherwise inspiring journey.

Calcium chromium and zinc deficiency can cause irresistible sweet cravings. An imbalance of salts or an increase in cortisol levels (stress hormone) good cause salt cravings.

A drop in Vit D, ferritin (storage form of iron) or thyroid hormones could throw water on your best efforts at fat loss.I have to admit that this point is what the health audience is most aware and believing of!!

Travel: Travel gives most people the leverage or permission to slack, in their heads. Being away from home builds a charade of not being in control of what you eat. Its self devised technique, credits: the human race.

You do not have to let go if you really dont want to. Food finally is food everywhere. Travel and how to eat towards your benefit must be an episode of every well thought of health journey.

We are human beings and we desire food. For the most part, we can be disciplined, we can be conscious of what we eat, we can make our meal options both interesting and healthy. But we need not program ourselves to not eat rich, mouth watering calorie dense foods AT ALL.

Its not a practical approach and you may not be able to live life like that for always. After all, life expectancy has gone up! So do not start off doing what you cannot do forever. If you do not make room for your heart meals while you socialize, party, make new friends and and over food, thats what your body will expect forever. And that expectation you may not be able to live upto. So make room for desserts, fries and pizza that winks back at you, cleverly, such that 85% of the time you are disciplined in your food habits and 15% of the time, you let go. This will over a period of time teach your body to metabolize large portions of food without damaging your intent or your results.

Theres no NORMAL anymore. When you took that significant decision to get healthier, your NORMAL way of eating had nothing normal about it. If you have piled on undesirable amounts of weight and have pertinent blood markers, your normal eating was anomalous.

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Here's why your diet might not be sustainable! - Times of India

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