TIPS TO PREVENT WEIGHT GAIN DURING FESTIVE SEASON
Festive
seasons encourage overeating which may leads to weightgain. Festive foods
include sugary dense food items like sweets and also deep fried foods which
contains lots of calories. During the duration from October to November is
packed with wedding seasons and festivals like Diwali and navratri. Losing
weight can be much more difficult and timetaking. Here are some tips that will
be prevents from gaining weight.
1.Drink plenty of water
Keeping yourself hydrated is very important because water
helps in cleansing and eliminating waste from the body. Starts a day with two
cups of warm water it prevents from indigestion and helps in loosing belly fat.
2.Portion size
Portion size is very crucial part of diet. If someone is
overweight or obese then it is important that food should be consumed in
adequate amount or smaller portion. It becomes difficult to control overselves
when all the favorite food is right in front of us.
3.Include Probiotics
Probiotics are good for
gut health they can treat upset stomach for probiotics you can include
refreshing drinks like chaach, lassi, cranberry juice, coconut water and herbal
tea also. These drinks flush out all the toxins from the body. Removal of
toxins from the body will helps in to stay more immune during this period.
4. Eat fruits and
vegetables
Include fruits and
vegetables in your diet they not just nutritional needs but also helps in
building immunity.
5. Protein rich Foods
Including protein rich
diet is very good tactic to fulfill your hunger. Proteins require a lot of
energy to be digested in human body during festive season peoples rely on
vegetarian protein which can also provide satiety and provide good nutrition.
6. Don’t take longer meal breaks
During festive season
everyone being so busy to balance work or in the preparation due to which
mostly peoples compromise with hunger. Include snacks these days like nuts,
seeds, fruits to satisfy our hunger. Longer meal breaks usually trigger
cravings, junk food contains high amount of salt, sugar and fats.
7.Limit Alcohol
It is a very critical
element when it comes to controlling the calories count these drinks contains
high amount of calories so replace these drinks to healthy drinks like lemon
water or any fruit juice.
8.Stress and Sleep
Peoples are more stressed
and sleep deprived during these festivals, so it is important to don’t include
unhealthy snacks in late night party, sleep deprivation triggers cortisol
levels in our brain which triggers hunger and cravings for junk food and
disturb the metabolism of the body.
9.
Maintain physical
activities during festive season can be challenge. Mostly peoples are busy in
household works, everyone should invest atleast 20-30 minutes daily, you can do
exercise with your family member also can add on dance form which may fulfill
the requirement of workout.
10.Alternatives
Indian sweets can be very
hard to resist. Festivals revolve a lot around food and sweets so we can choose
alternatives for these sweets like sandesh, rasgulla as they are not deep fried
and contain limited amount of sugar instead of sugar use jaggery for the sweet
preparation.
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