You were doing so good with your fitness, but came the work pressure, and everything just blew away. Now, you are working till late in the night; getting up early to be on time; feeling tired and down, and just bloody miserable. And naturally, the exercise is the last item in the priority list. The diet schedule has gone to dogs, and even they don’t give a hoot about it.

On one fine Sunday morning you get up late, and drag yourself to the washroom to see your familiar self in the crystal clear mirror. But what you see gives you a surprise, and not a pleasant one either. Your six-packs are gone. Instead, you see a pudgy thing which is your new achievement. Yes, it is the result of your work pressure, and the depression that was on and off- depending on how the day had gone for you. So, what to do now?

Yes, I heard you. No more next week. Yes, I can understand that you do not have time or the mental state to hit the gym. But, you can still do a few things. Take the stairs to your tenth floor office; stop taking sugar in your coffee; take your dinner light and early. Avoid junk food and be aware of the calories you are consuming. No, it’s not a big task. Google can give you all the answers. You just need to divert a few minutes away from your Facebook and LinkedIn account. If you keep checking calories before eating, you’ll be a walking encyclopedia on calorie counts in a fortnight.

Try to work in front of a standing workstation. Just be aware that you are not to sit in the chair a second more than it’s necessary to do so. And when you have to go to another block- jog, don’t walk. And if you have to walk, walk fast.

And of course, you are not supposed to skip a meal. Take your meals on time so that your body doesn’t go in the calorie hoarding mode.

Let’s hope that you can slowly go back to your old fitness schedule. We rarely get perfect circumstances, so improvisation is so essential. To know more about functional fitness and flexible fitness and weight loss tips, please check my nine part series on this blog. You just need to scroll down and give me a few clicks. And, let me know if I have written anything of use, or it was just self praising crap. For your convenience, I am giving a few links here- https://bastavar.wordpress.com/2019/05/05/health-fitness-and-weight-loss-sustaining-it-journey-to-weight-loss-and-fitness-8/ and here is another to motivate you- https://bastavar.wordpress.com/2018/09/02/my-weight-loss-journey-running-away-to-fitness/ ( These are click baits. But, who knows these few clicks may get you the inspiration you need for the fitness achievement. So, give me few clicks and get the inspiration. It is such a fair deal.)

One more thing- get out of this feeling of gloom and get a handle on your mind which is attracting all this negativity like a magnet. The mind is a tiger which needs to be tamed- https://bastavar.wordpress.com/2019/07/20/tame-the-tiger/ ( yeah, yeah …this is also from one of my posts. Give me more clicks.) You need to feel motivated to get out there and kick some ass, and fight the challenge that is called ‘life’.

Be fit, be tough, and face the day.

Best of Luck!

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(Forced by the inevitability of health reasons, the author of this series of blogs lost twenty-eight Kgs of excess body weight in six months, and attained a superior level of fitness. This series is an attempt to share the experience and whatever knowledge he had gained during this process. Please feel free to write in either the comments section or mail at bastavarzumi@gmail.com for any advice on exercises, diet, and daily routine. I will try to share my own experience to the best of my knowledge. Always remember that you feel so much better, physically and psychologically, when your BMI is 23 (my present BMI) than it is 34 (when I was obese). Achieving fitness and weight loss is possible and doable. You just need to make a start. The author plans to write on various diets, exercise regimes, problems of adjusting exercise in the daily routine, modifying diet with minimum change to your dietary habits, various ideas for sticking to the diet, understanding the roles of various micro and macro nutrients for your health, fitness and weight loss, and so on.)