Weight Loss and Busy Bee

The biggest myth about weight loss is that you do not have to eat. The only truth about weight loss is that not only you have to eat, you have to eat lots and that too healthy stuff.

With lots of healthy eating things become a bit more interesting if you are Ms. Busy Bee.

If from the moment you get up from bed till you hit it back at night, you have no idea where your day pass by then its possible that weight loss and exercising is the last thing on your mind. Right now as I am in the busy bee shoes, I suddenly have a great respect for women who are busy and are opting for weight loss.

With a tight busy schedule we tend to put ourselves at the bottom of the to do list. There are only 2 basic rules for weight loss, one is to eat right and the other is to exercise. SO how can you follow the rules when you are busy the whole day and feel tried at the end of the day to exercise.

1. Being Prepared: At the end of the day when you are mentally and physically drained, its very convenient to reach out for a junk option. Remember, a roti and sabji is far better than a cheese sandwich and burger.

As weekdays are crazy busy for me, on weekends I cut and keep my vegetables in the fridge. It takes 2-3 hours of a movie or TV viewing while I chop and store.

It makes life very easy. Your meal is prepared in flat 10 -15 minutes.

The pic below is the stock of my cut vegetables which help me to get through my week.

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Keep daal, daliya and curd ready in your fridge. Sometimes when the moment you enter in home you are hungry as hell. A bowl of daal, daliya accompanied with vegetable dish and raita keeps me sane and prevents mindless eating.

2. Snacking on the run : Even if you do not feel hungry while at work put an alarm in your clock to snack. This will stop you from feeling extremely hungry during dinner time. I find 5 soaked almonds quiet satisfying and a great mini snack. I soak them overnight and the carry them with me in an aluminum foil.

If you workout after office hours then make sure to eat something light one hour before exercising, this will keep your energy levels high and you won't feel drained out. I bake lots of oats and wheat bran mathries and carry one with myself everyday to work. I eat it one hour before hitting the gym. As oats and bran both are complex carbs it gives me a full feeling and keeps my energy up enough to exercise.

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3. Exercise: I will be lying to you if I say that you will be motivated to workout when you feel tired, having said that many ladies including me do go to the gym in spite of a busy schedule. When my days got busier my motivation to hit the gym went down the drain, so I sat down and decided on the things I can do and the things I can't. It seem that I can manage 45 - 50 minutes of exercise 5 days a week. Once I decided on 5 days a week, if I missed out on weekdays I hit the gym on weekends.

4. If you cannot invest straight 50 minutes to exercising : Then best way to do is to break the exercise in 10-15 minutes slot. Just in case if you think it won't work then let me tell you that exercising in small breaks is far better than not exercising at all. I went through the initial period of adjusting with my busy schedule and there was no time nor strength left for me to exercise. So for those days I negotiated. 10 -20 minutes in morning and 20 minutes in evening when I am back at home. So from doing nothing at all I managed atleast 30 -40 minutes of exercising in a day.

You can read any health article, any research paper and they will tell you that exercising in small slots work and you can also take my word for it that it works. It works because, something is always better than nothing.

Remember being healthy and looking good is your dream not anybody else's, so its you who will have to work for it and no one else will do this for you.

Its your battle and only you CAN rise for the fight.

 

Dear Godblessings,

Yes. I bake them and use oil spray (extremely less oil). Will upload the recipe soon.

A short version of the recipe is :

1. oats 1/2 cup. Wheat barn half cup and 1/4 cup wheat flour.

2. 2-3 finely chopped onions.

3. 1 tbspoon sesame seeds and flax seeds.

4. Salt to taste.

5. If you want you can add dried kasturi methi.

6. 2 tsp of yeast (follow the instructions on the packet on how to activate the yeast)

Mix every thing and knead a dough. Keep for half an hour to rise.

Spray oil on the baking sheet, you can use your finger also to do this. Then make small balls of the dough. Keep 2 tsp of white flour aside. Coat the ball with white flour and press with your hand to give it a shape. Arrange on the baking tray and either use oil spray to spray oil on top of the mathries or use your finger. Make sure that you do not use more than one tsp of oil.

Make for 10 minutes on each side. I use the highest temperature in my oven and check on mathries every 5 minutes. One batch gives me around 10 -12 mathries.

I will upload the process in detail in my next post. But just in case if you want to try this on weekend then you can follow the above recipe.

Love

Shiva

 

Thanks for liking the post. Honey to make hot coca sound good. Sugar carving is one thing I also fight most of the time. 1 tsp of honey is better than a tsp of white sugar.

Love

Shiva

 

Dear Lalitha,

Missed you too . I can now relate to you. The body pain and tiredness is there at the end of the day. I guess its more to do with mental exhaustion.

1. Do consult your doctor and see what he says.

2. If you cannot manage a heavy workout session then go for light workouts, it works well. I no longer engage myself into high impact exercise, some days I just got for a brisk walk on treadmill. Push yourself within your limits.

3. Diet is the most important part.

If your membership is still there for the gym make sure to consult your dietitian and opt for easy workout so that you can be motivated enough to be regular. On the days when you do not go to gym opt for walking.

Hope this helps.

Lots of love to you.

I have seen your recent pic and I can already see a great change in you. So don't give up, just few more kgs to go.

Love

Shiva