Updated On: 15 December, 2021 07:58 AM IST | Mumbai | Sonia Lulla
Having penned the foreword of a new book by her nutritionist, Taapsee Pannu discusses how Munmun Ganeriwal’s diet, that targets the gut, helped her attain peak health

Taapsee Pannu
Taapsee Pannu’s schedule while preparing for a sports-based drama was so regimented that a timer dictated her bathing routine. She would wake up at 5 am for a two-hour sprint-training session. It was followed by a 12-hour filming schedule, and by the time she returned home, she would allot for herself no more than 45 minutes to head to bed. “I needed to sleep immediately to give my body enough time to rest and recover, because I had to be ready for the next day’s training. That was either a [sprinting] session, or a routine in the gym. The whole process was mentally draining. You begin to feel like a machine,” the actor tells mid-day, asserting that she would have failed to maintain that lifestyle if it wasn’t for the nutrition plan chalked out by Munmun Ganeriwal.
If the actor’s rather swift physical alteration for the film had raised eyeballs, her ability to lift the weights that she did instantly turned people dismissive. “They were convinced that there was no way I could have pulled it off without the use of [banned substances],” says the actor, crediting Ganeriwal for bringing about the change organically. In a soon-to-release book, for which Pannu has penned the foreword, the nutritionist doles out the secrets to creating the kind of lifestyle that enabled the actor to do so. We’ll give you a hint — it starts with the gut!