How to Get Back to Your Fitness Routine After Festival Season

Learn what works from a nutritionist, a person who experiments too often on himself, and a relatively normal person.

Learn what works from a nutritionist, a person who self-experiments too often for comfort, and a person who’s normal, on Episode 1 of Season 2 of Vishnu Ki Secret Life.

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Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. Festival season is here, you’ve had a few weeks of eating good rich food, mithai, cake, and other delicious things… And suddenly your clothes fit a little tighter!

This is Episode 1 of Season 2 of Vishnu Ki Secret Life – the show where you learn something new through my own experiments, and with the help of experts and others who’ll be joining me. Today we’re talking about how to get back on track when you either stop a diet or fail on the way to your goal!

Despite everything on Season 1 of Vishnu Ki Secret Life – knowing all the ways and the science behind it, I defaulted on my health this year. I ignored all the lessons I’d learned and put on like 10-12 kg. And then I was sad.

So, I thought, let me take a step back from my own advice and speak to a nutritionist and an expert in the field. And that’s our first guest on this episode, Kavita Devgan.

She’s a nutritionist and weight management consultant as well as the author of Don't Diet! 50 Habits Of Thin People and Ultimate Grandmother Hacks.

I also spoke to my brother, Vivek, who recently got back to being healthy, after steadily gaining weight for most part of the last two years. Growing up, we’d both been overweight or even obese for quite some time of our life.

So today, Kavita, Vivek and I will tell you different ways to get back to a healthy routine IF you’ve wandered off the path and find your clothes tighter than usual.

I don’t know about you, but I’m usually happy when winter comes because I know I can hide any extra weight I’ve gained under a big jacket, and usually at this time of year, weight does tend to pile on, doesn’t it?