Dr. Aravind PadmarajuHealwitharavind · Founder & CEO

3 things for a sustainable lifestyle

1 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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In this instructional video, Aravind Padmaraju, Ph.D., outlines three essential components for achieving and maintaining weight loss over a lifetime. First, he emphasizes cultivating the right mindset—recognizing fitness as a lifestyle and reshaping internal dialogue to make the journey enjoyable rather than punitive. Second, he explains the scientific basis of weight loss: maintaining a negative energy balance where caloric intake is lower than expenditure, and understanding individual energy requirements. Third, he advises incorporating all macronutrients—protein, fats, carbohydrates, and fiber—by identifying and adjusting existing food habits, allowing sustainable dietary changes without drastic overhauls. Together, these steps form a practical, long‑term approach to healthy weight management.

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There are 3 things most important for you to build or lose weight and maintain it for the rest of your life. You need to have a right mindset and what you're talking to yourself, what exactly you're feeling inside you. Until and unless your inner energy doesn't change and you accept that, you know, fitness is a lifestyle and it is more enjoyable journey than ever, no way you can make that as a sustainable approach. So diet doesn't mean that it is torturing you. Diet is all about the food what you eat every single day. Most of the times you have because of your previous conditioning, previous experience, whatever is gone through, those memories are stuck in your brain which will keep making you tough in this journey. So what is most important is understand what is the science behind weight loss. The weight— the science behind the weight loss is you need to be in the negative energy balance. The meaning, the amount of energy your body requires should be less than the amount of energy you are burning out of your body. Understand what is energy requirement for your body And so once that is done, then make sure that you include all the macronutrients your body is required, like proteins, fats, and carbohydrates and fiber. And see in your existing food habits itself that what are the foods that already have these macronutrients like proteins, fats, and carbohydrates, and then include them part of your diet. So this way what happens is you're not making too many changes and you're also giving the body which you're already eating. So it makes more sustainable for you to follow for a longer period of time.