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वजन कम करने के लिए 11 आसान आदतें

वजन कम करने के लिए 11 आसान आदतेंएक लाइफस्टाइल कोच और वेट मैनेजमेंट विशेषज्ञ के रूप में, मैं अक्सर लोगों को वजन कम करने के लिए संघर्ष करते हुए देखता हूं। अपने पिछले लेख में, मैंने 11 अन्हेल्थी आदतें जो आपके स्वास्थ्य को नष्ट कर रही हैं, पर अपने विचार साझा किये थे। मुझे उम्मीद है की आपने उन्हें पढ़ लिया होगा, आज मैं कुछ ऐसी आसान आदतें आपके साथ साझा करने जा रहा हूँ जिन्हें अपना कर आप अपना वजन आसानी से कम कर सकते हैं! छोटी-छोटी कोशिशों और अपनी आदतों में छोटे-छोटे बदलाव करके आप अपने वजन घटाने के लक्ष्य को आसानी से हासिल कर सकते हैं।

स्वस्थ रहने के लिए 11 आदतें

  1. फूड लेबल पढ़ें: खाने के लेबल पढ़ने से आपको भोजन के सही विकल्प चुनने में मदद मिलती है! यह कुछ मेडिकल कंडीशंस जैसे मधुमेह (डायबिटीज), उच्च रक्तचाप (हाई ब्लड प्रेशर) और उच्च कोलेस्ट्रॉल (हाई कोलेस्ट्रॉल) आदि में  मदद करता है, जिससे आपको ऐसे प्रोडक्ट्स से बचने में मदद मिलती है, जो इन स्थितियों को बढ़ा सकते हैं। लेबल पर सबसे बड़ी मात्रा सबसे पहले आती है। एक उत्पाद जिसमें चीनी या कॉर्न सिरप को उसकी पहली सामग्री (फर्स्ट इंग्रेडिएंट्स) के रूप में सूचीबद्ध किया गया हो, वह हमेशा कैलोरी में उच्च होगा।
  2. एक फूड जर्नल बनाए: एक फ़ूड जर्नल बनाना शुरू करें। यदि उपरोक्त आदत के बावजूद भी, यदि आपका वजन कम नहीं हुआ है, तो अपना एक फूड जर्नल बनाना शुरू करें। यह आपके भोजन और पेय पदार्थों के सेवन को ट्रैक करने में आपकी सहायता करेगा। तब आप आसानी से यह तय कर सकते हैं कि आपको अतिरिक्त कैलोरी में कटौती करने की आवश्यकता कहां है, जिसने आपके वजन घटाने के लक्ष्यों को प्रभावित किया है।
  3. अपने दिन की शुरुआत प्रोटीन से करें: हम नाश्ते कि महत्वता को समझ ठीक से समझ नहीं पाते! इसे कभी न छोड़ें। उच्च प्रोटीन वाला नाश्ता खाने से हमें क्रेविंग पर अंकुश लगाने और वजन घटाने में मदद मिलती है। अपने नाश्ते में मेवे, बीज, जई, पनीर, दही, छाछ और अंडे शामिल करके अपने दिन की शुरुआत करें।
  4. धीरे-धीरे खाएं और अधिक चबाएं: पूरी पाचन प्रक्रिया मुंह में चबाने से शुरू होती है। आप जितनी तेजी से खायेंगे, आप उतना ही ज्यादा खाना खायेंगे। भोजन को धीमी गति से चबाकर खाने से आपको समग्र भोजन का सेवन कम करने में मदद मिल सकती है। यह आपके द्वारा खाए जाने वाले भोजन से अधिक पोषक तत्व प्राप्त करने में भी आपकी मदद करता है।
