Priya Kalra

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Doctor

Myths about losing weight during PCOS. ( or in general too!)

🔍 Lots of cardio will help you lose weight.
📌 Cardio ONLY is inefficient and tiring to lose fat. A combination of strength training+ diet (calorie deficit) + cardio + staying active throughout day helps losing weight.

🔍 Try expensive and complex 21- day workout programs.
📌 It is about SIMPLE steps done CONSISTENTLY that effects your body. Get stronger over time when you feel like it. Don’t stress your body.

🔍 You should workout for 1 hour to get results. Otherwise it’s just waste of time and energy.
📌 Your body is not tracking you or keeping an alarm clock to check you. Working out 20 minutes daily for 3 days is better than stress exercising for 1 hour every day, and leaving it because of tiredness for the next week.

🔍 You have to eat 1200 calories or lower to lose weight.
📌 1200 calorie diets is for kids. A grown up human being needs more calories to work with his/her body. Eat more but eat healthy. Stop counting calories and start counting individual nutritional benefits and requirements if you really want to lose weight or maintain your body.

Fact:

Breathing rate of females is slower than men because of increase in electrical activation of breathing muscles.

Therefore, women respond better to steady exercises/ cardio rather than hitting a high intensity workout or HIIT.

Also, women have biologically smaller lungs, airway systems as well as breathing muscles than men. Therefore, women tend to exhaust earlier than men.

Hey! I was watching this video today and wanted to share a quote by Will Smith;

“The keys to life are running and reading.

When you're running, there's a little person that talks to you and says, "Oh I'm tired. My lung's about to pop. I'm so hurt. There's no way I can possibly continue." You want to quit. If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will how to not quit when things get hard in your life.

For reading: there have been gazillions of people that have lived before all of us.
There's no new problem you could have--with your parents, with school, with a bully.
There's no new problem that someone hasn't already had and written about it in a book.”

Since it’s 22nd and the talent competition is going to over soon,

I made a little painting today for MyAva theme! 💗🥂 All of you have such amazing talents!

Did you notice ? That each one of us is so different and we gave our best?

#IGotTalent

#IGotTalent

I have always been fascinated by all the social media digital artists, how they make such amazing art.

Till i tried one myself.

I was listening to Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez, when i made this! Hearts and butterflies!🥰

#IGotTalent

Another one of my works🥰

I love mixing up different colours. It’s so random yet so perfect.

It reminds me of the quote:
There is a kind of beauty in imperfection ♥️✨

The randomness of colours tells us that we all are unique yet beautiful in our own way.🥰

Do You Have Dark Armpits too?

If you are not scrolling this one, then probably you have a little darkening or you know someone who might want to know about it or probably you just want to give it a read ( okay that’s a philomath here, impressive! )

Your underarms should be exactly as the shade of the rest of your body.
But if a person has a darker armpit, then that doesn’t necessarily mean that she ( or he) is having a SKIN condition or is unhygienic! There is nothing serious (maybe).
Yes it might be embarrassing at times and some influencers will tell you to “embrace it”. But what is really happening?

This darkening is because of the bacteria that lives in thick folds of the human body.

If you have noticed, some people have darkening around the folds of their neck, groin, elbows, knees, and of course underarms.
This is because of the growth of a bacteria known as Acanthosis nigricans ( both words separately underlined and to be written in italics, because scientific terms, yk! )

Around 74% have this condition so you now know that you aren’t definitely alone. ( old research but the number has only increased )
And there are number of factors for this darker shade of skin - genetics, family history, or maybe some medication, or race, or weight gain.

Where does this bacteria come from?

Your skin colour is determined by melanocytes ( skin cells) and the more these cells, the darker your skin tone.
Or; More irritation, more cells, more dark.
Or; More hair removing “experiments”, more dark.
Or; More the body becomes resistant to insulin ( yes you guessed PCOS too i know) the darker it gets.
Or; More sugar, more dark. ( you guessed diabetes? You have gotten smarter by being here)

So what should You apply? Which cream? Which treatment? Which ointment? Which lotion? Aaaaaah!

The answer is - NOTHING.

No underarm waxing that your parlour aunty tells you, No rica, vika, chika wax is going to treat the colour or WHITEN your skin tone.

-> the only solution is treating the medical condition associated. Only fixing the “issue” is going to fix this issue.

Stop following all the crap your parlour aunties tell you before using an expensive wax to lighten your skin.

Waxing removes hair and dead skin from your arms, legs and body.
It doesn’t lighten your skin. It removes the dirt and makes you feel like a softie.

Now you can treat your armpits better without taking help of your parlour didi. 😄😆

Remember, there are deeper causes that need to be treated before jumping on to possible available and affordable “solutions”.

#IGotTalent
my favourite meal of the day is breakfast.
It is so so important to me that i make sure to never leave my house for work without having my morning meal.

But at a certain point, eating the same breakfast can be boring, so tried many self made recipes with my morning oats.

I just love to be creative with my food, even if it’s just plain bread or parantha or oats.

Here are a few experiments i did!

Feel free to try ! :) ♥️

Mom’s review: Prepare an extra bowl for me every time you make oats for yourself 🥰

That compliment is the ultimate validation i need.

( last picture is banana oats pancakes)

I know this community is for women and their wellness; but since it’s international men’s day, i want you all to be grateful for the men in your lives who make your days a little better.

Here is something i wrote on my social media page but wanted to share with you girls as well!

I hope you like it.

#IGotTalent

Mandala art time!!

In Sanskrit, mandala means circle. A mandala is a geometrical design that shows the cosmos in various worlds.
It's more about searching for peace in the design and in universe. ✨

Hope you all like the process!