I was in Kolkata last week to address the Miss India, East region training sessions. The girls are working hard and are bright and educated lot. As I did in Hyderabad last month, their training too includes lots of breathing exercises and meditation to de-stress and de-clutter their mind from their daily worries and tensions. There’s yoga, pranayam, calisthenics and agility drills and a healthy diet.

The diet given to them is as follows:

MORNING:

  • Green tea with ginger, crushed black pepper, cloves and cinnamon (the crushed pepper, clove and cinnamon must be very minimum)
  • ½ swee tlime (moosambi) before work out
  • Unstrained and unrefined orange juice immediately after work out.

BREAKFAST:

  • Oats with little jaggery
  • Nestle slim milk and nuts (almonds/ walnuts/dry figs/dates…very few dry figs and dates)

12:00pm:

  • Vegetable juice of lauki or bottle gourd + spinach + tomato + carrot + beetroot (less of carrots and beet)

LUNCH:

  • Brown rice + dal + vegetables + salad
  • Alternate days: Jowar roti + veg + dal + salad

EVENING:

  • Vegetable juice + 1 orange or sweet lime (whole)

DINNER:

  • Choice of seasonal Indian vegetables + Chinese stir fried vegetables + a bowl of thick soup (cauliflower, carrot, cabbage, spinach, lauki and other mixed vegetables)
  • 1 slice of papaya. (This may be supplemented with more fruits, nuts or dry fruits).

NOTE: This is followed under tight supervision and must not be followed by anybody unless monitored by a competent authority.