9 Quotes by Rujuta Diwekar

Sitting is the new smoking.

The fact that we haven’t learnt to reassert ourselves or talk about our innermost feelings to people who really matter, also adds to the burden. To support our thyroid, we must learn to speak our mind, tactfully yes, but speak for sure. It’s.

Being a parent is an opportunity; we must not let it pass. There’s plenty of time to be friends later. For now, be a parent; lead, guide.

Once upon a time, India was a land of sages and rishis who practised yoga as a way of life. No one went to classes then, and yoga didn’t have fancy names or a multimillion-dollar industry attached to it or promises of quickly fixing your stress, backache, asthma or whatever else.

What you do for 23 hours of your day will always have a greater bearing than what you do for 1 hour in the day.

There is a saying, ‘Complain or do something about it’. Taking inspiration from it, I’ve coined my own: ‘To break out of a vicious cycle, start working with the known factors to control the unknown.

Low fat snacks like baked chaklis, fat free ice creams, fibre loaded biscuits, etc are nothing but junk food coated with misinformation and some sharp marketing brain trying to sell them to a gullible audience which will bite onto anything that’s fat free.

On the other hand there are non-vegetarians who can’t stop pitying the poor ghas-phoos eating vegetarians. They argue that vegetarians are deprived of meat which is so rich in proteins and great in taste. But tell me how much of protein can your body assimilate when you stuff chicken biryani like there is no tomorrow or eat mutton and chicken in every form, size and shape at 3 am in the morning at Bade-miyaan after getting sloshed in the night with all the clubbing.

And above all you understand that fitness is not some statistical or mathematical measurement but an experience of freedom and joy within the body.