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Lose weight the Ruby Bhatia way
Ten tips for losing weight after the festive season
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Ruby K Bhatia
Ruby K Bhatia is a grooming expert and conducts seminars on Personality Development throughout India. She covers topics like self-confidence, public speaking, grooming and manners. Have a question? Click here...
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Alright guys, the holidays are over and reality has set in. Put on a bit weight? Don't worry, it happens to me all the time. Here's what I do when I need to lose 4-5 kilos.
The first rule of thumb is: No butter, sugar or oil. If you read the list of ingredients of whatever you are going to eat, make sure it doesn't have any of these "enemies". Generally, if you are eating something, and it doesn't have any of these things, then you should be okay.
Eat dinner early. By doing this, you can save 25% of your daily calorie intake without even feeling it! How? At 6 or 7, we tend to feel hungry and start eating things like biscuits, samosas, sandwiches or whatever we can get our hands on. These things are completely unnecessary. After lunch, have no snacks and just go for a proper dinner at 7pm. Fill up. And you will find that you're done till bedtime!
When you eat your meals, eat in this order: a bowl of fruit first, then a bowl of salad and then dinner. Fruits and vegetables are to be taken on an empty stomach as they are digested in 20 minutes, whereas regular food takes 2 hours. Eating fruits and vegetables first not only energises you, but it also fills you up so that you eat less of the cooked stuff.
Here are some diet meal ideas that are fulfilling yet pretty harmless: steaming hot rice and daal (boiled rice with the water thrown out, and daal without tadka-add spices, chillies, dhaniya, tomatoes and ginger in the making). No oil and yet sooo good. Another option is plain hot phulkas with steamed mixed vegetables, steamed spinach, steamed methi or any type of raita (cucumber is good!). One more option is idli-sambhar. Alternate between these and you won't go hungry!
Some safe foods... munch on carrots and cucumbers. Don't peel them, however, as the vital nutrients are just under the skin. Crunchy and convenient! Other favourites: steamed or roasted corn, homemade soups, (pea soup, tomato soup, mixed carrot and capsicum soup) juices (apple, orange, sweet lime, cucumber, lauki, carrot... you decide!). All of the above are virtually no-cal and keep you full and happy.
Cabbage soup apparently has minus-calories. That means that it makes you burn more than what you are taking in. So just add cabbage soup once in the day and see the difference.
Take a one litre bottle of water and add the juice of two nimbus(Lime) to it. Put in a bit of rocksalt for taste, if you wish. Drink throughout the day. Great for energy and to ward off hunger.
Drink one litre of water as soon as you get up (without brushing). This flushes out the system and gives you a headstart on the day. Drink another two glasses before every meal to avoid overeating. Make sure you get 4-5 litres of water a day.
If you really must have something sweet or high-calorie, then eat it in the morning. That way, you can burn it off throughout the day. You'll also be more likely to stick to your diet if you allow yourself something small once in a while. But make sure it's in the morning!
Get on to a treadmill for 30 minutes every single day. But the trick is, don't make it difficult. Just walk or run at WHATEVER pace you find convenient and comfortable. Even if you are feeling low, do your 30 minutes anyway at a really slow pace (even 3 kms an hour! No problem!). But be consistent. Just put in your 30 minutes and forget about it.
And finally, be patient. Stick to this regime and you'll see the kilos fall off in 2 months!
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