Beauty and Personal Grooming

How I Discovered Rujuta Diwekar’s Book Today, I want to share a quick summary and some key takeaways from Rujuta Diwekar’s groundbreaking book, Don’t Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight . But before diving into the review, let me tell you how I ended up reading this book in the first place! I first heard about Rujuta Diwekar years ago when she rose to fame as a celebrity nutritionist, working with Bollywood stars and industrialists.  Her client list was impressive—names like Kareena Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Amrita Arora, Alia Bhatt, and even Mukesh Ambani.  At the time, her book, Don’t Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight , was highly recommended by Kareena Kapoor herself. Despite my own struggles with losing a few extra kilos, I never got around to reading it back then. Rujuta Diwekar’s Social Media Dominance Fast forward to recent years, and Rujuta Diwekar was everywhere on social media. Her posts, short videos, and reels flooded platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube...

Who doesn’t dream of having a slim and shapely body? All those women with extra fat on their hips, arms and thighs, and those tyres around their waists have surely tried innumerable easy, and difficult, ways to shed that stubborn fat, and found it still there. Don’t lose heart. There is still an easy way out. Sounds interesting, doesn’t it? So read on and find out. Easy way of accommodating exercise in your daily schedule. By “easy” way, I mean fitting the exercise schedules into hard work-load. Normally one has to keep aside those precious 20 minutes every day for exercising, sometimes, even more. And after those workouts, you are tired, hungry and wondering why the extra fat doesn’t disappear. One thing to make clear is that without exercise and a controlled diet, it is impossible to have that slim appearance. Don’t fool yourself by starving one day and eating for 2 the next! This does more harm than good. You won’t lose weight.   And crash diets (beware) a...

Did you know that siting is the new smoking and that standing every now and then can help you lose weight? Yes it's true!   Long back I had shared how sitting for long hours is detrimental to health and how standing more often and moving about can help lower your risks of several lifestyle diseases. Prolonged sitting has been linked to the obesity epidemic, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.    Charles E Matthews, an epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute says that sitting for hours is linked to more cancers than just breast and colon cancer. He warns that we need more physical activity than we thought - but more importantly, we need to sit less.    Just one hour of TV a day puts even the most active of us at a higher risk of not just breast and colon cancer - which we already knew - but also nine other cancers including lung and head or neck.    Furthermore if you just laze around the whole day by sitting or lying down and then do vi...

It’s a fact that every woman dreams of having an hour-glass figure, but lack of exercise and poor dietary habits are some of the factors that cause a slim and fit body to remain a dream for many of us. A gradual weight gain over the years is a hard reality of life. Young girls, aided by a fast metabolic rate, find it relatively easier to control their weight but, as we age, the metabolic rate slows down, and our tussle with excess fat starts. Every woman wishes to have a slim, svelte and an hour-glass figure.

Simi asks: My figure is unsymmetrical with a bulging abdomen. My height is 5 feet 1 inch and my weight is 58 kg. I have a fair complexion, but I am afraid that  losing weight will make my skin dark .   Should I take some vitamin pills to prevent these problems? Being a non-vegetarian, should I abstain from non-vegetarian food? All the remedies I have tried so far have had no effect. Please suggest something that works. I am only 20 years old.

Whey protein is generally known as the king protein when it comes to building muscle, but it is a powerful weightloss-fireball too. In this article, you’ll find out how whey can help you beat hunger and hit your weight loss goals.

Does this make me look fat? This time honored question has been plaguing females for decades. This little insecurity hides deep inside our psyche, waiting to rear it’s ugly head at all the worst times. Typically, whispering the loudest when we are trying on a new outfit, preparing for an upcoming special event, or contemplating swimsuit season. Suddenly, we are analyzing every bulge and wiggle, stretch mark or muffin top, in a tiny room filled with mirrors.

More and more people are looking at natural supplements to lose weight, improve health and fitness. Forskolin is one such supplement that has received a lot of media attention lately for its purported effect on fat loss and muscle building simultaneously. Let’s dive straight into the details of this amazing supplement –

Depending on the current state of your skin and the scope of your weight-loss results, there are various ways you can make it firm and tight again. Whether it’s a matter of the post baby-bump skin or sagginess that inevitably came with great weight reduction, you can make it go away with a smart application of creams, proper nutrition and various treatments. We have you covered, from the tips for people who are now starting a diet to the proven weight-loss champions. Bear with us if you’re interested in knowing how to handle the annoying excess skin and get into your favourite clothes without trouble.

Most people believe that weight management is only about calorie calculation and exercising.  Image courtesy of jk1991 at FreeDigitalPhotos.net   However, research has shown that hormone called leptin plays a vital role in hunger and weight management. Also called the “fat hormone” or the “starvation hormone”, leptin hormone was first discovered in the early 1990s and came into spotlight for affecting weight loss and cravings.

