Happy New Year !!!

Bye Bye 2010

             

HAPPY NEW YEAR

The story of 'why I started blogging' is hidden in the following story.

             Kareena kapoor's film Tashan released in 2008. Everybody started talking about the zero figure of kareena...her dietitian ...kareena's eating habits blah.. blah.. blah. On FM radios, on TV channels,Youtube videos and on news papers, almost everywhere the name RUJUTA DIWEKAR was making news. I also got familiar with the name but was not that much keen on reading the articles or listening to the discussions on Radio. But I knew the name and her profession.

          Somewhere in October 2009, I  accidentally came across Rujuta's book- 'Don't lose your mind,lose your weight'. Accidentally meaning I had no intention to get that from the library. I was looking for some other book and I just got hold of this one. Somehow after a glance I felt, I should go through it.

          I started reading the book on my way home and  got fully engrossed in it. I really liked her approach of writing. I finished reading the book on the very night and  started following some of her guidelines from the very next day. Till today my whole family is following it.

A little about Rujuta's book.....
    The book describes the daily routine of eating patterns, good & bad habits, myths and misconceptions about eating, diet etc. The right time to eat right food. Do's & Dont's . Many options for in between meals. Key to keep your body and mind healthy. To achieve this you don't have to go out of the way, just listen to the signals given by your body & follow some discipline.
          The book had a long lasting impact on my lifestyle. It changed my routine completely.
I have to go to the roots, to explain you from where it started....
         We, in our family, were not that bad as far as eating habits were concerned but something was going wrong. As if something was missing. Everybody's health was ok ok but once in two months a visit to the family doctor for cough/cold, throat infection was unavoidable. Though I was trying to manage with healthy and nutritious food, I was not satisfied with the result.
Morning schedule was....

        I used to get up in the morning at 6:45 and start preparing for the 'dabba' after drinking a cup of coffee, (without eating anything). My husband and daughter would also sip a cup of coffee with biscuits or bread while reading the newspaper. I would finish my kitchen chore at around 9:30 and used to get so  exhausted that lead to a cuppa more. Sometimes I used to feel fatigued and drowsy.

Now it has changed to......
       We start with eating a fruit in the morning. Morning breakfast would follow after half an hour.  I never woke up to coffee & never experienced any fatigue.

         I start preparing for the tiffin with fresh mind and healthy body. Surprisingly all my work gets over before 9 o'clock.( as the individual meal  size is reduced and no. of meals is increased. )
  Evening schedule was like....
         I used to make some snack for the evening at about 7. We all would eat that till 7:30 and then I would start my dinner preparation. Dinner would consist of chapati, bhaji ( morning leftover),rice and curry ( made in the evening), fresh salad. Sometimes a sweet/dessert (twice a week)

Now it has changed to....   
        I stopped preparing snack at 7, instead I serve dinner at 7 P.M consisting of fresh rice preparation( brown/white) or bhakaree & fresh bhajee or salad/sprouts, etc.

          This worked out so well that for the whole year we did not visit the family doctor for any illness. TOUCHWOOD!!

        The importance of eating homemade food, healthy food was realized to me only after reading Rujuta's book. It was not that I was not knowing it. Everybody knows it as it was taught in our schools. But we forget it comfortably over the period of time or you can say we get tempted to junk food.
      I thought of writing a blog of my daily preparations of break-fast,lunch and dinner so that the young generation  who gets more tempted to junk food will get  some idea about the healthy recipes which will help them change their lifestyle.
      I really feel that everybody  should read this book to clear the misconceptions and know the facts about eating right.

         Rujuta has a blog http://rujutadiwekar.blogspot.com/   as Rujuta's gyan and she also tweets on twitter http://twitter.com/RujutaDiwekar  Her  short and sweet articles in Out look India are worth reading http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?267385 

      Many of her fans including me are awaiting her second book release !!! There is no doubt that this will also break the previous record of her own.

Welcome 2011



Start this new year with the resolution to eat healthy & be fit.
'Health is Wealth' is so much true.