Every day we come across someone who is on a ‘PLAN’...
Mostly a purchased Diet Chart that prohibits a lot and
promises weight loss, health & in some acute cases six-pack abs. &
since it's a purchased plan, the discipline displayed by people is
awe-inspiring! For almost many weeks you can spot them resisting evening
snacks, measuring their food intake in bowls (some even delivering fantastic
precision by calculating in grams), and skipping the beer pint that they
would've wholeheartedly cherished! In process draining all their positive
energy and making life dull in following a fitness expert's Diet Chart!
Running in the last 6+ years has made me interact with
"real" fit people who don't kill their food and drink desires, rather
enjoys the good food/drink experiences. We don't pack quinoa and oats in our
tiffin boxes and never skip evening office snacks. We eat chips when we feel
like and don't subscribe to Dieticians who would have asked us to have paneer
when we felt like eating Lays! After our long distance running events, we
guzzle beer & call it Marathon Success Party.
The world revolves around the output-input mechanism. If one
is balancing his intake of calories with a healthy exercise schedule to sweat
out the excess; then that becomes a sustainable model.
On the top of our body sits the brain, which despite of
being on top is controlled by our Heart.
You can follow a Diet Chart for 30 days by monomaniacal mind
focus (some fitness and diet experts will even make you send photographs of
what you are eating daily till their paid subscription lasts so that will help
avoid the temptations!) BUT if you love Nutella or Samosa or Kingfisher your
heart will ensure you get back to making it happy. 5 kgs lost thru a Diet Plan,
ultimately is a 10 kgs increase when the Heart will take over.
Let's chase fitness with
running/cycling/yoga/tennis/badminton and not by giving up on things we love.
Eat that Samosa and then run some good miles, in effect balancing the
input-output equation and keeping the heart happy.
Just on a lighter vein, whenever I see someone on a ‘Plan’
giving up all the food he loves or nursing a sugar-free lemonade instead of his
favorite drink the voice of Amitabh Bachhan booms in my head -
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