Wedding Drama Series: Part 1

This series is a consequence of the many many wedding invitations we have received in the last fortnight for the coming months! The wedding season is j-uuust round the corner and whether you are the lucky bride-to be or an anxious bridesmaid looking for the perfect dress or the best friend looking to tuck in those love handles, THIS series is for you. All the diets, workouts and tips given in this series are tested. By us,ofcourse! So be assured that we have done ALL of this before you, unless mentioned, and seen the results and our bodies are still sore!But we're all pumped to show you how to feel sooo fabulous :)

Beginning with simple things first, The cleanses. A cleanse is typically done in order to remove toxins from your body and should be followed from 3days to about 7 days. There are cleanses for upto a month too :O
But seriously, we think your body will need nutrition after 3 days since you will be working out too!
So here's our favourite cleanse, which you can combine with steamed vegeables/fruits incase you feel hungry the first day. You can also include soups, broth and home-made fresh juices in order to ease your system into the cleansing routine. And drink lots of water in order to help your system flush the toxins better.Very importantly, please do not confuse the master cleanse to a diet program or stay only on the cleanse if you feel too weak. The idea is to eliminate processed food, meat and dairy and include liquids which help clean your body. But typically it involves drinking of the following concoction as many times as you want:

• 2 tablespoons fresh-squeezed lemon juice.
• 2 tablespoons grade-B organic maple syrup.
• 1/10 teaspoon cayenne pepper.
• 10 ounces filtered water.

You can also drink green tea/chamomile tea/jasmine tea or any other laxative tea for dinner. Please do not confuse this program to a diet plan. We suggest you keep a normal intake of the foods the following foods during the day(except dinner) too:

-Soups/Broths

-Fruits/Steamed Vegetable

-Freshly made juices

Though many people have stated that the master cleanse helps drop weight if done for a more than 2 weeks (Beyonce is reportedly known to have lost 20 pounds through this "lemonade diet"), we believe that if done without any of the above food supplements for over 7 days, the cleanse will remove lean muscles and liquid from your body rather than the fat which you want to lose.

Start with the cleanse and within the next 3 days we will teach you how to get back into regular food as well as workout plans for that wedding that is juust round the corner!

Till then, Happy Cleansing!

'When the going gets fat,the fat go hungry'

DIETS. To some people,its a hopelessly alienated word, which almost marks them a notch above the rest, as they do not 'need' to diet, they can celebrate their walnut cakes and their waistlines, at the same time. While to most of us, we believe, its is a death knell. In a society which is obsessing over skinny, just being fit is not enough. Just 'looking great' is not enough. And as Kalli Purie, writer of Confessions of a Serial Dieter' puts it, even men are not thinking about sex these days, they are obsessing over WEIGHT !
Yes, the return of plus size women on the runway and Vidya Balan's uninhibited 'dare to bare' act in 'Dirty Picture' might boast of the triumph of beauty minus the size and might sound extremely liberating, but deep down, inside your diet-obsessed mind, you know you want to wear those hot-pants 'because you wanna look hotter then her'.

But here comes the fall, when do you start? And most importantly, HOW? If you yourself are also a self-confessed serial-dieter, then you will know that if we lay down courses of various diets here and somehow brain-wash you into following,we'd be spilling out a truck-load of crap. So which way to go and how to customize your diet to your lifestyle and body-type? Or not eat at all. Or eat only lettuce for 143 days. Basically, how not to kill one-self, while also ensuring shrinking tummy progress?
Kalli Purie who has gone from flab at 103 kgs to fab at 60kgs, and on 43 diets so far, seems to be the best person relate to in her book 'Confessions of a Serial Dieter' ! And from the looks of it, the idea seems fun.
But its not.
Kalli talks about 'addiction to food' similar to 'alcoholism' and how the addict never seems to stop at one. Fighting temptation is one bit, and pushing yourself back into the battleground after you slip up is another mountain. Pushing, crawling, fighting, marching across this field of elusive ,hideous,unpopular fat into the world of transformation and watch yourself turn into a delicate,beautiful butterfly is what probably forms the most part inspiration you can derive from the book.

The Book Cover

Kalli Purie (current)

With Sonam Kapoor at the book launch

Sonam Kapoor launches 'Confessions of a serial dieter' in Delhi

Here are a few excerpts:

'There is a famous fable about transformation- The Ugly Duckling. An ugly duckling changes into a beautiful swan. When she is an ugly duckling, everyone shuns her. She is lonely and sad. But then she becomes a beautiful swan and everyone loves her and wants to be her friend. Fairytales are gruesome and politically incorrect but it's the stuff we grow up on. It's hardwired into you: fat and unattractive is unpopular; thin and beautiful is popular. But once you lose more than 20 kg, it's no longer a change like that of the ugly duckling to a swan; it's a whole transformation. A metamorphosis. Transformation of this nature is akin to that of a caterpillar into a butterfly'




'Dieticians and trainers can tell you what to do and help you do it. But they have not done it. I have.'




' Fat is a silent killer, depositing itself around you, making you lethargic and slow and inefficient. Fat is infectious, so your mind starts losing its edge too. It becomes lazy like the body it resides in'




'Confessions of a Serial Dieter can be purchased from your local stores or can be purchased online from www.theserialdieter.com at INR 250.

But if you want to rock it 'diet-diva' style then find it at a svelte cost of INR168 only  at one of our favourite online shopping portals,FLIPKART, here. We already have(and trust the portal for speeedy-deliveries)!