The integration of mind and body is crucial for sports performance and general wellbeing, but seldom do we find an approach that teaches us how to harness that power.
There are nutrition clinics, psychologists, gyms and fitness trainers, all striving to achieve the same goal, fighting a common battle in isolation. The need of the hour is integration, Mind, Nutrition and Muscle and that’s what we aim to provide at Mind Your Fitness”.
We follow an indigenous mNm (Mind-Nutrition-Muscle) approach. At the heart of mNm lies a multidisciplinary strategy where the physical and mental aspects are dealt with simultaneously.
Mind Your Fitness, founded by Registered Dietician Shweta Bhatia, is that one stop integrated solution encompassing nutrition, exercise, rehabilitation, medicine and psychology.
A team comprising of experienced and qualified domain consultants handling clinical and sports performance cases with equal aplomb across age groups: UNDER ONE ROOF.
This eliminates the need for referring clients to multiple experts. Time is of essence in health management. Lapses in communication within your healthcare team can delay recovery and results, costing you both time and money.
At Mind Your Fitness, EVERY CLIENT has a dedicated core team of a nutritionist, exercise consultant and psychologist delivering scientific, customised and sustainable health and fitness solutions.
The core team consults the medical team while managing challenging cases that need medical intervention. Alternatively, the core team is available to speak to the client’s medical management team if the need arises.
We want to see you become an empowered individual who goes from SICKNESS TO WELLNESS TO FITNESS!
Mind Your Fitness has it’s base in Mumbai with clinics in Pune and Goa and offers a range of offline and online services. Through our online packages, we offer health and fitness plans to clients pan India and around the globe.
Mind Your Fitness specialises in managing unique and complex cases using a multidisciplinary approach.
Some examples of unique cases:
- Parkinson’s Disease (60 year old male, obese): We managed to lower body fat with a special diet that is complementary to the medication and introduced gym based training that improved his mobility and overall fitness, medication dose was reduced by the treating doctor.
- Schizophrenia (40 year old male, overweight): Management included a fat loss plan, customised training program and mental health counselling.
- Renal failure (79 year old male on dialysis): Management included the diet to maintain muscle, customised training under a a special cardiac physiotherapist’s supervision. 3 months blood work summary and body composition measurements show drastic improvements. He has been able to climb 4 floors when the lift wasn’t working after his dialysis, without breathlessness. Walks without any aids.
- Chronic Pancreatitis (27 year old male): Chronic pancreatitis causes Type 3c diabetes requiring insulin lifelong. We managed this case with a diet that brought down his insulin dose, introduced gym based training for improved fitness. This also added to his overall body image.
- Pediatric obesity (10 year old girl, 80 kgs): We started her on a low carbohydrate diet including the child’s favourite foods. Psychological counselling led to testing and a psychiatrist’s intervention (she was diagnosed with ADD). The child was on medication. Parents were counselled as well. This child was also trained in the gym under supervision.
- Geriatric sports nutrition (71 year old male): Protocols included a diet, weight training guidelines that improved his timing, reduced injuries and the gentleman proudly boasts of a body fat of 21% at 71 years of age.
What is Healthy Weight Loss?
Our total body weight comprises of fat and lean body mass (LBM) which includes muscle mass which is important for disease prevention, mobility, balance, strength, and maintaining bone density.
When our body has more LBM, it burns calories and promotes fat loss even during rest. And therefore, healthy weight loss should be about dropping body fat and preserving muscle mass rather than just dropping body weight.
Spot reduction is a false belief, aim for slow and steady FAT LOSS.
What is a Balanced Diet?
A diet that has all the nutrients as per your body’s 24 hour requirements and helps you to achieve your health and fitness goals is a BALANCED DIET.
The amounts of carbohydrates, protein, fat, vitamins, minerals and water are planned around these requirements.
The core areas covered in our health and fitness plans are:
1. Diet Plan
After conducting the nutritional assessment, a customised diet is planned based on:
- Blood reports,
- Food prepared at home,
- Current schedule,
- Favourite foods,
- Medical conditions and allergies if any,
- Healthy recipes and substitutes recommended,
- Exercise schedule.
2. Exercise guidelines (pre-exercise evaluation in case of injury, aches, pains).
3. Supplementation guidelines.
4. Emotional wellbeing counseling.
A sustainable plan to improve body composition, fitness levels and overall health and wellbeing.
After the diet and exercise plans have been handed over, regular follow ups are scheduled to monitor progress. The team provides continuous support even in between scheduled follow ups.
Shweta Bhatia, Founder and Registered Dietician
44 year-old Shweta Bhatia enjoys a long list of laurels- woman entrepreneur, clinical dietician, sports dietician consultant, wellness guru and fitness athlete. With more than a decades’ experience backing her lineage, she is one the few dietitians recognized by the Indian Dietetic Association; Mumbai having only about 200 registered dietitians.
She commenced her entrepreneurial innings in 2008 with the launch of Metamorphosis clinic in Mumbai followed by Gym and Tonic fitness center in Goa in 2015 and Mind Your Fitness clinic in Mumbai and Pune in 2018. All of her boutique ventures are multi-disciplinary and holistic in nature and offer 360-degree services covering facets such as nutrition, training and psychology in entirety.
With mental health being a part of her practice, she launched Talk To Me in 2020– a Mumbai based NGO that aims to reach out to the less privileged sections of society for mental health counselling and screening.
She was presented with the Exceptional Women Of Excellence Award 2017 by the Women Economic Forum and the Rising Entrepreneur In Fitness & Wellness Award 2019 by The Indian Dietetic Association, Mumbai Chapter.
A penchant for fitness inspired her to participate in the Indian Body Builders Federation (IBBF) Championship in 2015 where she won the bronze medal in the fitness/bikini category at 38 years of age.
Equipped with comprehensive knowledge of nutritional sciences, she effortlessly multi tasks between clinical and sports performance nutrition cases. She enjoys global patronage and has advised prominent personalities in India. She is a consultant for many cricketers in the Indian team including Suryakumar Yadav. Suryakumar Yadav’s transformation is testimony to how a cricketer can excel even after the age of 30. Sports nutrition is one of the pillars an athlete must focus on to achieve excellence.
She specialises in diet planning for fat loss, hormonal disorders (diabetes, thyroid, PCOS), cardiac disorders (includes post cardiac rehab training), GI tract disorders (includes liver / pancreatic disorders), kidney disorders, neurological disorders, pediatric nutrition including Type 1 diabetes care plan, pregnancy (prenatal and postnatal care, includes training), sports nutrition for professional as well as recreational athletes, strength and conditioning programs (includes rehab) and more recently COVID 19.
Her team comprises qualified and experienced Clinical & Sports Dieticians, Sports Physiotherapists, Cardiac Rehab Experts, Doctors, Strength & Conditioning Consultants and Clinical & Sport Psychologists.
The diet plan is fully customised. The weight loss diet plans are targeted to achieve and maintain the lost weight in the long term.
