Understand your body's needs and stay in tune with your body. You might need a fitness trainer's assistance for this.
 
Your diet should depend on your lifestyle, work hours as well as medical history. Unless your lifestyle changes, this diet plan should not change drastically.

"For Kareena, we came up with a diet taking into account that she is a vegetarian as well as her shooting schedule, the kind of shoots she does i.e. advertisements or movies etc.," Rujuta reveals.

Choose a form of activity that you like whether it is swimming, dancing or even brisk walking - or a couple of activities. All forms of exercise have there own benefits. So you could alternate your workout every now and then to prevent monotony.

But the biggest mistake is following the latest fitness trend just because everyone seems to be doing it.

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