Health and Fitness

To fight with the enemy you need to understand your enemy. First of all please don’t be worried if you become stressful at times…! It’s a very natural phenomenon to become stressful. It’s result of our natural evolutionary process and body’s FLIGHT AND FIGHT response to challenging circumstances. However, it becomes dangerous if we are not able to come out of stressful mind and stay in that zone for longer.  Its chronic if we live in that zone habitually. Lets understand body’s mechanism which makes us stressful. Like any other feeling, stress is also driven by particular hormone secretion in our brain which in case of stress is triggered by any perceived threat. You can compare stress to the body as in defense mechanism of a country. As soon as mind perceives any threat say, in work responsibility or family to serious life events such as a new diagnosis, war, or the death of a loved one, stress response get triggered to save you from this situations. Body goes into FIGHT or FLIG...

This is the question asked maximum times to google on weight loss. So thought of answering this. People try many things to achieve their weight loss goal. For example first is, I believe, starting workouts, then many popular fad diets, then comes eating less and skipping meals, avoiding calories at any cost and many more. But does it work? And even if it helps to shed few pounds from body, is it healthy? So to understand this, let us first find out what causes unwanted weight gain at first place? Weight gain is a function of many things that happen in body simultaneously. You can say weight gain is a function of hormonal function, calorie surplus, water retention, stress level. People normally over simplify it as calorie surplus. This notion originates from the equation Energy stored (fat) = Energy In – Energy out. That is the stored fat in body is only dependent on amount of energy we consume in form of food minus the amount of calorie we burn. And normally exercising is linked to b...