  5. डिनर आपका अंतिम भोजन होना चाहिए: बोरियत या तनाव के कारण अक्सर हमारी अन्हेल्थी स्नैकिंग हो जाती है! लोग अक्सर भूख न लगने पर भी बोरियत या तनाव के कारण बाहर कुछ भी खा लेते हैं। अगर आपको रात के खाने के बाद भी भूख लगती है, तो हल्के, स्वस्थ विकल्पों के लिए जाएं जो फाइबर और प्रोटीन से भरपूर होते हैं जैसे कि नट्स, साबुत अनाज, फलियां, ह्यूमस, दही, एयर-पॉप्ड पॉपकॉर्न आदि।
  6. खाना न छोड़ें: खाना स्किप करने से आपका मेटाबॉलिज्म धीमा हो सकता है, जिससे वजन कम करना मुश्किल हो जाता है। यदि आप अपने खाने को स्किप करते हैं तो यह आदत आपको अन्हेल्थी भोजन विकल्पों, अधिक खाने और मोटापे की ओर आकर्षित करने लगता है। जब आप पर्याप्त भोजन नहीं करते हैं, तो आपकी मांसपेशियों की वृद्धि, हड्डियों के स्वास्थ्य और इम्यून सिस्टम के लिए आवश्यक पोषक तत्व नहीं मिलते हैं, जिससे थकान, बालों का झड़ना और लौ इम्युनिटी जैसी समस्याएं होती हैं।
  7. भोजन करते समय टीवी और गैजेट्स से दूर रहें: काम करते समय या टीवी देखते समय भोजन करना आपके स्वास्थ्य पर हानिकारक प्रभाव डालता है। यदि आपका सम्पूर्ण ध्यान आप जो खा रहे हैं उसपर होगा तो आप सही ओर हेअल्थी भोजन का विकल्प चुन पाएंगे। खाने कि ओर ध्यान रकने से आप अपने भोजन के महक, स्वाद ओर टेक्सचर का पूरा आनंद ले पायंगे।
  8. छोटी प्लेटों का प्रयोग करें: छोटी प्लेटों का उपयोग करने से खाने की मात्रा को नियंत्रित करने में मदद मिलती है। यह आपको पोरशन कंट्रोल बनाए रखने में मदद करता है। बड़ी प्लेटों का उपयोग करने से अक्सर ज़्यादा खाना पड़ता है। अगर आप बाहर खाना खा रहे हैं, तो आप हमेशा आधा हिस्सा मांग सकते हैं। इससे काफी कैलोरी बचेगी और आप ओवरईटिंग से बच जायेंगे।
  9. 8 घंटे की नींद का लक्ष्य रखें: नींद की कमी होना आपके अधिक कैलोरी सेवन से पूरी तरह जुड़ा है। जल्दी सोने और 8 घंटे की नींद लेने से वजन कम करने में मदद मिलती है। पर्याप्त नींद के बिना भोजन और व्यायाम के बारे में सोचना उपयुक्त नहीं है। यदि आप देर तक जागते हैं, तो आप निश्चित रूप से अधिक खायेंगे।
  10. खूब पानी पिएं: पानी का सेवन बढ़ाने से आपकी भूख कम होती है और वजन कम करने में मदद मिलती है। रोजाना 2-3 लीटर पानी पीने से आपके शरीर से टॉक्सिन्स को बाहर निकालने में मदद मिलती है और आपको तृप्ति का भी एहसास होता है! अपने आप को हमेशा अच्छी तरह से हाइड्रेटेड रखें!
  11. अधिक मूव करें: वजन और अच्छे स्वास्थ्य को बनाए रखने के लिए नियमित शारीरिक गतिविधि आवश्यक है। नियमित शारीरिक गतिविधि मांसपेशियों की ताकत में सुधार कर सकती है और मेटाबोलिज्म को बढ़ावा दे सकती है। आपके वर्कआउट के आधार पर, यह या तो वजन बढ़ने से रोक सकता है या आपको अपना वजन बनाए रखने में मदद कर सकता है।

