After mesmering people with her size zero figure, Kareena Kapoor is now all set to share her fitness mantra by writing a foreword for Rujuta Diwekar’s Don’t Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight.

Kareena writes about being taught “to eat well, eat right and eat regularly. She also mentions that her fitness is the result of “70% diet and 30% exercise-training and yoga.”

Kareena also mentions how her diet is customised to her requirements and how every meal is planned in accordance to the level of activity of any given day.

“In Mumbai, my breakfast is muesli and milk or a chillah or parathas; no chai or coffee. While shooting for Tashan in Ladakh, I ate fresh fruit for breakfast and thukpas and momos for my other meals. I had pudina tea without milk.”

Kareena also emphasises how Rujuta focuses on nutrition and not calories.

“I make sure I eat every two hours. My evening snack or meal is soy milk or a sandwich. Rujuta focuses on nutrition, not calories. Amazingly, she likes to keep the nutritional value of what you eat, as compared to the calories consumed, high.”

Kareena also mentions how she learnt about being smart about food and yet enjoyed it.

“I have learnt what she means when she says, ‘be smart about food’ and still enjoy what you eat. Now thanks to this book, you can (learn) too and I am sure you will find it good enough to eat.”

Rujuta Diwekar’s book on how to lose weight tries to ride on her most famous client: actress Kareena Kapoor.

At no other time in human history have people been as obsessed about losing weight as in the last few years or so. As food has become more easily available, the paranoia of weight gain has increased proportionately.

This has led to dieticians, nutritionists and often quacks becoming mini-celebrities for their take on how to lose weight. Rujuta Diwekar is the latest “dietician” who has became famous for helping actress Kareena Kapoor lose significant amounts of weight for the film Tashan. Diwekar, buoyed by her new-found fame, has tried to cash in on it by writing a “quickie” book titled Don’t Lose Your Mind. Lose Your Weight.

The book’s flaws are so glaring from page one onward that one hopes that Diwekar’s diets aren’t as flawed. The book is full of anecdotal evidence told so shoddily that even if you are genuinely interested in what Diwekar has to say, the poorly written prose is enough to put you off. For instance, on page 33, Lolo, Kareena’s older sister, actress Karisma says, “Shit ya!!” And then on the next page a sentence reads: “Karisma confessed that she was dabaoing the chips…” Dabaoing is a word that Diwekar is excessively fond of and uses again and again. Writing a book on a film star’s diet isn’t a good enough excuse to write as inadequately, and using such tired language, as the two instances given above illustrate.

If the book uses language fit only for dimwits, her explanation for why her advice on losing weight is better than all the “wisdom” that is already out there is equally flimsy, using some deft name-dropping to convince the reader of the veracity of her claims. Americans who have been at this weight-loss game for much longer try at least to support what they claim with some proof and not keep mentioning a couple of clients as endorsement.

The world of weight-loss and dieting is already being seen as some sort of a scam where the only gainers are those selling these diets. Diwekar, as seen through this book, also falls in that category. And using Kapoor as some sort of testament is in fact the weakest link. Kapoor herself, in recent interviews, is claiming to be now a more “healthy” weight than she was in the near past. Go figure.

Rujuta claims that she is currently the highest paid fitness guru, getting five figures for an hour of dieting advice. She says that people are ready to pay her whatever amount she demands. Rujuta is working with a number of celebrities like Anil Ambani, Saif Ali Khan, Amrita Arora and Karisma Kapoor (Kareena Kapoor’s sister). She has clients in the US, UK and West Asia. She adds that even though she does not have any marketing skills, she was lucky to find her clientele through a popular BBC radio show.

Well, we must add here that many Bebo fans may not have loved her size zero look and are more than happy that she is putting on weight to look like a buxom house wife in Salman Khan, Arbaaz Khan and Govinda starrer, MR. AND MRS.KHANNA.