Shonali Sabherwal is India’s first Micro-biotic Nutritionist. Unlike most of her peers, she chose a different direction of career. When asked about how she defines herself, she said “I am a compassionate woman. The biggest positive trait in me is that I am forgiving. Plus as I believe in being healthy, so another quality in me is I am healthy from mind, soul and body.”
Recently she has launched a book called ‘Love-diet’. This is her second book that has been published; the first one was ‘Beauty-diet’. On wondering why such unique name to these books, Ms.Sabherwal says that it wasn’t she who decided the names, but the publishers. “I wanted to publish book, it’s my books publishers who came out with such unique name. And moreover the second book is in connection to the first.”
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Ms.Sabherwal also believes in the saying that a man’s way to heart is through stomach and if one has to control any sort of disease or even weight then diet is something that effects massively. Informing about what is unique in her book, ShonaliSabherwal says “The book is about space of love cleaning up pathways of food, for better relationships. I wanted to deal with love towards anyone and everyone, and that’s how I came up with this book.”
Shonali has done her Masters Degree in Marketing Research from US and her first career was related to this only, to which she was committed for 14 long years. On other hand, she was quite interested in cooking, an interest which was inherited from her parents and a discipline for exercise, which solely came from her father. Apart from all that, she was always interested to get into roots of how food can have impact on body and mind of people.In 2005 she decided that she wanted a change in career. She started searching ways in which she could pursue macrobiotics. By then she was also diagnosed with slip disk, commenting on this she adds “Little did I know it had a lot to do with my eating habits as a child”. Later she decided to pursue 2 courses. One, a Counselor and Chef’s certification at the Kushi Institute in Massachusetts and second a Yoga Pilates course in Australia. And then her journey began that changed her life and meaning of health for her.
“I chose this path because I wanted to bring changes in lifestyle of people in India. I also had my own health issues like candida, constant migraine, and a weight that remained stagnant at 60 kgs. I had way too much energy and ideas, no way of channelizing it in a proper way. I lacked focus and did not know at the time that the very food I was eating was fuelling all this into a spiral that I was not getting out of. After getting rid of every health issues I was facing, I came back after 7 years; completely trained and in business of changing approach of lives of people.”
Also we wondered that how Macrobiotic Nutrition is different than any other Nutrition, to which Ms.Sabherwal said “We don’t use dairy, sugar, refined and processed flours or products, yeast, chemicals / preservatives. Our meals are organic and non GMO and all meals are personally cooked by me. I supply meals, look after dinner for Bollywood and even conduct cooking classes. We focus less on meat but fish is allowed. Before providing any meal or diet plan we consider genes, conditions of the body and analyse organs through facial diagnosis.”
She further adds that her foods are ‘Nutrient dense’. Now what this term means? Nutrient density is amount of Nutrients per unit of energy (Calorie) you get from the food. Nutrient dense meals are considered the best for every body type and helps in regaining health and healthiest way of dieting.
According to her correct way of losing weight is striking balance. One should have balance diet of whole grain, protein elements from veg-food, fermented food and along with it equally important is good amount of exercise. Like one cannot stay without brushing teeth, having bath, food and so on, same way one should not avoid exercise or any form of physical activity.
We asked if she recommends different diet plans for youngsters and elderly people, on this she responded that the plans wholly depends on body conditions and on ailments. And she provides diet according to ailments.
Ending the conversation, she tells our readers to focus on eating well, eating right, doing meditation and most importantly to do what you love.
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