Friday, March 15, 2013

My Longing to travel.. Why do i travel? Why do i want to travel?

I want to wake up everyday and have it be on my own terms. 
Like 
If i feel like going to work, I do that, 
If i feel like writing, i do that
If i feel like doing yoga, then i do yoga
If i feel like a poem is coming through me, having the space to pen that down
If i feel like connecting with somebody i do that. 
If i feel like reading a book and plug in mubu's trance into ears, i do that. 
If i feel like going for a swim, do that 
If i feel like teaching yoga, i do that. 
No schedule. My schedule.

Why am i afraid to have such a structure in my life? Because i sometimes become lazy and get sucked into the very things that i created to escape the real world (things like mindless-facebooking, browsing, people pleasing, watching movies, tv shows.. and so on.. you get the idea!..) instead of focusing on other deeper longings in me. 

So i have decided. To travel. There are less or no distractions. No one to ask you questions, no known people to interact with you. You get to meet people with great thoughts, great minds, calm sense of self. Living! not to pretend living! Not so that you can take some pictures and show your friends that you have been to cool place. Not just so that you visit that place soullessly and just tick it off your list. But to enjoy there.. soak in it.. be in it.. sink in it.. Not to just get drunk and miss other things.. But to be with my thoughts, emotions, explore my meditation, explore many books (like mystic's musings, Fountainhead, atlas shrugged, The Celestine prophecies, The immortals of meluha, the razor's edge, Siddharta), get soaked in the wisdom of many great thinkers (like Sadhguru, Osho, Somerset Maugham, Jack Redfield, Hermen Hesse), be with my music.. to have some adventures like in the movie "into the wild", meet incredible people from the movie "the art of travel".. To see if i can live off a happy life with just my yoga, teaching what i know, to learn farming, agriculture, to get fit not by hitting the gym but by manual labour, to increase my stamina not by running on a treadmill but by working on farm lands. 

Just living everyday as an inspirational i can get, as inspiring as it can be! To create mindlessly! Just living to write and working to earn for the day! Everyday ~ to learn, courage, challenge, joy, abundance, celebration and love.

Right now, I am on a travel adventure called Artistic yoga. It is too rich and potent to call it anything less..

You think i have got it wrong somewhere, everywhere? Then tell me! or Challenge me, Criticize me! Or inspire me Or else join me ;)

Monday, February 25, 2013

15 Day Fat Loss Diet

Lunch: Boiled chicken with tomato, cucumber & yogurt.


















Dinner: Oat meal with honey and pomegranate


















Recently I did a diet experiment on reducing the fat percentage in the body. I had lost upto 2Kgs during this time. More importantly my subcutaneous fat level went from 17.6 to 16.2 %. Energy levels was good those days and face was brighter!

Along with this diet, i was also working out at the gym and did yoga for most of the days. Earlier, without the diet, but with workout and yoga, i had not lost weight and didn't do any fat percentage measurement.

My Purpose of doing this diet was to see if i can enjoy eating only raw food (with eggs, milk, honey). I have found out that given the environment i live in, it is difficult for me to resist from temptations (rolls, melting moments, oily curries). Currently, I am not following any particular diet pattern, however, i am making a new plan which would be a combination of fixed diet (healthy, nutritious and mainly raw) + spontaneous eating (freedom to eat oily foods, rolls and chocolates).

The new diet would be in accordance to the following in the order of priority:
  1. Tasty
  2. Variety
  3. Nutritious
  4. Healthy
  5. Cost Effective
  6. Energetic
  7. High Protein
  8. Less Oil usage
  9. Easy to prepare

Diet Plan (11-Jan-2013 to 24-Jan-2013)





DateBreakfastSnacksLunchSnacksDinner
111-jan-20134 Bananas
Oat+Milk, Endura mass Protein Shake
1.5 Apple, 1 pear, 2 carrots, 
1 mousambi in milk + honey
2

12-Jan-2013Bournvita, 4 Bananas
Protein shake, 
Muskmelon juice
Roasted Chicken subway sandwich 
(only sweet onion, mustard and mint sauce)

Raddish Soup - half boiled (Raddish,
 pinch of oil, salt, turmeric)
313-jan-20131 pear1 Apple
Steamed Chicken Momos, a bit of 
popcorn (It was an indulgence)
A large Coffee
Spinach Juice, Beetroot soup - half 
boiled (beetroot, radish, cabbage)
414-Jan-20134 BananasA large Coffee
Cabbage+Tomatos+Onions+Yogurt+
lime+Ginger+pepper+Salt (raw)
Protein Shake, 2 Egg whites, 
Spinach Juice
Spinach juice, Oats+ milk+ pear
515-Jan-20134 Bananas2 Banana
Spinach + Cucumber+ tomato+lime+
pepper+rock salt (semi boiled)
Pomegranate Milk Shake+
honey, Mosambi Juice+honey
Spinach Juice, 3 egg whites, 
Oats+mousambi+pomogranate
616-Jan-2013
4 Bananas
A large Coffee
Spinach Juice, 
1 mausambi
Spinach Juice, 3 egg whites, Oats+ 
nuts + honey

Subway roasted chicken, 
1 Cup cooked dal
717-Jan-20134 Bananas2 bananas
Cabbage + Tomato + Raddish + Lemon+
 Curd + Kellogs fruit & nut cereals
Chicken Delite soup, 
Tomato soup
Eggs Scrambled made with less oil
818-Jan-20134 Bananas
Carrot+milk+honey+
dry fruits (cashews, 
almonds and raisins)
Boiled (2 whistles in cooker) Beetroot+
boiled corn+onions, 2 Beetroot juice, 
Oats+honey, Bournvita + milk
3 Egg whites
5 min boiled Bottle gourd+radish+
tomato+raw cucumber
919-Jan-20134 Bananas
Pav Bhaji + Boiled Marinated(turmeric, 
rock salt, pinch chilli powder, 4tsp curd)
Chicken (1 tsp oil+ mustard seed+ onion+ tomato +
250 gm chicken)

5 min boiled Bottle Gourd+carrot+
Cucumber+Tomato+raw cucumber, 
Banana+dry fruits Milk shake
1020-Jan-2013
Bournvita+honey,
4 Bananas
2 Bananas
Cucumber+carrot+tomato juice, 
3 Egg whites,
 1 bournvita+ honey
Mixed fruit juice
2 cups dal, 1 Roasted Chicken Subway, 
2 eggs scrambled, bournvita + honey
1121-Jan-20133 Bananas + 2 coffeeBanana Milk Shake
Tomato+ cumber juice, 1/2 cup Dal, 
Chicken

Egg Scrambled
Biriyani + Paneer
1222-Jan-2013Biriyani + Paneer
2 Cups Dal1 Roasted Chicken Subway
250GM Boiled chicken Chicken + 
cucumber salad
1323-jan-20131 Apple, 1 coffee
Cucumber, Tomato, Brocolli
Protein shake, 3 egg whites, 
250GM Boiled chicken

Brocolli+ Raddish+ Cabbage+ Tomato+
Salt + Pepper Slightly cooked with 
sprinkled oil, Egg Scrambled
1424-jan-20134 Bananas
Oat+Milk
250GM Boiled chicken Chicken+
cucumber salad
Roti, Sabji, Dal
1525-jan-2013Eggs scrambled
Roti, Sabji, Dal
Spinach Juice
Roti, Sabji, Dal

* All mentioned in the red colour are indulgences, where i didn't strictly follow the diet.