Why following a diet could be a question. The general trend of South Indians to be hefty has changed drastically over the last few years. People now are more health conscious and are trying to incorporate either exercise or diet or both in to their daily lives. Be it a half hour brisk walking or a 10 minute elliptical work out, or becoming a vegetarian for a period, we see that the generation today is involved in atleast one of these activities. And this sense of health consciousness has donned upon almost everyone, including me :p
I'm not a person who works out every single day. I'm laaaazy. And post wedding, i gained almost 8 kgs, due to the change in lifestyle. Me and my husband, we are major foodies. Only later we realized the weight we have gained over time and we couldn't workout regularly due to travels. So we started dieting. First i'll tell our modus operandi for the diet.
1. Heavy Breakfast
Being South Indian, we like to have any of the south-indian food like idili, dosa, puttu, uppuma, appam, or puri. Recently, we started using raggi puttu. But the overall idea is to have a heavy breakfast.
2. Munch In Salads
I have salad for lunch. But my husband likes to have it at different time intervals. He likes to munch in some snacks all the time. So we replaced the snacks with sliced carrots, cucumber, tomatoes, sprouted lentils. He have them at 11 am, 12, 1 and 2 pm. Since he is eating something at every interval, he doesn't feel hungry.
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3.Oats or Fruits For Dinner
We have dinner by 7 30. We try our best to not have anything after 8 pm.
4. Drink Lots Of Water
We try to drink atleast 8 glasses of water a day. We drink water whenever we feel hungry in between. This is the most important part.
5. Have A Cheat Day
Once a week, we have whatever we like, we satisfy our cravings. Be it eating biriyani, or KFC, we have non-veg or rice or both once a week.
Its not easy to maintain a diet. During the first few days we were craving to have a piece of pastry or a scoop of icecream. But after 2 weeks, we started to feel different. Although it hasn't started showing out in our appearance, we feel lighter now. Last time i checked, i had already lost 2 kgs. And my husbands cholesterol has gone down. So we are hopeful.
I've heard someone say "Have breakfast like a KING, have lunch like a QUEEN, and have dinner like a BEGGAR". This is apparently true. The reason being, our metabolism is on the highest side when we wake up, and it decreases as the day goes by. So its least during night. That is why it is best to have a light and early dinner, because all the food we eat during night does not give you energy, rather it is going to get sedimented as fat onto our body.
There are some things we avoided for the sake of the diet. We avoided having sweets and sugary items, tea only on alternate days, avoided maida products, fired and oily stuff, avoided banana, and vegetables that grow underground. But we have carrots almost every day. We drink 1 cup of green tea every day on empty stomach and we eat lots of vegetables and watery fruits. Once or twice a week we have egg. And we drink water whenever we feel hungry in between. We sometimes eat nuts like almond, walnut, pista etc for snacks.
People say that we should avoid eating out if we are on to reducing weight. And i know its true. But during most weekends we go out to have something. Currently, we are trying to reduce our eating out habits. Some days we become so bored of having vegetables, and would be tempted to have our cheat day early that week. But then we remind and motivate each other about the reward that we would get at the end of the week(dining out!!!). We don't have any rules on our cheat day, just that we would watch on how much we eat, and not on what we eat. So this is how we try to maintain our diet, and its been over 3 weeks now. We are trying to incorporate some kind of work-out too. I don't know if this is the healthiest diet, but this is what we follow and hoping we would be able to lose some weight :) .
I'm not a person who works out every single day. I'm laaaazy. And post wedding, i gained almost 8 kgs, due to the change in lifestyle. Me and my husband, we are major foodies. Only later we realized the weight we have gained over time and we couldn't workout regularly due to travels. So we started dieting. First i'll tell our modus operandi for the diet.
1. Heavy Breakfast
Being South Indian, we like to have any of the south-indian food like idili, dosa, puttu, uppuma, appam, or puri. Recently, we started using raggi puttu. But the overall idea is to have a heavy breakfast.
2. Munch In Salads
I have salad for lunch. But my husband likes to have it at different time intervals. He likes to munch in some snacks all the time. So we replaced the snacks with sliced carrots, cucumber, tomatoes, sprouted lentils. He have them at 11 am, 12, 1 and 2 pm. Since he is eating something at every interval, he doesn't feel hungry.
3.Oats or Fruits For Dinner
We have dinner by 7 30. We try our best to not have anything after 8 pm.
4. Drink Lots Of Water
We try to drink atleast 8 glasses of water a day. We drink water whenever we feel hungry in between. This is the most important part.
5. Have A Cheat Day
Once a week, we have whatever we like, we satisfy our cravings. Be it eating biriyani, or KFC, we have non-veg or rice or both once a week.
Its not easy to maintain a diet. During the first few days we were craving to have a piece of pastry or a scoop of icecream. But after 2 weeks, we started to feel different. Although it hasn't started showing out in our appearance, we feel lighter now. Last time i checked, i had already lost 2 kgs. And my husbands cholesterol has gone down. So we are hopeful.
I've heard someone say "Have breakfast like a KING, have lunch like a QUEEN, and have dinner like a BEGGAR". This is apparently true. The reason being, our metabolism is on the highest side when we wake up, and it decreases as the day goes by. So its least during night. That is why it is best to have a light and early dinner, because all the food we eat during night does not give you energy, rather it is going to get sedimented as fat onto our body.
There are some things we avoided for the sake of the diet. We avoided having sweets and sugary items, tea only on alternate days, avoided maida products, fired and oily stuff, avoided banana, and vegetables that grow underground. But we have carrots almost every day. We drink 1 cup of green tea every day on empty stomach and we eat lots of vegetables and watery fruits. Once or twice a week we have egg. And we drink water whenever we feel hungry in between. We sometimes eat nuts like almond, walnut, pista etc for snacks.
People say that we should avoid eating out if we are on to reducing weight. And i know its true. But during most weekends we go out to have something. Currently, we are trying to reduce our eating out habits. Some days we become so bored of having vegetables, and would be tempted to have our cheat day early that week. But then we remind and motivate each other about the reward that we would get at the end of the week(dining out!!!). We don't have any rules on our cheat day, just that we would watch on how much we eat, and not on what we eat. So this is how we try to maintain our diet, and its been over 3 weeks now. We are trying to incorporate some kind of work-out too. I don't know if this is the healthiest diet, but this is what we follow and hoping we would be able to lose some weight :) .
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