Changes to my diet

Hi Nivedita,
Try to follow this diet. I used to follow this but with exercise. I managed to lose weight and did not put on much even though i stopped exercising. The main thing is to watch your calorie intake. And avoid saturated fats.
Some important things to follow
-Switch to fat free milk
-Cut down sugar to only 2tspns a day or lesser
-Reduce salt intake
-See to it that you use only 3-4 spoons of oil a day very strictly. Eat dosas without oil. idly podi without oil.
-Avoid coconut,potatoes,kazhangu varieties
-Avoid Coke,etc and fruit juices.
Avoid chocolates, icecream, junk
-Avoid maida, rawa

Try drinking 3 glasses of buttermilk or 2 glasses of fat free milk in a day. Eat 3 fruits a day and 2-3 servings of vegetables a day. never starve/feel hungry. Eat healthy.

Morning when u get up
Warm water with lime.NO HONEY strictly- adds calories..

Instead of coffee why not substitute it with black tea without sugar?? Those flavored tea bags work out well. Gives you the caffeine you need.

Breakfast-Oats Do u eat it with milk and sugar? Minimize your sugar intake to not more than 2 tspns a day.
Try this- Boil oats in water with salt and some vegetables like carrot, cabbage,peas and beans- half cook them. This makes a nice fillling soup in the morning. See to it that you eat 4-5 tsps of oats. Not more than that.
Also add a fruit to your breakfast- orange, apple, pears, papaya,grapes(12-15) etc.

Around 10 30: One fruit/ veg salad

Lunch: Can you replace rice with broken what?
I cup of broken wheat+ poriyal+ sambar/rasam
Buttermilk made with fat free milk.

Around 3 30 - 4 another fruit with black tea

Evening when you get home- black tea/ buttermilk with handful of roasted grams or bhelpuri(without sev-only pufed rice and onion,tomato and chutneys) or corn/2-3 marie biscuits/wheat crackers
Again dinner- idly-3 or
Dosa-2-3 (ragi, wheat) or
chapathi-2
with lost of sambar/sabji.

Give 2hrs gap between dinner and sleep.

Hope this helps..

 

Hi Niv,

Honey and lemon juice with warm water early in the morning on empty stomach is very good to reduce ur weight... Pls dont replace sugar natura pills.. coz itseems it has an effect on health.. thats wht my doc says... honey though has same calories is very good for health.. and can be had in moderation... just dont have too much of it...

Sprouts is very good for health... its even better than the whole beans as when it sprouts its easier for ur body to digest... i generally sprout diff beans.. like one day green bean, one day black bean, white bean, red bean.. even whole masoor daal is very good... i m very lazy.. so i sprout it my way.. which is a easy way... i just soak it in water overnight.. in morning i drain the water... and leave the beans (it shud be wet n nt dry,... so if it dries.. sprinkle some water)... by next day it sprouts...
Sprouts as such is very healthy, but nt many like its taste... so add it to ur diet.. u can mix a little salt, pepper, lime juice and also coriander leaves... and onions.. it tastes good... if u want to eat it daily... then hv it just a little daily.. else u can hv it maybe twice a week... if u find the sprouts r too hard to eat.. just steam cook it a little so that they get soft... just twist it a little.. after all u need to satisfy ut tast buds also rt.. ;-)

 

Hi Nivedhita,

Just try these three things:

1. Drink 2.5 Litres of water
2. Exercise Daily for half an hour
3. Eat rice only for lunch (1 cup only - buy these measuring cups from reliance fresh), for breakfast eat a food made out of wheat, for lunch - have 1 cup rice, 1 cup dal/thick sambar/thick rasam, 1 cup of vege sabji, 1 cup of salad and for dinner have 2 phulkas, 1 cup dal [NO SABJI] and 2 cups of salad.

Salad is very important to have in the beginning of ur lunch/dinner and do NOT avoid it.

If you want to drink milk or curd, you can, but use only skimmed milk [0.1% fat] and low fat curd [0.1 %]. Milk, you should drink around 250 ml to 500 ml Daily.

Happy weight reducing. :thumbsup

Cheers,
Reshma

 

Hi Aruna, Anees ,

When i started drinking more water i too had the same washroom problem.. encouraged me to know the solution..
this is what i came to know.. it seems that in the starting days of our water therapy.. i.e when we drink more water it helps in cleaning up our body..cleaning toxins etc.. around the cells in body.. and cause to visit wash room frequently.... but when we continue drinking water slowly cells start absorbing water and it increase the glow of skin and good health..and visits to washroom decreases..
Drinking atleast half liter luke warm water early in the morning is more important..Computer Typing
hence continue drinking water.. hope problem is solved..
regards
Prathima