The Single Most Important Factor for Long-Term Health & Fitness - 'Sustainability'

Yes! I’m saying, you CAN have your cake and eat it too! Such a sustainable approach to your nutrition is the single most fact that defines your long-term success in staying healthy, in shape and warding off lifestyle diseases.

- Rajiv Ambat

Have your Onam Sadhya, Payasam, and still be on a ‘Diet’!

Yes, you heard that right! First of all, I, personally do not like the word ‘diet’. Diet has a negative connotation - it is constraining, it reminds us of saying NO to our favorite food and being hungry all the time and perhaps eating only salads. Sadly, this is how quite a few of us relate to the word ‘diet’ and the idea of eating healthy! And that is why, I prefer the word ‘Nutrition’ over ‘Diet’. The word ‘nutrition’ has a positive overtone; it is about nurturing one’s body and making it healthy. It is also about building a healthy relationship with food.

I ask my clients - what is the point in living healthy if you cannot enjoy an Onam sadhya!? There is no point in living every day for a tomorrow, and never ever living a today! Eating healthy is not a punishment; it does not mean eating bland and tasteless food, or not having rice (carbs). One should learn to have an occasional indulgence and yet stay healthy. Yes! I’m saying, you CAN have your cake and eat it too! Such a sustainable approach to your nutrition is the single most fact that defines your long-term success in staying healthy, in shape and warding off lifestyle diseases.

Flexible fitness, for longterm sustainability