How To Rejuvenate Yourself In A Few Steps

Hi @SGBV,
Thanks for starting the thread at the right time.
I too wish to share some info which might be helpful.

I joined a gym recently to shred 10 kg of weight gained in COVID lockdown.
Here are the tips shared by my trainer:

1. Morning black coffee with plain water (cold water) with a pinch of salt. Sounds strange? I too thought so and googled for it's benefits. It helps in fight with Inflammation and caffeine dose helps for workout.
2. Just soak oats, chia seeds and dried black grapes in plain water for 15 mins and add 2-3 chopped almonds, 2-3 dates, 1/4 tsp Peanut butter seeds like sunflower, watermelon, pumpkin and desired fruits with a dash of honey and take it as a breakfast along with 2-3 egg whites.
3. By morning 11 am, have to take cucumber or carrot with pepper & salt.
4. Lunch should be total of 250 gms which covers rice or roti, dal, veggies etc.
5. By evening 4 pm, have to take Papaya or pineapple.
6. 2 rotis without oil with dal (or) grilled chicken (or) Chenna masala.
Add on can be green tea, black tea, black coffee, lemon tea with honey or palm jaggery.
7. Daily water intake must be 3-4 ltrs

Strictly no outside food, no sugar, no diary products other than greek yogurt, cottage cheese, tofu/panneer, no mutton, no junk food or sweets.

Of course, the diet may vary from a person to person. But felt like sharing here which we can follow without much effort in our daily hectic schedule.

Hope this helps to somebody who is looking for a simple diet.

So far I lost 3 kg of weight within 1 month with less efforts and basic exercises like tread mill, cycling, jumping jacks, burpees, mountain climbers, squats etc.

 

SGBV your diet doesnt seem perfect..but perfect cannot b followed for long..but it seems without any fault and practical..would love to hear the results bcoz without monitoring we eat almost double of this.

 

i dont want to follow any diet but at the same time i dont eat too much too so not so much concern about it..

i do want to follow some workout, yday cant be able to do it.. will try it today.
as the weather is changing cant be able to walk outside need to figure out working out at home...

 

back to walking mode again trying to take it one day at a time with weather changing..

did walking 30 mins, cycling,jumping jacks..

as usual eating.. will check my weight on saturday see how i am doing ....

 

I love to join with you ladies.. I started IF few years back and found very good results. But I fell off the wagon when I started working and gained all of it back! I have an India trip in 3 months and want to lose min 10kgs. Back to IF and 30 -40 mins exercise( either HIIT or elliptical or yoga or dance) 4 days a week. Hope my plan is doable. Let’s use this thread for accountability. I am trying to do 20:4 window - 5 days a week and weekends I go easy. Will share my updates here!

 

no walk on 9/15 its kind of chilli outside, but did jumping jacks and cycling, anyone remember or do leslie walk i am planning on doing this from this weekend if its not allowable to walk ...

diet as usual..

weekend comes everything goes upside down..

 

I have 10 kg to shed and I will join in this thread and efforts as well.

I will not follow any particular diet and instead I will follow healthy eating with good amount of protein, minus sugar, fried stuff and junk, drink lot of water, herbal tea and IF (16:8) and walking.

2 things that worked well for me in the past - drinking 500 ml hot water first thing in the morning. Initially it felt weird but gradually I started liking hot water. The advice given to me was to drink 1 litre hot water first thing in the morning and 1 cup hot water an hour before and after every meal .. I’m not fully following this but on track to get there.

Second one is IF with last meal before 5 pm. So my eating window would be 9 am-5 pm. I noticed when I eat late, my IF wasn’t working well and I lost weight quickly when I finished my last meal of day by 5 -5:30 pm.

 

I am not really in a space to follow diets or even exercise regimes. I had a favorite yoga teacher and gym instructor, spent money and enjoyed those classes.
But life happens. right now, I just go for 108 pradakshina in temple atleast twice or thrice a week.
I cant cook rotis or any separate meals for myself, so same curry and dal for me also. BUt I either eat brown rice or daliya rice (just pressure cook daliya 1 cup , 2 cup water) and eat just like rice.
teas with no sugar.
Just with the anxieties in life, I started buying biscuit packets and sweets. I dont want to put my head into more struggle by not eating them (if eating those is giving me solace, so be it). Just trying to buy some jaggery sweets instead of sugar. eat murukkus a little less (maybe 1 instead of bringing the packet to the couch)
I am not even trying to cut down on my teas. Hoping since they are sugar less , its fairly ok.
I need to restart my anulom vilom and kapal bhati but not happening any time soon i guess.

I am trying to start stiching a dress (salwar kameez), so thats now a hobby. Trying to buy some cheap fabric so I can implement my thoughts/ideas into stiching it. Sareeblouse seems difficult. I cant even think of highlevel approach to it. I just got my sewing machine serviced , so thats that. will keep you posted

For anyone interested, try heating normal coconut oil with fenugreek seeds, curry leaves and hibiscus flower (or leaves) and let it cool. filter the oil and massage atleast once a week. (my parlor lady takes 200 just for oil massage but I think its worth it) If you do not go to office or much outside, you can even leave it for a day or two and then wash it off. Gives such cool feeling to you. Its great for hair too.