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Belly fat and the South Asian body
Why Indian men gain it at lower weights, why the usual advice misses, and what actually moves it.
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From the practice
Field notes from an Exercise Physiologist. What's working. What we threw out.
nutrition · 4 min
Intermittent fasting with Indian food: what works, what breaks
IF can fit Indian eating patterns beautifully or collapse them entirely. The difference is protein and the chai.
fat loss · 5 min
Losing weight before an Indian wedding — without starving through it
Twelve weeks is enough to change how you look and feel at the function. Crash dieting is how you waste them.
lifestyle · 5 min
PCOS, training, and the Indian diet: what actually helps
PCOS makes weight loss harder, not impossible. Strength training is the most underused tool in the box.
nutrition · 5 min
How to hit your protein on an Indian diet
Dal alone will not get you there. Here is the honest maths, and how to fix it without giving up your food.
nutrition · 4 min
You do not have to give up rice and roti to lose fat
Carbs are not the enemy. The plate ratio is. Here is how to keep your food and still see the waist move.
sleep · 4 min
Sleep: the fat-loss lever nobody programs
Six hours a night can cancel a perfect diet. What short sleep does to fat loss, and the fixes that survive real life.
lifestyle · 5 min
The South Asian heart: why we're at risk earlier, and what training changes
Heart disease arrives up to a decade earlier in South Asians. Exercise is the cheapest protection ever tested.
nutrition · 5 min
The South Indian diet and weight loss: idli, dosa, rice — and results
You can lose fat on a South Indian diet. You cannot lose it on the default proportions. Here is the fix.
strength · 5 min
Stop training like you're 25
After 35 the rules change — recovery, joints, and what actually builds muscle. Twelve things to do differently.
fat loss · 5 min
The fat-loss pyramid
Five tiers that decide your result. Most people skip the bottom two and wonder why the top three fail.
knee pain · 5 min
Training around knee pain
What is usually safe, what usually isn't, and why 'just rest it' is rarely the answer.
nutrition · 5 min
Paneer, dal, soya, besan: the vegetarian protein rankings
Every vegetarian protein in the Indian kitchen, ranked by what actually matters — protein per serve, per rupee, and per stomach.
lifestyle · 4 min
Vitamin D and the Indian body in Australia
Living in the sunniest country on earth and still deficient — why it happens to us specifically, and what to do.
fat loss · 4 min
Stop counting calories. Start counting these instead.
Calorie apps fail most people within a month. The fix is not more discipline — it is counting fewer, better things.
prediabetes · 6 min
A creeping HbA1c is a warning, not a sentence
What the number means, and the three levers that move it — often without medication.
fat loss · 5 min
Why fat loss stalls after 40
The problem is rarely willpower. It is usually protein, muscle, and sleep — in that order.
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