Holistic Nutrition Works

29/07/2025

05/07/2025

Day 18: Butterful Life
Why Milk Isn’t Just a Drink—It’s a Weight Loss Ritual

In the era of fancy superfoods and boutique diets, it's easy to forget that one of nature’s most complete foods has always been quietly sitting on our breakfast table—milk.

When a baby is born, it doesn’t need supplements, pills, or even a drop of water. Just mother’s milk. For nearly two years, it fuels growth, boosts immunity, and builds the gut microbiome. If nature calls that “complete,” who are we to argue?

In Indian tradition, milk has always had a place of reverence—next only to mother’s milk. And yet, today’s urban myths and Western-imported ideologies have cast doubt on its value. The truth? The problem isn’t milk. It’s misinformation.

Let’s clear a few things up:

Ghee on hot rice or roti? Good. Ghee in sweets made from Maida, deep-fried and sugar-loaded? Not good.

Butter smeared on hot phulkas? Yes. On cream-filled pastries? No.

Concerned about lactose? Many who are “lactose intolerant” handle curd or buttermilk just fine—thanks to fermentation and the power of probiotics.

Heard of whey protein as a ‘better’ option? That’s like saying pure oxygen is better than air. 100% oxygen is toxic. Nature is balanced for a reason.

Fermented dairy products like curd and buttermilk restore gut flora. And remember, the health of your gut is the gateway to the health of your weight.

Even satiety plays a role:
A bowl of curd with a little rice fills you faster than two full rotis. A glass of milk before breakfast cuts cravings better than any willpower chant. It’s not about restriction—it’s about ritual.

So here’s your Day 18 exercise:
Drink your milk. Eat your curd. Start your meal with buttermilk.
Embrace a butterful life—not just as a taste, but as a strategy.

Add rice to your curd. Don’t drown curd in rice.
Add chapati to your buttermilk. Not the other way around.
And remember: A food group that helped you grow as a baby can still help you shrink your waistline as an adult.

Tomorrow, we bite into something far more colorful and surprisingly deceptive: a fruit that’s not quite what it seems.

04/07/2025

Day 17: Bitter to Better

The Grapes Were Never Sour—You Just Deserved Sweeter Ones

We all know the tale of the fox and the sour grapes. He couldn’t reach them, so he claimed they weren’t worth it.
This isn’t just a children’s fable—it’s how many of us live.

When we struggle with weight, illness, or unmet goals, we develop bitterness. “It’s in my genes.” “This diet won’t work for me.” “I’ve tried everything.”

What if, instead, we could flip that script—from bitter… to better?
Desperation is the hidden poison of the wellness world.

We join programs, punish ourselves in gyms, starve our plates—all in a frenzy to become “not fat.” But your subconscious isn’t a spreadsheet. It runs on emotion. And when you fuel it with desperation and shame, it slows your metabolism—not to sabotage you, but to protect you from perceived threat.

That’s the paradox of intent:
The more bitter your mindset, the harder your body clings to fat. Because fat, remember, is your friend. A messenger. A shield. An archive of your emotional life.

Consider Annette Fredskov—diagnosed with a condition that would supposedly leave her paralyzed in six months. She didn’t protest. She accepted it with grace.
And in that space of acceptance, she walked, then ran, and eventually completed 366 marathons in a single year.
No drama. Just dignity.
The shift? She accepted where she was—and chose to grow from it.

So much of our metabolic imbalance comes from inner resistance. Not just to weight, but to relationships, finances, life circumstances.

A small boy given a heavier shopping bag can think, “Why me?” or “My aunt believes in my strength.” Same action. Different story. Different chemistry in the body.

Today’s exercise:
When life gives you lemons… pause. Don’t sulk. Don’t react.
Just whisper: “Let me see what lemonade I can make with this.”
Acceptance is not resignation. It is the soil in which better takes root.

Tomorrow, we explore a forgotten emotion that fat quietly carries. One that’s not bitter at all.

