These days, everyone's life has become super-fast. A busy work schedule, late nights and continuous travel can often make it seem glamorous and super cool, but they can slowly break down both the body and mental health. Talking about the culture, celebrity chef Vikas Khanna revealed how this kind of living left him feeling distressed, lost and exhausted. He openly discussed how years of hectic shoots, late facilities and worldwide flights interrupted his natural schedule through an Instagram post on February 16. This, he said, led him to modify his lifestyle, especially his eating habits.
About the Instagram post
The celebrity chef discussed how his body and mind were exhausted after years of working late into the night, shooting early in the morning and travelling frequently. He found it challenging to keep up a regular schedule because he lived in different time zones, which eventually made realised that he was emotionally as well as physically exhausted.
He wrote, “Living between time zones, intense projects, flights, late services, early shoots, and long creative nights, the body slowly forgets where morning begins and where night ends. Fatigue first appears in the body, but it quietly enters the mind. You lose clarity, patience, and even gratitude. I realised I wasn’t tired because of work - I was tired because my rhythm was broken.”
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Diet became my anchor. I began to treat food not as indulgence, but as alignment. Warm water before sunrise, simple meals, less gluten, less sugar, less excess, more seasonal produce, early dinners whenever possible. When I eat according to the sun rather than the clock, my mind becomes calmer. My thoughts are clearer. My reactions gentler.”
Highlights the connection between the mind and gut
Khanna has an absolute belief in the crucial connection between mental and physical wellness, where he wrote, “We often separate physical and mental health, but they are the same conversation. The gut carries memory, mood, and energy. A restless stomach creates a restless mind. A nourished body creates emotional stability.” Khanna noticed that jet lag is not just a sleep issue while travelling across countries.
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Observing that digestion suffers as well, he underlined, “Travelling between continents taught me something profound - jet lag is not only about sleep, but it is about digestion. When I help my body recognise time through food, light, and routine, I help my mind find stillness again.”
He further added, “I am still learning. I still fail many days. But now I understand that discipline in diet is not restriction - it is self-respect. Food doesn’t just sustain my work anymore. It sustains my peace.”
