The Ultimate Diet for Lockdown

During these unprecedented times, we all have to stay back home. There are lots of challenges that are coming our way every day. Right from working from home, managing home, looking after your kids, there’s hardly a way you can steal any moment for yourself. Your schedule forces you to sit for longer hours or maybe function in a way that makes you unhealthy and exhausted. Also, the charm of trying new dishes and hogging on them has literally resulted into increase of weight in most of us.
By the time, the world adapts itself to the new normal, we would definitely not want us to be unhealthy or put on unnecessary ounces.

WHAT YOU MUST DO?
At least a 30-minutes exercise is must for all of us.
No matter how packed your day is, try finding half an hour for yourself.
Focus on practicing a fitness regime on a regular basis. It may be yoga, strength, or cardio, the best being a mix of all. This helps in strengthening, increasing flexibility, improved stamina (that is must during the Coronavirus scare), and losing weight.
Ideally, you must not be unhappy with your appearance. But it is important to keep your body fit when you are staying indoor all day.


HOW ABOUT FOLLOWING A PROPER DIET CHART?
If you have struggling finding uncommon/pricey ingredients and items to maintain a fad diet chart, the best way is to unfollow it.
You can only follow a proper diet when you can easily find the ingredients around you.

It should be something that you have been eating all these years. The mantra is to channelize the same meal in a planned way.

*Start your day with nuts soaked overnight. Do not rush into chewing them fast. Chew them slow and proper.
*Have a glass of lukewarm water. In case you intend to lose weight, have lukewarm water with lemon and honey.
*Limit your tea/coffee intake to a maximum of two cups a day. You can have milk tea/coffee in this way.
*For breakfast, you can club fresh fruits/vegetable juice/fresh fruit juice with your breakfast menu.
*Think of breakfast options like poha/ besan chila/ vermicelli/ toast/ idli. You can definitely have a stuffed paratha too, just make sure you do not do that often. Once a week, won’t cause much harm.
*Avoid long gaps between your meals. Eat more often, in lesser quantity. Stop eating before you are full. Observe your intake capacity and plan accordingly.
*Your lunch is the best meal to hog on spicy, little oily or tongue savouring food. If you plan to eat something special which you know makes you feel heavy- try accommodating it for your lunch. This way you can easily digest the food by the end of the way.
* For evening snacks, try having items like mango shake, watermelon punch, nimbu sharbat, coconut water with a handful of nuts. These items are easily available nowadays in most part of the country. You can also have light snacks like bhelpuri, popcorn, sweet corns, chickpea salad, sprouts to make you fuller without adding unnecessary calories.
*Try maintaining a two-hour gap between the evening snacks and the dinner.
*Make sure you have your dinner at least three hours before you sleep. An early dinner is always preferred.
*Try having more of veggies and lentils for your dinner. Eat a chapatti less but have more of lentils/veggies. Ghee is a healthy add-on, hence you can take it once a day.
*You can have salads for dinner, add paneer/chicken to it, as per your preference.

WHAT TO HAVE BEFORE/AFTER YOUR WORKOUT?
*Do not eat for a gap of at least 1-1.5 hours before your workout time. Ensure that you do not feel bloated/full around your workout time.
*Have a glass of lukewarm water or black coffee 40 minutes before the workout.
*Post workout, have a glass of lukewarm lemon water, fresh juice, sattu drink, or Kadha (decoction of herbs and spices).
*Eat only after a gap of minimum an hour after your workout session.

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