Now losing those extra flab is just a click away. India's first online weight loss programme by Dev Khosla is gaining popularity. Here's what the owner Dev Khosla has to say:
1. How much weight did you lose, what inspired you to lose weight? How did this help you with your business idea?
I lost 20 kgs over a period of a year. I was preparing to go for my undergraduate studies to Singapore. When I did go to Singapore, most of my friends were very fit. I called up my mother based in India ( she, as you know is the country's leading nutritionist, Dr. Ishi Khosla) and told her that I seriously wanted to lose weight. My mother sent me a diet plan over email. This plan was prepared by her post a phone call where I explained my current lifestyle and my diet at that time. I maintained an excel sheet where I would enter the details of what I had eaten during the day, and at the end of the day, I would send the excel sheet back to her for a performance review. She would send the excel sheet back to me the next morning with 2 colored comments. A green colored comment was for the times I had done well, and a red colored comment for the foods that could have been avoided. So for me, each day was an attempt to get more of the green comments and eliminate the red colors. Gradually, I would get all greens and the results started showing. I lost weight and even after 7 years on, I have been able to keep it off.
I thought to myself, that if I can lose weight across geographies and if we were to create a program, that was well structured, as personalized, and affordable, millions of other people could lose weight too. That is how I came up with Theweightmonitor.com.
2. Maintaining is tougher than loosing weight, how do you do it?
The only difference between weight maintenance and weight cycling is how you lose weight.
If you follow a diet that is extremely strict, is based on just cutting down calories or is a fad diet, chances are you will lose weight short-term, but will put the weight back on as well.
The reason is very simple. Ask yourself, how long can you starve on a low calorie diet? And once you loose weight through such as diet, the weight cycles right back and it becomes harder for you to lose weight the second time around.
The primary reason people put on weight is because of bad food habits and lack of exercise over a period of time. The trick is to fix it. Improve your eating habits, understand your how your body reacts to your medical conditions, lifestyle, and different foods, gain knowledge about various kinds of food that are good and bad. The principle to follow is to learn to eat right. Once you learn the art of eating right, you can follow the same principle for the rest of your life.
3. How is theweightmonitor.com different from other online weight loss sites?
We are different simply because our approach to loose weight in not count calories but to focus on the right intake of Nutrition coupled with the type and time of food groups that one consumes. So for us it is not how many calories you eat but what food groups you are consuming.
4. Can you share some easy tips to lose all the winter weight and get your body summer ready?
It is advisable to follow the tips given below:
• Step-out and work-out- even if its means a walk in the park. You must walk for at least 40-45 minutes every day. Include a daily cardio work -out ( walk) into your routine- You cannot attain fitness levels and a healthy body without exercise and there is not short-cut to good health.
• Step up your intake of raw vegetables, as salad or vegetable juice. I have noticed that most people douse their salads with dressing- once you put the dressing on - you add unhealthy calories to your healthy salad- rather ask for dressing on the side, if you really need it. I recommend sticking to a light squeeze of lime juice and extra virgin olive oil for the dressing. Second, freshly squeeze fruit juices are again not a very healthy option- if you do want to quench that thirst, I suggest you stick to vegetable juices instead and keep them garnished with just black pepper and coriander. Please understand too much of salt is also bad for the body.
• Watch and limit intake of sugar: In short, restrict, the amount of sugar and sugar syrups that you use in your daily intake of coffee, tea and other beverages. The ideal way is to eliminate sugar from your diet-Sugar has no role to play in your nutrient balance and your body hardly needs any sugar additives.
• Limit intake of salt to help you avoid water retention: Evenings are the time that you should be especially cautious of your salt intake, my suggestion avoid anything salty post sundown. You will feel less bloated and more relaxed.
• Eat an early dinner between 7:00-7:30 p.m. I usually recommend an early supper because calories consumed after sundown are the least consumed and most stored. So simple rule follow the sun-meal-rule, the heaviest meals when the sun is at its brightest and the thereafter let the meals get lighter and therefore finish off your super before sun-down. Remember you are banking everything you consume just before sleeping.
• Try and have one raw meal a day, which includes salad and fruit. This is a must, most of us focus on increasing the intake of proteins in their diets, however, equally important is the intake of RAW fruits and vegetables in summers....so increase your intake of cucumbers, tomatoes, those succulent sweet limes et al.
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