04/07/2025

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03/07/2025

Day 16: Lean is Mean

Why Muscles Are the Metabolic Gold You’ve Been Ignoring

Two people. Same age. Same weight. Same height.

One of them burns fat in their sleep. The other can’t lose weight even after dieting.

The difference? Lean Body Mass.

Lean body mass—your muscles, bones, organs, and water content—is your metabolic engine. It’s the part of your body that works, that burns, that breathes life into your weight loss journey.

Want to see it visually?

Think of a vibrant apartment complex—full of people, movement, meals, and energy. Now picture a massive empty warehouse—silent, underused, consuming next to nothing.

Your muscle cells are that apartment complex.

Your fat cells? The godown.

Even at rest, muscle burns calories just to maintain itself. Fat, meanwhile, is metabolically passive. It stores. It hoards. It waits.

So here’s the twist:
Losing fat is not just about burning it off. It’s about building more lean mass to naturally out-burn fat—every single day.

And that’s where protein steps in. Whether it’s from fish, chicken, dals, pulses, or seeds, protein is the raw material your body uses to repair, regenerate, and build.

But here's the catch
You can’t just consume protein and hope to build lean muscle. You must create demand too. Move. Stretch. Lift.

No gym needed. Even a water bottle works. Your body doesn’t need fancy—it just needs consistency.

Also, flip the plate:
Don’t eat rice with a little dal. Eat dal with a little rice.
That small change builds a leaner, meaner version of you.

Today’s reflection:
Prioritize protein.
Stimulate your muscles.
Nourish them well.
Let them silently do the work fat never will.

And tomorrow?
We talk about something even leaner than muscle—your inner dialogue. What if the real weight holding you back… is bitterness?

02/07/2025

Day 15: The Old Monk
Where Attention Goes, Metabolism Grows

Imagine working in a massive corporation with thousands of employees. One day, the CEO walks straight into your department, takes your name, acknowledges your effort, and talks about your contribution to the company’s success. How would you feel? Elated. Motivated. Alive.

That’s exactly what happens when your conscious mind—usually preoccupied with the chaos of the outside world—finally pays attention to your body.

We are made up of 100 trillion cells, each running close to 6 billion chemical reactions per second. These cells, despite their microscopic size, sustain life. But most of us spend 99% of our attention outward—facing the world’s demands—and barely offer a glance inward.

Try this: hold your thumb gently, close your eyes, and feel the pulse. Now shift that awareness across your body. You’ll notice the entire system pulsating in quiet harmony. This is not just relaxation—it’s metabolism being reignited. Your energy-hungry brain, which normally consumes 20% of your calories, finally quiets down. The saved energy? Redirected to your body’s internal housekeeping.

This practice, rooted in ancient yogic wisdom, is what we call Conscious Housekeeping.

The story of a senior army doctor proves the point. Despite never training for it, he effortlessly outpaced a trained soldier in a 5K run. His only secret? Years of daily pranayama and meditative stillness. When the mind becomes an ally instead of a drain, the body performs magic.

This is the true meaning of the old monk’s wisdom—not in isolation, but in intimate attention to the self. In the stillness of presence, metabolism awakens.

Exercise for Day 15:
Enjoy your Me Time. Just 20 minutes a day. Sit in silence. Close your eyes. Stay awake. Let your thoughts wander if they must—don’t fight them. No control, no goal. Just awareness. And over time, your inner CEO will show up for the real work.

Coming up tomorrow: Day 16 – Lean is Mean
What if the secret to fat loss isn't losing fat—but building something else altogether?

01/07/2025

Day 14: Miles to Go Before I Sleep
From Wakefulness to Weightlessness

In a world that celebrates the hustle, sleep has become the most undervalued pillar of health. Many wear sleeplessness as a badge of honor—chasing deadlines, binge-watching into the night, or proudly quoting Robert Frost: “Miles to go before I sleep.”

But let’s pause for a moment.

What if weight gain isn’t just about what you eat or how much you move—but also when you rest?

