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Do you pay a heavy price for negligence during the festive season?
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Fit or fat? Has the festive season hindered your fitness goals
The season of cheer – Christmas and New Year – with all its parties, food and merry making, is a time when fitness and health concerns seem to be the last priority for revellers. When all round the year people slog it out in gyms and fitn
ess centres, come the festive season, their efforts turn futile because they can’t seem to hold back their appetite! And suddenly you find, men and women who’ve been battling obesity - and winning – slumping back into the old habit of binging when they should be keeping a check on their intake.
Jessica, a homemaker says: “I’ve been following a strict exercise regime along with a planned diet throughout the whole year and I felt like it made a huge difference. A week into the New Year now, I feel like I’ve cheated myself because of all the eating I’ve been doing throughout this season.” While it is hard to resist that turkey, plum cake, chocolate fudge and other delights, people who are bothered about it, should be wary of what and how much they binge on, so that the ‘huge difference’ doesn’t restore itself. Fat and weight issues are such, that sometimes they creep upon you like uninvited visitors. You feel like you are doing well to keep yourself fit and healthy. And then one day the weighing scales tip over more than you expect them to and you wonder where all the extra weight has come from. If that scenario sounds familiar to you, then you’re a victim of your own negligence. In other words, you are oblivious to the effects of those so called delicacies that make their way down your gullet. Holding back from treating your taste buds at the expense of the rest your body, can be especially difficult if you’re fighting the war of fat. But that’s not the case if you’re determined to shed those pounds like Mohsin. “I was over a hundred kilos and I’ve brought down my weight drastically over a period of two years. I still have some ways to go before I reach my target weight. So when ever there are any festive occasions, I make a conscious effort to keep my hunger pangs at bay. This way, I avoid putting piling on the pounds,” says a now trim looking Mohsin.
Another group of people for whom health alarms start ringing around the festive season, are people stricken with cholesterol, heart problems or diabetes. For them, it is strictly an issue of vital health being maintained. Says Sekhar, a diabetic: “though I would love to cut loose and hog on my favourite food during times of celebration, my diabetes just doesn’t allow me to.” For people who are normally healthy, with no issues of obesity or otherwise, after a long season of merriment and feasting, it’s just a matter of detoxifying to get back on track. Elucidates Ramesh, a fitness instructor: “for most of my clients who have no weight problems as such, I suggest strong green tea, which is a wonderful detoxifying agent.”
KENNETH DAMARA
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