What does it take one to look half his/her age?
Venturing out for info on this mission, you are sure to stumble upon endless tips on do's and dont's, some of them already in your "regimen", (if there is one), some quite doable or undoable and a plethora of them you would like to do or undo but wouldn't have the heart or mind to keep to the dictum.
Broadly classifying the dicta, what is more primary and warranted than the other, are the a) efforts to bring down the biological age of the innate physical body and the other less important, the b) efforts to pursue all those steps to look young. Now I have decided to embark on a mission to achieve the former as a sine qua non for fulfilling the latter!
I would say that my experiences during my marathon treks were a primary motivating factor to take the bitter pills to tone down. Defying Newton's laws, I always perceived my own terrestrial acceleration due to gravity at 20 rather than at 9.8! Many a times, during my solitary treks, I do resort to the perfunctory collapse on my own volition at the penultimate moment in order to pre-empt a most inevitable swoon in the wilderness. Sometime back last winter, my 15 km trek across hill ranges in Yelagiri (about 250 km from my suburban farm midway to the cosmopolitan outsourcing hub) ended in the inevitable collapse just in time on thrusting myself under a waterfall, the destined target of the trek. The physical self was unable to keep pace with the mind's endurance. If the mind is unable to pull the bodily burden, either the former is fragile or the latter is! In my case the physical body considered itself too superior to be at the service of the mind! Mind has been at the service of the intellect at least for the past few years, though!
At just 5 short of hitting that horrendous century, I decided that it's time that I subjected myself to a "Rigorous Imprisonment" from all things nice and beautiful that life has to offer!!!
After sifting through good lot of literature on the caption, I conveniently salvaged the following ten commandments - suiting my lifestyle ....without rocking the comfort boat
1. Ensure 50% Veggies content in any meal. (Customized Orders!)
2. Tea with milk is vestigeal. Consume only pure black.(Bitter Better)
3. Neem and Thulsi leaves (in lieu of biscuits at tea)
4. Drink 5 litres of water a day. Thats 1 for every 20 kg.(If you cant carry a loo, make sure there's one near you)
5. Take green tea twice a day. (ok thats a med)
6. One hour of rigorous equipment exercise every morning.....the most difficult part!
7. Breathing exercise at traffic signals..instead of raving and ranting at rogue drivers!
8. Use coconut oil for cooking. Go the Bong/Mallu way!
9. Sleep 8 hours a day...fortify your bedroom and ...de-clutter it!
10. Park car at least 100 m from the destination.....a luxury in the concrete jungles!
And Now for the Ten sins to avoid-
1. No fried foods. No fast foods.....and the associated frills!
2. If you wanna binge, go brush and floss your teeth instead! Carry disposables!
3. No escalators. Need to reach destinations 15 to 20 min before time!
4. No aerated beverages...what with a pizza....oops no pizzas anyway!
5. Don't eat when thirsty. Know thirst from hunger. Do we?
6. No food intake after 2 hours before sleep. Walk down and chat up with the grocer if sleep interrupts!
7. No ice creams. What's life without it! Lemme discover!
8. No Vehicle/errand boy for targets less than 500 meters. Neighbourhood is blinking!
9. No Porter. No Trolley bags! (Leaving the shores? Donna worry...forget all the commandments!)
Venturing out for info on this mission, you are sure to stumble upon endless tips on do's and dont's, some of them already in your "regimen", (if there is one), some quite doable or undoable and a plethora of them you would like to do or undo but wouldn't have the heart or mind to keep to the dictum.
Broadly classifying the dicta, what is more primary and warranted than the other, are the a) efforts to bring down the biological age of the innate physical body and the other less important, the b) efforts to pursue all those steps to look young. Now I have decided to embark on a mission to achieve the former as a sine qua non for fulfilling the latter!