Here’s the truth we often overlook: your metabolism is not just active during the day. It's doing heavy lifting while you sleep. Growth hormone, melatonin, cellular repair, hormonal recalibration—all this magic happens when you surrender to the night. But our screens, stress, and social life have hijacked this rhythm, throwing the body's biological clock into chaos.

We glorify the grind. We delay rest. But in doing so, we sabotage the very system designed to heal and optimize us.

Your body isn’t lazy—it’s exhausted. And exhaustion stores fat.

Today’s exercise:
Sleep your weight to weight loss. Set a fixed bedtime. Keep gadgets out of the bedroom. Avoid stimulants post-dinner. Journal or breathe your way into rest. Track your sleep quality, if possible. Let the night restore what the day unravels.

Because sometimes, the most powerful act of discipline is simply going to bed on time.

Coming up tomorrow: Day 15 — The Old Monk
The only bottle that truly intoxicates the soul is the one we never see coming.

30/06/2025

Day 13: The Matrix
If fat is the villain, who wrote the script?

Holistic healing begins not with the symptoms, but with the system. And to decode the system, we must question the very nature of reality itself.

We’ve been conditioned to think our body is a machine. That the heart is a pump, the brain a processor, and fat… a malfunction. So we try to “fix” fat—burn it, cut it, starve it—treating it like an unwanted glitch.

But here’s a radical question: Is fat even real?

Physics—especially quantum physics—tells us that what we experience as reality is, in fact, an illusion. A hologram. A matrix. Reality, it turns out, is not something we live in, it’s something we co-create. The observer (you) is not separate from the observed (your body).

The body is not a static object—it’s a TV screen playing out whatever signal your antenna (mind) is tuned into. If you keep watching the same channel of helplessness, you’ll keep seeing the same story. But here’s the twist: you can change the frequency.

Spiritual masters and physicists agree—this reality is participatory. You’re not a product of your genes, your upbringing, or your circumstances. You are the scriptwriter. If your story till now has been about suffering, you have the power to rewrite it—now.

Like Krishna telling Arjuna: “We’ve both lived many lives—you don’t remember them, but I do.”
Or Jesus inviting Peter to walk on water: “If you believe you are the son of God, you can do it too.”

It’s not a myth. It’s metaphysics.

So the fat on your body? It’s not a punishment. It’s a projection. A consequence of choices—often unconscious, often secondhand. But if consequences exist, so do choices. That’s your superpower.

Exercise for Day 13:
Accept and acknowledge the truth that all of us are blessed with free will.
Nobody—not your parents, not your doctor, not even your God—can override that.

You can write your own story, design your own screenplay, play your own hero, direct your own life—and be its sole audience. If the story you’ve written so far hasn’t inspired you, remember:
You always have the power to rewrite it. Starting now.

Coming up tomorrow: Day 14 – Miles to Go Before I Sleep
The most powerful medicine for weight loss might not be a diet or a workout plan—but something your body’s been silently begging for.

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29/06/2025

Day 12: Hateful Love
When the body remembers what the mind wants to forget.

There’s a story of a monk walking with his young disciples. As they reached a river, they saw a frightened young woman unable to cross. The monk, without hesitation, lifted her and carried her across. Hours passed in silence. Finally, one disciple, unable to hold his confusion, asked—“Master, we are celibates. How could you touch her?”

The monk smiled: “I left her by the riverbank. Why are you still carrying her?”

That is the disease of our times. Carrying the past. Nursing wounds long after the war is over.
Especially when it comes to weight.

Weight gain is rarely just about calories. It's often about memories stored in flesh.

Take a moment to reflect: if your body is carrying fat as a symptom, what might it be protecting you from?

In our practice, we see a pattern. Women with PCOS, hypothyroidism, emotional eating patterns—carry not just weight, but wounds.
Wounds of being touched inappropriately.
Wounds of neglect.
Wounds of growing up in households where love came with conditions.

