Are you trying to lose weight?

Weight Loss!! The most trending topic these days.
We all have read so much on the internet about tips on loosing weight...

• One ingredient to lose 10 Kgs in a week.
• Do this 5 minutes exercise everyday to lose 5 Kgs in 2 days.
• Lose weight in one week with this detox drink. 

And these statements go on and on.

Have you too been trapped in such an exclamation on social media or youtube? Very keenly seen the videos? Tried making these detox drinks, followed exercise routines, starved yourself and seen the scale dropping numbers but gaining all back as soon as you stop following all this? Or you felt weak while doing all this? Even worse, you lost numbers but not even an inch?
Was doing all this worth the effort? Was it even sustainable?

Keeping in mind all of the above, here's Clearing Out this one thing- WEIGHT LOSS IS A MYTH. The lines we read in the beginning, are all gimmiks stated to attract people like you and me.

There is NO such thing as loose weight and get in shape. 

⏩ Body weight is a combination of your body fat, essential fat, muscles, bones, fluids, organs and skin.

If you try going on a detox program, you are just going to lose weight through fluid loss and not body fat you actually had to be freed from. Might also result in a lot of muscle loss.

⏩ Next, you go for the 5 minutes exercise routine and you notice no change? Body composition is not improved with a 5 minutes routine but with proper nutrition, exercise and rest. These are the PILLARS of a fit individual and not just exercise of few minutes.

Now, let us COMPARE: WEIGHT LOSS 'vs' FAT LOSS-:

• Your muscle mass plays a huge role in deciding your weight and whether you have more fat percentage or less.

          Why?
           Because muscles are denser and more compact than fat.
           Therefore, a person with more muscle mass is bound to have more weight.
           In such a case you will notice the fat percentage being less in body, the person
           looking lean and toned.
         

• On the other hand, fat being lighter than muscles, expands and takes larger space in the body. In this case, the person may not necessarily posses more weight. He/she may weigh much lighter due to light weight of adipose tissue (body fat) but leaves the person looking enlarged due to that loose and flabby skin hanging around.

Simplifying it further, 2 subjects for say 5 pounds each may have different sizes depending on more muscle or fat they are comprised of.
Refer the picture below for a better understanding↴

The first picture describes well about how much fat can there be in a 5 pound subject making it occupy more space and look loose as well as flabby.
Similarly, the 2nd picture tells clearly about how small a 5 pound subject can look if it has more muscle letting it occupy less space thereby giving it a firm, compact and a toned shape.

This clarifies one simple thing: Not to keep stepping the weighing scale when one tries to get fit. Infact, taking a meal plan to loose weight is no less than a stupidity. People take meal plans and within a few days step that scale to surprise themselves with the number drop if any. They might jump with joy if see a reduction or quit the plan being all depressed if see negligible change or an increase in weight. Hence, the target should be to lose the excess fat thereby getting fitter.

Concluding this, I leave it on you to decide - Now what do you wish to focus on.
Do you still want to lose weight??

How not to Diet?

Let's talk about this trend we all have come across sometime in our lives - DIETING.

Now, this is something almost every individual be it a newbie or someone holding a bit experience of self body transformation in the past would jump over to share views on especially when it comes to loosing weight.

Are you also one of those who think you need to diet for a month or two or three... to loose weight?

• Do you think that would be enough to get fit?
• Is loosing weight equivalent to getting fit? 
• What according to you is dieting? Isn't what we daily eat is a diet? Be it good OR bad (About which we'll talk later here). 
• One more question, Can this thing Diet-ing be sustained forever, something that can lead to building a lifestyle? Take any fad diet for example Keto, Paleo etc etc Or you think you need to only diet for a couple of months and then get back to your normal routine? 

These are a few questions I want each one of you to ask yourself before you proceed further. Stop! Think! Then Read Ahead!

Let's understand one simple thing, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DIETING.  