I would say that my experiences during my marathon treks were a primary motivating factor to take the bitter pills to tone down. Defying Newton's laws, I always perceived my own terrestrial acceleration due to gravity at 20 rather than at 9.8! Many a times, during my solitary treks, I do resort to the perfunctory collapse on my own volition at the penultimate moment in order to pre-empt a most inevitable swoon in the wilderness. Sometime back last winter, my 15 km trek across hill ranges in Yelagiri (about 250 km from my suburban farm midway to the cosmopolitan outsourcing hub) ended in the inevitable collapse just in time on thrusting myself under a waterfall, the destined target of the trek. The physical self was unable to keep pace with the mind's endurance. If the mind is unable to pull the bodily burden, either the former is fragile or the latter is! In my case the physical body considered itself too superior to be at the service of the mind! Mind has been at the service of the intellect at least for the past few years, though!
At just 5 short of hitting that horrendous century, I decided that it's time that I subjected myself to a "Rigorous Imprisonment" from all things nice and beautiful that life has to offer!!!
After sifting through good lot of literature on the caption, I conveniently salvaged the following ten commandments - suiting my lifestyle ....without rocking the comfort boat
1. Ensure 50% Veggies content in any meal. (Customized Orders!)
2. Tea with milk is vestigeal. Consume only pure black.(Bitter Better)
3. Neem and Thulsi leaves (in lieu of biscuits at tea)
4. Drink 5 litres of water a day. Thats 1 for every 20 kg.(If you cant carry a loo, make sure there's one near you)
5. Take green tea twice a day. (ok thats a med)
6. One hour of rigorous equipment exercise every morning.....the most difficult part!
7. Breathing exercise at traffic signals..instead of raving and ranting at rogue drivers!
8. Use coconut oil for cooking. Go the Bong/Mallu way!
9. Sleep 8 hours a day...fortify your bedroom and ...de-clutter it!
10. Park car at least 100 m from the destination.....a luxury in the concrete jungles!
And Now for the Ten sins to avoid-
1. No fried foods. No fast foods.....and the associated frills!
2. If you wanna binge, go brush and floss your teeth instead! Carry disposables!
3. No escalators. Need to reach destinations 15 to 20 min before time!
4. No aerated beverages...what with a pizza....oops no pizzas anyway!
5. Don't eat when thirsty. Know thirst from hunger. Do we?
6. No food intake after 2 hours before sleep. Walk down and chat up with the grocer if sleep interrupts!
7. No ice creams. What's life without it! Lemme discover!
8. No Vehicle/errand boy for targets less than 500 meters. Neighbourhood is blinking!
9. No Porter. No Trolley bags! (Leaving the shores? Donna worry...forget all the commandments!)
10. Don’t worry, be happy. If a problem is in control, solve it. If not, abandon it!
So it is with these charters, I commenced on a perceptibly difficult journey on the tenth day of Ashvina (Vijaydashami for the uninitiated)
Current "Asset" 95 Targeted Erosion at about 20%- down to 75. An uphill task!
It has been a week since the initiation.
So it is with these charters, I commenced on a perceptibly difficult journey on the tenth day of Ashvina (Vijaydashami for the uninitiated)
Current "Asset" 95 Targeted Erosion at about 20%- down to 75. An uphill task!
It has been a week since the initiation.
Symptoms and Effects:- Car boot laden with crates of mineral water, …and some uncooked edible veggies too. 3 kgs burnt on the exercising equipment along with a commercial burn of 15k. Milk vendor is unhappy. Friends/associates ask me if I have become diabetic…and tender free advice on how to counter the problem! Primates wandering on my terrace wondering what this animal is upto every morning, trying in vain to break metallic rods every other day! My O’Boy unhappy with lost opportunities…going ‘untipped’! Vehicles at traffic signals wondering if this guy is suddenly suffering from a lucid interval of amnesia! Hating the car, using the public transport a lot more! The neighboring grocer with his new found bonhomie, looking for loan favours! The ice cream vendor claiming nonchalantly…’I told you so!’…and many more comical situations that cannot be scripted…! Anyways...I asked for it...So be it....if the targets are within calling distance of the mind!
In any case, I have desperately latched on to the dicta with vice like grip until the erosion is complete!
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