Juggling multiple projects and deadlines, handling stress, attending meetings, working night shifts – these days working women seem to be walking a tightrope doing household chores and managing a successful career, with little time left to even catch up on sleep! And for most of them, work hours extend beyond 10 hours! With easy access to calorie-dense food through vending machines and office cafeteria, for women working insane hours, gaining extra pounds, and at all the wrong places (yes, we are talking about belly fat), is a given. And weight gain is just a tip of the iceberg, because a study done by Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, in 2012, found that those who worked for more than 8 hours in a day had anywhere from 40% to 80% higher chance of developing heart disease compared to those who worked in an 8-hour shift! As we have mentioned above, a lot of women in the corporate, tech, and other fields are putting in around 10 to 12 hours in a day, glued to their computers. These insane working hours combined with sleep deprivation, chronic stress, exhaustion, and of course unhealthy eating pattern – leads to rapid weight gain. We would also like to mention that all these factors can throw hormones out of whack too, and thus, the biggest hurdle to weight loss raises its head. If you have nodded to all of the above conditions and feel that it’s you who we are talking about; overwhelmed with so much going around and anguished at the inability to get ...