When I started out with a determined focus this June to improve my health, the first change I introduced in my routine was food portion control .I did not need to eat so much as I am housebound for most of the time unlike before. This change alone helped me lose umpteen kilos. I gradually moved from 64.5 to 61 kg within a span of 2 months merely on basis of mindful eating, portion control and regular exercise. By mid-August,I hit a plateau as it was turning out to be increasingly difficult to lose more weight and that’s when I decided to revisit my weight loss strategy.I own a Fitbit Ionic (purchased in Jan 2019) and I use it to track my workouts, steps walked etc. Since this lockdown I started using it to diligently track my sleep as well. I thought I should go a step further and use it to track my calorie intake via food as well.I  never wanted to get into the ‘mathematics’ of weight loss as I found it taxing to meticulously track calories. However, necessity is the mother of ...

Currently, everything has moved to the online format. Whatever that was once thought to be impossible has been rendered possible overnight. To give an example from my experience, the company where I worked previously never allowed work from home (for reasons best known to them) but come mid-march and they had transitioned overnight to a work from home culture. Adversity teaches you to adapt, even if you are not prepared to. Fitness as a concept has always been introduced as an outdoor or group activity. It is widely regarded that if you decide to embark on a fitness journey alone, the chances of failure are higher. Hence, you are always advised either of the following: Join a gym instead of working out alone. Train under the guidance of a trainer. Make a gym-buddy. Play a sport like Football or Cricket. Join a fitness community to stay accountable. Do you see the point I am trying to make? In order to ensure higher success rates it is always advisable to stay in contact with someone – ...

Ever since we are born we are conditioned to believe that there is a clear difference between the male and female gender - Blue is for boys, pink is for girls. As we grow up the demarcation becomes even more evident - sports car toys for boys and dolls for girls and by the time we make it to our teens, girls are conditioned to believe that education is important but we also need to possess skills necessary to run a household effectively whereas boys are asked to diligently focus on their studies because they would grow up to be the sole breadwinners for their families. The point I am trying to make here is that right from a young age we are made to believe that some things are meant for boys and some things are meant for girls neither of which the opposite gender should attempt to excel at. A boy is laughed at if he insists to cook and a girl is bullied if she insists on riding a bike. To share an anecdote from my life, I started my fitness journey in 2015 which was the third tim...