Chitra Vakil Sharma believes that ‘healthy’ is a complicated and subjective word

Chitra Vakil Sharma enjoys eating and when it comes to food, she believes that ‘healthy’ is a complicated and subjective word.

Says Chitra, “I believe that we should eat what we feel like as we all have only one life. To me, healthy eating means consuming eggs for breakfast, followed by parantha and sabzi for lunch then maybe a fruit. Dinner can be anything that my daughter demands. Sometimes it’s pizza or noodles or pasta.”

She thinks that a sugar-free diet is just a fad. “It’s just overhyped. Enjoy everything in limited quantity, but healthy is a complicated, subjective and sometimes problematic word,” said Chitra.

She admits to sharing a healthy relationship with food and further says, “I am a foodie and when I say healthy, it does not mean that I eat only a healthy diet. It means that I eat everything. It can be a packet of chips also. People who have been on restrictive diets often lose their natural hunger because they rely on calorie counts, schedules, meal plans and devices to tell them when and how much to eat.” Apart from eating, she is into cooking too. “I am a decent cook. I learnt cooking pretty late. I was about 27 years old. One fine day I decided to help my mom in cooking and then I started with basic cooking for survival,” she says.