Somewhere, deep inside, the child decides: “If I’m not attractive, maybe I’ll be safe.”
The body obeys.
Fat becomes armor.
Invisibility becomes a strategy.
Disgust becomes a recurring emotion.

And the world calls it laziness.

There’s another story: a child asks her parents why they won’t trust the housemaid with the keys to the safe. “Because it’s valuable,” they reply. The child quietly asks: “Then what am I?”

That question echoes in many of us who grew up emotionally orphaned.
Fat becomes a reserve tank of love we never received.
A misguided way for the body to say: “I’ll protect you when others couldn’t.”

The tragedy? We end up hating this very fat. Hating ourselves.
But the more you hate what happened, the more you revive the pain.
The past, like lemon on your tongue, activates real biochemical responses. Even if it’s just a memory.

So how do we heal?

With compassion. With forgiveness. With understanding that those who hurt us were likely hurt themselves.
As Jesus said, “Forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

And by asking a better question—not “Why me?” but “What is life trying to teach me?”

Exercise for Day 12:
Go back.
Not to relive the pain, but to identify the wound.
We call this age regression or memory mapping.
If something in your past is still holding space in your heart—release it. Let go.
Write a letter. Burn it. Cry.
Forgive them. Forgive yourself.
And stop punishing your body for your unhealed emotions.

Coming up tomorrow: Day 13 – The Matrix
What if you’ve never really made a free choice in your life?

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28/06/2025

Day 11: Punishing the Potato
The Emperor was naked. And so is the truth about vegetables.

Let me tell you a story.

There was once an emperor obsessed with fashion. Two clever swindlers convinced him they’d tailor a magical outfit—so refined that only the competent could see it. The emperor, not wanting to be called a fool, strutted naked through the streets. No one dared speak the truth... until a child blurted, “The king is naked!”

When it comes to food, we’ve become the emperor.
We parrot what the crowd believes. Rice is evil. Potatoes make you fat. Don’t touch carbs.
We stopped thinking. We just... complied.

So here’s me, playing the child in the crowd:
The potato is innocent.

Boiled, cooked whole with skin, 100g of potato gives you just 77 calories. It’s fat-free, rich in vitamin C, potassium, magnesium, and loaded with resistant starch that boosts gut health and metabolism.

But when we deep-fry it into chips? Or slice it into fries?
The same 100g jumps to 536 calories. Fat, sodium, micronutrients destroyed.
Then we blame the potato.
We punish the potato for our crime.

What’s worse? We punish all vegetables alike.
We boil, overcook, deep fry—denature the very nutrients we need for weight loss. Then proudly say, “I eat veggies daily!”
No, what we eat is memory of a vegetable—disguised in oil, salt, and denial.

Worse still, we ignore what the micronutrients in vegetables do: they’re the cofactors, the spark plugs for our metabolic fire. They delay gastric emptying, boost the thermic effect, and fuel the invisible labor of our gut flora. But who wants fiber when there’s fried bendi and buffet biryani?

You see the irony?

We want six-packs while dismembering salad bars.
We seek transformation, while still thinking French fries are a vegetable.

Exercise for Day 11:
Let’s restore justice to our vegetables.
✅ 1/3 of your daily veggie intake must be raw – salads.
✅ 1/3 should be boiled or steamed – retain those nutrients.
✅ 1/3 can be cooked – enjoy the flavor, but consciously.

Make half your plate plant-powered. Let vegetables do what supplements only promise.

Coming up tomorrow: Day 12 – Hateful Love
When food becomes both your biggest comfort... and your deepest wound.

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27/06/2025

Day 10: Eyes That Can’t See
You don’t need new eyes. You need to see what’s already there.

A nurse gives you an antibiotic, a painkiller, a tetanus shot for a minor wound. But pause—who’s actually doing the healing?
None of them.
It’s your body.

And yet, most of us miss this simple truth. Not because it’s hidden, but because our “eyes”—the deeper ones—have forgotten how to see.

