Introduction
If you have a body like Christiano Ronaldo or Hrithik Roshan, the below information is not for you!
For all the rest, who occasionally, regularly, ardently seek information on health hacks and diets that can get them in shape quickly. Let’s understand the history and science behind them. Most of us can relate to this in some fashion, even today! But as history often goes, it starts in the West.
What is Bant Diet all about?
“Bant Diet” was one of the first diets popular in the UK in the early 19th century. Banting was an astute and active carpenter, eager to shed a few pounds. His weight loss diet consisted of four meals daily: meat, greens, fruits, and dry wine. The emphasis was on avoiding sugar, sweet foods, starch, beer, milk, and butter. Banting’s pamphlet was famous for years to come.
Coupled with an exercise regime, it took Banting more than five months to lose around 14 kgs. He continued on this regime throughout his life to be around this weight till his passing.
It’s well-known that if you increase your physical activity level (start brisk walking for 15-20 minutes a day out of your IPL time), the body starts demanding more food intake.
In the post-mobile era, where a sedentary lifestyle dominates the social milieu, the question is, “Which Netflix series should I binge on tonight?”
Increasing physical activity, changing diet, and at the same time fighting our own body to shed those stubborn love handles and urges to eat fatty foods has made long-term sustainable weight loss almost a dream of the yore!
I have friends who still look at their 10-year-apart “Before” and “After” photos adoringly and, with a sigh, resigned to their metabolic fate of a steady paunch.
The inviting sheen of a fad diet that promises a few weeks to shed multiple kilos and make us return to our best shapes is a lure few can resist. After affairs with Atkin, GM, and numerous cycles of keto diets, many like me sigh and “adapt” to our metabolic fates.
We know – EAT LESS, BURN MORE! But how do we fight against our bodies? This has been the journey of the human paunch from ancient paleolithic times to the recent mobile era.
The Science Behind Weight Loss
In the last 4-5 years, modern science has made considerable progress in understanding how our digestive systems work and what makes them tick. Companies like Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly have made path-breaking discoveries with drugs that help us reduce our appetite and promote better metabolism.
Ozempic, Wegovy, you must have heard the names!
They allow us a small window of opportunity to shape our bodies easily, be the master of our appearance and look back through our mirror past to once again see the silhouette of our old self in our present cameras 🙂
At Elevate Now, we have combined pharmacotherapy and lifestyle interventions to develop a unique solution that works for 100% of our users. We remove the need for extraordinary willpower and systematically build on easy-to-do activities to make them an integral part of your daily habits in 9-12 months.
“There is a scientific way to lose weight easily, systematically and permanently.”
Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Neeta Deshpande