New Year usually brings a set of resolutions; one of the most common is an intention to get fitter. The need to have a flat, toned stomach will probably be high in your list; the many stunning models featured in the pages of the glossy magazines will help to inspire you! Thankfully, it is not necessary to sign up to a new gym membership; it is possible to tone you stomach up at your desk, when watching TV, or even when cleaning; just follow these tips.

Dieting is a process as much to do with the mind as with the body. When you body is to be reshaped, remember that many of your attitudes, ideas and thoughts have also to be reshaped. Some facts have to be learnt, some realities faced, some myths discarded and some new attitudes adopted. First, while dieting, it is important to remember that it is always appetite and not hunger that has to be controlled. What is the difference between the 2? Suppose someone offers you your favourite sweet or ice-cream when you have had a full meal and you jump at the offer. Here it is your appetite that tempted you and not your hunger. Hunger is when you have missed a meal or it is much delayed and you’re feeling very weak and beginning to hear your stomach rumble demandingly. Hunger refers to this basic need of the body – so don’t try to ignore it.

Are you concerned by a flabby belly and those tyres around your waist? Well, you should be! While it's true that a big belly makes you look unattractive and you can't fit into your favourite pair of jeans any longer, it's not just limited to that! Being fat around the stomach has much more risks than you imagine! Now being overweight or obese all over is obviously bad but where exactly your fat accumulates also matters. It has been found that visceral fat is more dangerous than subcutaneous fat or in simpler words stomach fat is more bad than hip fat . A huge tummy could increase your risk of heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and some cancers.

When women become mothers, their entire lives change. All of the freedoms, financial security and alone time they had before baby vanishes. Of course, most women would agree that the trade off is well worth losing those privileges. One of the things a lot of mothers miss once their babies are born is time for staying in shape. Whether they are members of  a gym, enrolled in a dance class, or enjoy running around their neighborhood, mothers need that "me" time to stay physically and mentally fit. Breastfeeding is a great way to help lose some of that baby weight, but it doesn't get the heart rate going, or build any muscle.

The human body is wildly complex, and this means that there is no universal solution for weight loss. Many of those looking to shed some pounds will find that their diet and exercise plan is no longer enough, but they are unsure of what their other options could be. Here are four of the safest and most effective methods to trim off some weight when that new diet seems to have stopped working.  

When you talk about losing or gaining a few kilograms, it sounds like a marathon task, in the beginning. You can either drag on, postpone it to a later date, which will only make the task worse. The first step is to make up your mind, once and for all, set yourself a target and move ahead to achieve it. Scientific dieting is not just a matter of missing out on our regular meals or nibbling down anything that looks good enough to eat, or is edible. Whether you are on a diet to lose or gain weight, make sure you have balanced nutrition, a regular meal pattern, a daily program of exercise and a safe, slow loss or gain of weight. There are certain myths about dieting which have no scientific basis. Many are too fat or too thin because of these myths, attached to dieting.

Yoga is a Hindu discipline that consists of a system of exercises designed to improve physical and mental health. In the latest 2012 Yoga in America study released by the Yoga Journal, more than 20.4 million Americans practice yoga today, compared to 15.8 million who stated they practiced in a study performed in 2008. Yoga provides a gentle approach to cardiovascular exercise for beginners, greatly benefiting those who are overweight, sedentary or post-menopausal. Best of all, you can obtain these health advantages in your spare time without having to purchase any special equipment. Photo by Flickr user RelaxingMusic

People go on a diet in the hope of shedding their long-dreaded excess weight. However, not all diet attempts seem to go smoothly as planned. Somestrategies to lose weight only make dieters reap the opposite results. So if you are on a diet but you seem to be getting fatter by the minute, there must be some things you’re doing terribly wrong.

When considering the body’s composition, it can be noted that magnesium is the eleventh most abundant element by mass.  It is also the fourth most abundant mineral in the body.  Almost half is stored in the bones, while the remaining half can be found in the cells of other organs, body tissue and blood. Magnesium is needed for all living cells.  It plays a major role in forming and maintaining DNA and RNA.  The compound has many medicinal uses including the creation of laxatives, antacids, and sedatives.  Magnesium also helps treat eclampsia and Restless Leg Syndrome.  It can be found in many non-medicinal products too like fertilizer, paper, and fire-resistant cables.

Eat healthy and Exercise . Those are really the only ways to truly lose weight and keep it off. Unfortunately, in today’s world it is increasingly difficult to eat healthy. And what does “eating healthy” even mean? It seems that a “must eat” one week, is a “don’t ever eat again” the next. Doing something that should seem so natural actually requires hours of research just to get started. Fortunately, I have done some of the leg work for you. Not just in the research department, but also in the testing process.