We live in a narrow visual spectrum. Science says the human eye can perceive only a sliver of the electromagnetic field. We believe what we see. But what about gamma rays, infrared, ultraviolet? They exist. We just lack the lens to perceive them.

That’s what’s happening with our own body. We are consuming terabytes of visual data every waking hour—scrolls, reels, news flashes—all keeping our “central nervous system” (CNS) in survival mode, chasing reward and avoiding pain. So we conform. We imitate. We live a second-hand life. A borrowed belief. A borrowed body image. A borrowed weight-loss strategy.

We’ve become victims of victims.
Our parents gave us beliefs they never questioned. Society handed us roles it never examined. We’re told fat is ugly, thin is pretty, and anything outside that box needs to be fixed.
But can you fix what you haven’t even seen clearly?

Let’s go deeper.
Your body is not a machine. It’s a miracle in motion. From a single cell in your mother’s womb, it orchestrated billions of reactions to create you. That’s not a calorie game. That’s intelligence.
That’s metabolism.
That’s divine architecture.

But it’s sabotaged by your own thoughts. Your subconscious hears you say:
“I have thyroid. I am fat. I have diabetes.”
Like property listings.
You’ve signed ownership to disease. No wonder your body obeys.

Even the Bible says: “Ask, and it is given.”
The Upanishads echo: Yad Bhavam Tad Bhavati.
Whatever you affirm, becomes your reality.

So here’s what we do today.

Day 10 Exercise: Affirm What You Seek
Stand in front of a mirror.
Say this—out loud:
🟢 “I am happy.”
🟢 “I am healthy.”
🟢 “I am in perfect shape.”

Say it often.
Write it.
Visualize it.
Feel it.
Because your body listens not to facts, but to feelings. Emotion is its language.

And don’t forget what Rumi said:
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”

You don’t need a new body.
You just need to stop looking at it through borrowed eyes.

Coming up tomorrow in Day 11: Punishing the Potato
What if the real culprit behind your weight gain isn’t the potato—but your perception of it?

26/06/2025

Day 9 — Cousin’s Curse: How Your Mind Could Be Making You Fat

We’ve all had that one cousin, friend, or neighbor who just looks at food and gains weight — or so we think.

But what if the real weight isn’t in the paratha or the pastry… but in our perception?

Let’s begin with a curious stage experiment. A hypnotherapist gave a girl a glass of salt water, but suggested to her subconscious mind — now in deep trance — that it was sugar water. She drank it and smiled: “Yes, it’s sweet.”

What you believe, you become.

In another classic experiment from Harvard, elderly participants were immersed in a setting that mimicked the 1960s — music, furniture, magazines, everything. After just a few weeks, their blood pressure dropped. Posture improved. They had aged in reverse.
Why?
Because their mind believed it was 40 years younger — and the body responded.

Mind cannot take a joke.
If you keep repeating, “I’m fat,” your body listens.
If you live in regret, anxiety, or self-loathing, your metabolism follows suit.

Take the story of Norman Cousins — diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis and written off by doctors. He refused to accept the prognosis. Instead, he embraced laughter, optimism, and high-dose vitamin C. His famous book “Anatomy of an Illness” recounts how ten minutes of genuine belly laughter gave him two hours of pain-free sleep. He outlived every prediction.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Even Lord Rama, exiled, wronged, and torn from his beloved Sita, lived with dignity, never with despair.
Even Jesus, nailed to a cross, chose forgiveness over bitterness.

Their bodies were in pain, but their spirits never suffered. And so their stories still lift us — millennia later.

Exercise for Day 9: Be Cheerful for No Reason

Just laugh.
Stand in front of a mirror and smile at yourself.
Giggle, chuckle, laugh even if you don’t feel like it — especially if you don’t feel like it.
Joy is a muscle. Practice flexing it.
And you’ll notice — your body begins to feel lighter.

Coming up tomorrow in Day 10: Eyes That Can’t See
Is it your hunger that’s driving your hand… or hidden triggers in plain sight? Discover what you’ve been blind to all along.