Raksha Lulla is a Nutrition Coach hailing from Mumbai, Maharashtra. She pursued Wellness Studies at the American College of Sports Medicine. Raksha Lulla is also an NDEP Diabetes Educator who is extremely passionate about nutrition, health, lifestyle, and wellness.
Raksha Lulla is also specialized in Fat Loss and Reversing Disorders. In her conversation with Icy Tales, she opened up on her journey in choosing this field, her opinion on body shaming, and other tips for maintaining good health.
Q) Why did you choose to be a nutrition coach, and what is the story behind all this?
Raksha Lulla: That’s funny, but I never chose nutrition in the first place. I was young and came from a household where I was romanticizing my mom’s role like all along the household chores kind of situation. I started out wanting to be a housewife.
I was a very bright student, and I loved science. I wanted to become a doctor, and then I got tuberculosis, so I was taking rounds of doctors. Then I was like, I don’t want to do all these hospital things, so I decided to select marketing. Don’t get me wrong; it doesn’t mean that somebody with no aspirations should do marketing. It’s a great field, and everything that helped me pursue what I can do.
After marketing, I got a few internships and jumped to the digital side. Further, I thought of doing fashion blogging, and I jumped again. But in each one, I learned a new thing. I started realizing that I am much more than I think. I realized that I had a calling for science and food because I was very home-oriented, so I realized home science was my thing.
So I studied again, took up nutrition, and jumped into clinical nutrition. After this, I took up sports nutrition, followed by weight loss nutrition; I studied it all. I worked with India’s leading nutritionist and with Bombay’s best endocrinologist.
So I got the food from the home part, and from marketing, I got the marketing skills I needed. I got digital skills, fashion skills, and absolute confidence through everything I did all this while. I had so many pebbles in my hat because I could be in this position. So I think everyone needs to understand that there will be little things that will help you bring things will come together.
Q) Tell us some methods to lose weight in a healthy way
Raksha Lulla: The healthiest way to lose weight is to understand their metabolic tissues and body muscles. You wouldn’t have to keep the goal of losing weight because whenever you feel you are fat, you are not. Fat is just a symptom of not having metabolic tissue there. And how do you create metabolic tissue? By becoming stronger, lifting weights, and doing cardio, your performance and the weight training improve, and eventually, the water weight elimination happens.
So it all becomes this one chunk of eating properly, exercising and cardio, and then, of course, seeing the changes when your body recovers because you sleep in time for about 8 hours, just like how you would get a lovely dress with a nice lipstick and then do your nails and everything, that way you need to supplement your body as well.
Nobody’s journey is linear; no single client’s journey is linear. Everyone comes from a space where they need healing in their journey because they may have done so many fad diets, and there are medical conditions too.
But the five things I mentioned were eating adequately, lifting with cardio, sleeping and supplements, and physical activity. These are the five basic principles that everyone needs to follow, no matter how boring they may sound.
Q) Tell us something about Reversing Disorders
Raksha Lulla: Disorders are exactly as they mean, they are this ordered, and they can be put back into order, which is that they can be reversed. That would technically include high lipid profiles, which are cholesterol and triglycerides. We can change that with exercise, a good diet, sleeping, and other things I mentioned.
Likewise, with diabetes, we have Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Type 1 cannot be reversed, but because Type 2 diabetes is a disorder, it can be reversed. We’ve got people who are taking insulin and medication. And then we just let them go because we learn how to make things better for them.
Besides that, there are hormonal imbalances where people don’t get their periods in time. So we’ve taken care of disorders like this, where people have started seeing changes, which happens by regulating their cycles. I think mainly cholesterol and diabetes are large in number. There are others, but the number will decrease by having a good sleep and following the other principles.
Q) What is your opinion on body shaming, and how can we prevent that?
Raksha Lulla: To prevent that, I feel that in the first place, if people are projecting shame on you, it is because they feel shame within themselves. If somebody abuses you in Japanese or Russian, you wouldn’t understand it because you don’t know the language. So if you don’t understand the language of production, you wouldn’t take it in the first place.
And secondly, I feel like whoever caused this within themselves that they are not enough needs to do a lot of work because possibly, if you took somebody else’s projection on you, it is because you probably don’t think you’re beautiful. I would think the same if somebody told me my bangs were not nice. But if you told me my charges are cute, I would take it because I find them cute. Let me give you a basic example.
I’m only going to accept something if I already believe it. So somebody tells you that, hey, you’re ugly. It is because you think as well that you are ugly. So the first error is that you feel you are not good enough. So you must stop thinking that and love yourself before anyone else.
Q) Is there any myth you would like to bust regarding nutrition?
Raksha Lulla: All of the worlds is just talking about how much protein you need to consume to be healthy and skinny but acceptable enough. Transport of a mind that takes place between the grain and the protein component you have introduced, the amount of which is good enough, whether you are a vegetarian or non-vegetarian; these are some common things people assume.
Earlier, people said that carbs were bad and then they were like, no, eat rice. I am sure this thing will change, it’s just that everybody gets their head on their shoulders, and then they have medical people who talk about it.
Raksha Lulla aims to spread nutrition awareness and help people lead healthy lives. She wishes to achieve better things and make a name for herself in nutrition.
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