Dr Priya Ravi
Is fitness a destination that can be measured with strict parameters?
Is fitness equated with ideal weight?
Does fitness mean you have to be able to run marathons?
Is it about a perfect BMI?
Or is it about always eating right?
Hi all. I am Dr Priya Ravi, a dentist by qualification, and have been in practice for the last 34 years.
Have any of you ever seen “fitness” as such a big buzz word as it has been in the last decade? Be it social media or any self-help book or blog or even an advert campaign – everything seems to point towards fitness.
Everyone is obsessed with this fitness bug!
Personally speaking, I have always felt that I will be fit once I have reached the ideal weight.
So, looking back, since 1992, I had been on one or the other diet – either it was zero-carb, or zero-fat, or zero-sugar. While I sure lost weight, I put it all back when I was off the diet.
This was then followed by endless forms of exercise, gym memberships, fitness trainers, desperate skipping, and whatnot – all eventually leading to frustration.
So now, after over a zillion experiments with fitness over the last 30 years, I have decided to change my perspective of fitness.
Today, I don’t count my weight loss as a measure of fitness.
I eat everything I like. There are no good or bad foods.
I move more every day.
I sleep to recover and not to an alarm.
I measure my fitness by the enthusiasm I show for my workouts.
I measure the ease with which I climb stairs.
I also am happy that my clothes are now beginning to hang on me.
I am not stressed anymore when I stand on the weighing scale.
So, is this a better measure of one’s fitness? What do you think?