हमें उम्मीद है कि इस लेख ने आपकी मदद की है! नीचे टिप्पणी में अपने विचार छोड़ दें! वजन कम करने के लिए और टिप्स और ट्रिक्स जानने के लिए, हेल्दी रीड्स देखें या यहां पेर्सनलिज़्ड हेल्थ कोचिंग के लिए सब्सक्राइब करके GOQii कोच से पूछें: https://goqiiapp.page.link/bsr

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10 Easy & Effective Tips For Fat Loss

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In recent years, food choices have become plenty and the comfort of ordering food online via an app makes it difficult to eat healthy much less aid fat loss. With so many choices, abundance and variety, natural and healthy foods have somewhat been left behind.

Even food brands, restaurants or eateries that sell “healthy foods” don’t help you cut back unwanted fat. So how exactly can your food choices help you reduce body fat? Here are a few tips that can help you reduce fat and get healthy!

10 Effective Tips For Fat Loss

  1. Begin Your Day with a Fruit: Eat a fruit within 15-20 mins of waking up. This is handy for both working and non-working folks who are rushing through their morning routine. Fruits being rich in fiber, fructose and micronutrients, replenish glycogen stores in the liver after a long fasting period at night and jumpstart metabolism which aids fat loss.
  2. Avoid Processed/Packaged Food: Certain processed foods that come in plastic packets are calorie dense, don’t have natural dietary fiber, and usually lack essential nutrients & minerals required for fat loss. Whereas dietary fiber from whole grains has longer intestinal-transit time and hence has a higher satiety value as compared to processed/packaged foods. This prevents the creation of required calorie deficit for fat loss. Thus, avoid products containing refined flour, white sugar, salt and fats such as biscuits, breads, chocolates, sugar cadies, packaged fruit juices, pastries, white pasta, white noodles, pizza, samosa, Kachori, vada pav, etc.
  3. Begin Your Meal with a Salad Twice a Day: For instance sprouts + vegetables. Since raw, non-starchy vegetables contain high amount of water and fiber, they can be consumed in a relatively larger amount contributing to increased satiety with fewer calories. Thus, aiding fat loss by creating an energy-deficit. Vegetables are important sources of many nutrients which boost the speed of various biochemical reactions that burn stored fat. Dietary fiber from vegetables also have a prebiotic effect and promotes growth of health beneficial bacteria which even aids lipid metabolism.
  4. Add Protein in Meals: Proteins take longer time to digest. Hence, it keeps us fuller for a long time which in turn prevents us from eating more often. Secondly, proteins are building blocks for muscles which again help in increasing the basal metabolic rate. Thus, help in burning extra fat stored in Adipocytes.
  5. Small & Frequent Low Calorie Meals: Try to eat smaller meals every 2.5 to 3 hours rather than eating a huge meal after a long gap or eating too frequently. Spacing out the meals adequately and breaking it down into smaller meals gives our body enough time to metabolize the food. This leaves little or no chance for food to get converted to fat and get stored in your body. Don’t forget to eat up to 70-80% of your stomach’s capacity.
  6. Drink a Glass of Water Every Hour: Now, you might be thinking, how water can help in fat loss? Well, water fills you up in zero calories and being a medium of all cell fluids, it facilitates all physio-chemical reactions in the body including the ones which causes fat oxidation.
  7. Go for Home-Cooked Meals: Yes, at least 4-5 days in a week, eat home cooked food. This prevents intake of outside food which may have an unhealthy quality and quantity of fats. You’d rather eat a satiable and nutrient dense meal which aid fat loss.
  8. Use Cooking Oil Sparingly: Go for steamed, grilled, roasted, sautéed cooking methods using non-stick cookware to reduce the amount of oil used for cooking.
  9. Get Active: An active lifestyle helps in burning the stored fat by increasing the basal metabolic rate and blood circulation. Exercise should be a combination of aerobic/cardio and resistance training.
  10. Sleep Your Way to Fat Loss: Are you getting adequate sleep? Yes! If you don’t sleep well, it will create stress in your body and facilitate the release of cortisol which leads to fat accumulation in the body over a period of time. So get a good night’s rest. Try these tips to sleep better!

Remember, food is for nourishment of body not for over indulgence. Eat to Live, not Live to Eat. If this article helped you, let us know in the comments below. You can browse through more articles on weight loss here.

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Lemon Water and Weight Loss: Are They Really Connected?

lemon water and weight lossThere’s no doubt that this bright yellow, all season fruit has innumerable advantages. If I were to list down the benefits, it would be endless. The foremost advantage of lemon is its power to enhance the flavor of our kitchen. Packed with vitamin C, calcium, potassium, phosphorous, magnesium, pectin fiber and citric acid, this fruit has been known to boost immunity and take it to another level.

It is anti-bacterial in nature, thus protecting you from the clutches of most infections. It’s also a blood purifier and known to rejuvenate the skin by taking away acne and wrinkles. It’s a perfect morning drink as it aids in the elimination of waste products from the body and promotes quick bursts of energy.

I have seen many people using lemon water as a way to lose weight, but does it really help in weight loss? The good news is that it does! Lemon water has shown to have real weight loss powers. It actually helps accelerate the process of weight loss.

Let’s understand the Mechanism of Lemon Water and Weight Loss

  • Drinking lemon water in the morning helps activate the detoxifying process. It clears out toxins and some internal waste from the body. Once the toxins are out, it accelerates our sluggish metabolism, increasing our calorie burning capacity.
  • It has diuretic and laxative effect, enabling smooth bowels and cleansing of colon. Lingering waste in the colon also adds on to the weight and results in bloating. Removal of the lingering waste helps drop some kilos then and there itself.
  • Lemon water helps cleanse the liver. Some components of lemon stimulate the liver to produce more bile. Bile is a chemical that helps in fat digestion. This process helps metabolize fat faster.
  • Having lemon water with a meal also stimulates the production of gastric juices that enhance digestion.
  • Lemon is packed with Vitamin C. According to an article published in the “Journal of the American College of Nutrition” in 2005, vitamin C is inversely related to our body mass. Reports suggest that having enough vitamin C can stimulate a series of chemical reactions that breakdown body fat and use it as energy.
  • It creates an alkaline atmosphere in the stomach which is conducive to weight loss and helps shed off the kilos faster.
  • It contains a fiber called pectin (especially the lemon peel). Pectin is known to cut down hunger cravings and provide satiety effects, thus, exerting control on overeating.
  • Last but not the least – substituting other drinks (colas/sugary fruit juices, etc.) with lemon water certainly reduces the caloric consumption, as lemon water adds ZERO calories to your body compared to other drinks.  If you choose to replace the other drinks with lemon water every day for months or even a year, it will help you lose weight!

