How to Loose Extra Weight or gain weight

Problem with Obesity: 

Harvard health publication 

If you’re carrying many extra pounds, you face a higher-than-average risk of a whopping 50 different health problems. These health conditions include the nation’s leading causes of death—heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and certain cancers—as well as less common ailments such as gout and gallstones. Perhaps even more compelling is the strong link between excess weight and depression, because this common mood disorder can have a profound, negative impact on your daily life.

Obesity increased the risk of diabetes 20 times and substantially boosted the risk of developing high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, and gallstones. Among people who were overweight or obese, there was a direct relationship between BMI and risk: the higher the BMI, the higher the likelihood of disease.

According to WHO

Growing rates of overweight and obesity worldwide are linked to a rise in chronic diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes - conditions that are life-threatening and very difficult to treat in places with limited resources and already overburdened health systems.

Overweight and obesity:

·         about 1.5 billion people are overweight worldwide, of whom 500 million are obese, in 2008 figures

·         about 43 million children under age 5 were overweight in 2010

·         growing rates of maternal overweight are leading to higher risks of pregnancy complications, and heavier birth weight and obesity in children

·         worldwide, at least 2.6 million people die each year as a result of being overweight or obese

Research on loosing calories by doing different activities:

Harvard health publication reports on calories burned by doing dozen of activities for 30 min from which I have selected few :

	125 pound person / 56.96kg	185 pound person / 83.91
Activities
Walk/Jog: jog <10 min.	180	266
Walk: 3.5 mph (17 min/mi)	120	178
Gymnastics: general	120	178
Dancing: slow, waltz, foxtrot	90	133
Rope Jumping	300	444
Billiards	75	111
Weight Lifting: general	90	133
Aerobics: water	120	178
Stretching, Hatha Yoga	120	178
Teaching aerobics	180	266
Bicycling, Stationery: moderate	210	311
Bicycling: 16-19 mph	360	533
Rowing, Stationery: moderate	210	311
Race Walking	195	289

Calories burnt in doing 30 minutes of Surya Namaskar regularly: 

ACTIVITIES	CALORIES BURNT
WEIIGHT LIFTING	199 calories
TENNIS	232 calories
BASKETBALL	265 calories
FOOTBALL	298 calories
BICYCLING (14-15.9MPH)	331 calories
ROCK CLIMBING	364 calories
RUNNING (7.5 MPH)	414 calories
SURYA NAMASKAR	417 calories

Surya Namaskar calorie calculation:

One round of Surya Namaskar burns upto 13.90 calories for an average weighing person. You can now set the target for yourself. Slowly you can increase the number of rounds of surya namaskar to 108. By the time you reach this number, you will find a leaner you.

My Experience: 

Doing regular exercise and having proper diet.. still there was no change in my weight...  person with over weight does not loose  fat though he has balanced diet or person with under weight does not gain weight (under weight here means thin structure ) though his diet is more then obsessed person. why does this happen...??
 i  have experienced this....I had fixed diet.. 3 roti (chapatis) with little curry and I am  much healthier then my friend whereas my friend whose diet is twice then mine is underweight. our amount of work is same but still there is big difference in our body structure. I believe it is heredity issue.. or some internal problem.

In a study FUNDED by the National Institutes of Health, women who did restorative yoga—a practice in which poses are held for a long time, typically on the floor and supported by blankets and props—burned 2% times more body fat than those who just stretched for that same period. In another study, published last year in the Journal of Alternative Medicine, overweight men who practiced yoga and breathing exercises daily lost an average of 4 pounds in only 10 days.

Yoga's focus on the breath and body is likely the key to many of its results. Increasing mindfulness on the mat makes it easier to stay tuned in the rest of the day—which could translate into something as simple as realizing that your body is craving a walk or eating only when you're hungry.

http://www.prevention.com/weight-loss/weight-loss-tips/surprising-way-gentle-yoga-can-help-you-lose-serious-weight
http://www.artofliving.org/in-en/yoga/yoga-poses/surya-namaskar-sun-salutation12-poses-leaner-you
http://www.helpguide.org/harvard/how-excess-weight-affects-your-health.htm

Something I did not Know..

Did You Know

1. Your shoes are the first thing people subconsciously notice about you. Wear nice shoes.👞

2. If you sit for more than 11 hours a day, there's a 50% chance you'll die within the next 3 years

3. There are at least 6 people in the world who look exactly like you. There's a 9% chance that you'll meet one of them in your lifetime.👬👭

4. Sleeping without a pillow reduces back pain and keeps your spine stronger.🙇

5. A person’s height is determined by their father, and their weight is determined by their mother.👪

6. If a part of your body "falls asleep",
you can almost always "wake it up" by shaking your head.🙇

7. There are three things the human brain cannot resist noticing - Food, attractive people and danger

8. Right-handed people tend to chew food on their right side

9. Putting dry tea bags in gym bags or smelly shoes will absorb the unpleasant odour.👞

10. According to Albert Einstein, if honey bees were to disappear from earth, humans would be dead within 4 years.🐝

11. There are so many kind of apples, that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.🍏

12. You can survive without eating for weeks, but you will only live 11 days without sleeping.🙇

13. People who laugh a lot are healthier than those who don’t.😀

14. Laziness and inactivity kills just as many people as smoking.

15. A human brain has a capacity to store 5 times as much information as Wikipedia

16. Our brain uses same amount power as 10-watt light bulb!!

17. Our body gives enough heat in 30 mins to boil 1.5 litres of water!!

18. The Ovum egg is the largest cell and the sperm is the smallest cell !!

19. Stomach acid (conc. HCl) is strong enough to dissolve razor blades!!

20. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. & while you walk, SMILE. It is the ultimate antidepressant.