If someone comes up to me asking for a meal plan TO LOOSE WEIGHT, 

> First thing I make him/her clear is to purchase a meal plan TO GET FIT, understand what mistakes one must have done in the past and ways to correct them so as to get the results i.e Getting Fit and not just loosing those pounds. 

> Secondly, I do give a plan but with an aim to make one understand the plan is not to be followed for 2 or 3 months or any other number, that's something to be adopted forever, first working on eating healthy, then sticking to it (developing a habit) and hence building a lifestyle. 

• SO WHAT IT IS LIKE TO GET IN A MEAL PLAN?                                 Getting to eat complete food, not being exposed to starving or asked to eat tasteless food BECAUSE the focus should be on adopting a sustainable eating pattern.

"Following a meal plan is to follow a right kind of Nutrition or what we call

 the 'Normal Nutrition', that which the body wants.. to stay fit, energetic and disease free, that which the taste buds want.. to enjoy without getting to crave, and that which can be sustained, making it a lifestyle"

Here's something for you all to understand ↴

(Link for insights)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B5VZE5iAsc_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

As depicted above, you're supposed to opt for something that doesn't let you crave for taste, rather, lets you

 enjoy what you eat satiating yourself or in simple terms satisfying your hunger (Keeping you full for a considerable number of hours). 

A RIGHT or NORMAL NUTRITION WILL NEVER ask you to EAT LESS OR DIET, but WILL ASK you to EAT RIGHT. That's how you say DON'T DIET BUT STAY FIT.

Another thing I highlight here..

What you normally eat, Be it Good or Bad -  is a diet, WHATEVER YOU EAT forms a part of your diet, that is what is known as a HEALTHY or an UNHEALTHY DIET of a person.

So, regardless of what, bringing the same point again ⇒ You NEED NOT FOLLOW some magic diet to achieve a transformation, but, you surely need to IMPROVE YOUR REGULAR DIET so as to ACHIEVE that transformation SUSTAINING IT LIFELONG.

Introducing Sampurna Living.. Read On!!

Most of you must be thinking as to what introduction I would want to give here or why/ what would the name of this brand mean, so just before I start with my further posts, and share with you all the basic knowledge one should have about being fit, I want to tell something about this name SAMPURNA LIVING and how did it take its place.

To begin with, how Sampurna Living came into existence, being a Nutritionist very keen to help people around me with their nutrition and health, had built my profile on social media and was using the brains with all might to get a name as unique as possible. Thought a lot what could describe my thoughts, aim and dream, of developing a healthy lifestyle for a major health deprived population,  and then one fine day all of a sudden what struck me was this beauty and that moment made me feel nothing could be as apt as this to describe my work.


Now 'What does it mean ?' 'Why have I kept such a name ?' As asked by many of my clients..
Well in layman terms, Sampurna means nothing but Complete and Living Lifestyle.

Speaking about what would a Complete Lifestyle mean?

• Complete (Sampurna) being complete in all respect; viz; medically and physically fit, being active and energetic, disease free, being mentally fit and spiritually connected, someone satisfied and happy from within, one who's optimistic and believes in spreading that optimism with so many needy around. C'mon, we all need to admit there's so much negativity we've felt in some way or the other, some daily news or some criticism or anything else random, but we have all gone through this at some point and we surely don't want that, rather, that little spark of positivity also gives happiness and satisfaction. And of course, that also forms a big big part of a person's health.                                                                                                                                                                 Am I Right or Am I Right?                                 Moving ahead though, 

• Living (Lifestyle) simply put living such a lifestyle what generally people struggle with these days.

Concluding, Sampurna Living is a dream come true.                I wish to make people live a life healthy and disease free, develop habits they perceive as a lifestyle, last but not the least; make them understand what Food, Exercise and being Stress FREE is for the body.                                                                And, I'm working each day to move a step closer to achieving it.

Stay tuned as I come up with interesting posts, nutrition and health knack for ya'll soon.

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