This simple and tiny fruit is the perfect example of how “Big Surprises Come in Small Packages!” Make it a point to begin the day with a glass of lemon water daily. Enjoy its positive effects on your health and weight in the long run.

We hope this article helps you! For more on weight loss, check out Healthy Reads. You can also reach out to a GOQii Coach who will help you form healthy habits for sustainable weight loss, by subscribing for personalized health coaching here: https://goqiiapp.page.link/bsr

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‘Spices that help in losing weight’

India is popular for its spicy food. The sheer number of whole and ground spices used in Indian foods is sometimes intimidating. Each dish has its own combination of spices and its own unique flavour. The spices not just add flavour to your food but they also have many health benefits. Rich in antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients, most spices are good for your health. Some of the spices also improve your metabolic rate and help in losing weight. Here is a list of Indian spices that help your body to burn more fat. So, spice up your dishes!

Cinnamon

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According to a recent study, cinnamon may boost your metabolism. This sweet, fragrant spice also regulates your blood pressure. It lowers level of total cholesterol, bad cholesterol, triglyceride and blood sugar in type 2 diabetes patients. Cinnamon increases the metabolism of glucose by around 20 times. This spice will help you lose weight faster.

How to Use?

You can prepare cinnamon, honey and lemon drink- boil a pinch of cinnamon in a cup of water. Sieve and add a tablespoon of honey and squeeze some lemon into it.

Turmeric

Turmeric

The pungent, yellow spice is known for its anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, anti-mutagenic, anti-carcinogenic and anti-fungal properties. It also helps you lose excess weight. The spice ups your body heat and this can result in improved metabolism.

HOW TO USE?

Use it in your curries, chicken and in milk to gain the health benefits of turmeric.

Ginger

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The spicy ginger regulates your blood sugar levels and helps prevent an increase in the level of glucose. Like turmeric, ginger has thermogenic or fat-burning properties. You can add it to your stir-fried vegetables or tea or chicken. It improves the taste and helps you in weight loss.

HOW TO USE?

Prepare a Jeera (Cumin) Ginger drink.

Boil a tsp of Jeera and some crushed ginger in a glass of water. Boil till it starts reducing, sieve it and Drink after 30mins of lunch and dinner to ease digestion.

Black Pepper

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Black pepper has a pungent flavour, thanks to the presence of the substance known as piperine and this substance also prevent new fat cell formation. The bioavailability of other foods is also increased by black pepper. It makes the food not only tasty but also healthy. If u eat fresh pepper and begin to perspire, that’s the pepper helping your body to get rid of excess water and toxins. But, you need to control consumption, a pinch with your food (one meal) is enough.

HOW TO USE?

Black Pepper Tea.

Easy to prepare and the best way to consume black pepper for weight loss. You can use ginger, lemon, honey, tulsi (basil leaves), cinnamon, or green tea bags to prepare the tea.

Use 1/2-1 tsp freshly ground black pepper and drink it before breakfast.

Regular consumption will not only help you in losing weight but also improve your skin and prevent gut problems.

CAUTION

Do not consume too much as it may cause gastrointestinal problems, burning sensation in eyes, stomach irritation. If you feel uneasy, stop the use of black pepper immediately.

Garlic

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Adding garlic to your diet will help you burn the increased amount of fat and lose weight faster. Try to use fresh garlic instead of garlic powder or granules.

Here’s how it works…

  1. Garlic stimulates the satiety hormone which reduces binge eating, sugar cravings, junk food, and oily stuff.
  2. It releases the norepinephrine, a neurotransmitter which boosts metabolism.
  3. The allicin present in it lowers blood pressure, cholesterol and insulin levels.
  4. Garlic inhibits the process breaking down stored fats.
  5. It is a powerful detoxifier and effective diuretic.
  6. It contains trace minerals (sulphur, selenium, and magnesium, zinc, copper and iron), amino acids and vitamins A, C, and E.
  7. It helps to dissolve blood clots that lead to Heart stroke.
  8. It has anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties.
  9. It helps to remove excess mucus from the body.

HOW TO USE?

  • Squeeze juice of 1 lemon in a cup of water.
  • Chew 3 garlic cloves followed by the lemon water.
  • Or add crush the garlic cloves, stir in the lemon water and drink.
  • Repeat the process every morning.

These spices will help you to shed those extra kilos but you also need to change your lifestyle to a healthier one and should have a healthy diet.

TRY THEM OUT!!!

 

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