Written By: Debjani Arora | Updated : February 1, 2016 6:13 PM IST
Its day 10 of hard work, sweat and some real good effort. You really deserve a pat on your back for being true to your commitment. But don t get lazy just yet, instead motivate yourself enough to keep up with your weight loss plan.
Morning: Wake up at the scheduled time, even on a Sunday. Don t let yourself slip from your fitness routine. Instead of lazing around, get up, head to the kitchen and brew yourself some ginger tea to revive your senses. Add a piece of cardamom for added flavour and benefits. Here are 11 reasons to replace your morning cuppa with ginger tea.
Healthy recipes
Weekends make you want to binge eat, but you know better. Now is not the time to get weak. Stick to healthy eating habits but give it a twist to pamper your tastebuds. Wondering how to do that, let us help you:
Breakfast: Start your day with an Indian breakfast. Yes, your instant oats and a bowl cornflakes are healthy, but try having upma, poha or parathas that will give you loads of carbohydrates, minerals and proteins to help you stay satiated for long hours. This is one way you can save yourself from mindless bingeing mid-morning. Know what is more healthy oats, cornflakes or idli and parathas.
Lunch: How about keeping the flavour of your meals the same by choosing a balanced healthy Indian diet. Include lots of salads and a bowl of tomato or vegetable soup as an appetizer. Trade your white rice for brown, with a bowl of lauki moong dal, one bowl of mixed vegetable or paneer sabzi, curd, low calorie chicken tikka and two rotis makes it a healthy full course meal. Here is how you can reduce the calories in an Indian diet plan.
Dinner: Enough of having just the staple Indian food, its weekend and you would really like to have something light and exciting to give your food buds some reward for abiding with your good habits for nine whole days. How about trying stir fried vegetables with tofu or grilled chicken risotto or chicken with veggies and quinoa. Make sure you have it early and exercise the art of portion control.
Snacks: Now if you have to avoid binge eating it is better you have your survivor-plan ready to overcome the hunger pangs. Don t just sit with a pack of salty pop-corn to watch your favourite sitcom. Instead, try an unusual spicy fruit salad or grilled vegetables with walnut sauce to spice up the snack scene.
Exercises for beginners
Day 10 is the right time to up your ante so add more reps and sets to your exercise. However, don t be too harsh on yourself take rest and keep yourself hydrated enough to gain the maximum benefits out of your exercise schedule.
At home: You can do a variety of stretches and free hand exercises to help your body tone the muscles and burn more calories. Squats, push-ups, plank, scissor shifts and a whole lot of exercises can take care of your problematic area and send in an adrenaline rush. Keep the sets well-spaced with a gap of 30 seconds each. Remember if done wrong these exercises can also lead to a variety of problems so go slow and don t try to up your pace if you are not confident about it. Here are few simple home exercises that can make you fit and leaner in no time.
Gymming: If you have been lifting weights during the previous days, it is better to go for cardio exercises today. Use the treadmill and increase your speed by one more level (than what you usually did) and try the same with the inclination too. Spend a good fifteen minutes on the treadmill and try varying your speed and inclination. Don t lose balance though it could be fatal. Do the same with the bike and elliptical trainer too. A day spent doing cardio is really awesome and what more you can wrap up the session within 45 minutes too.
Yoga: You can also spend a good amount of time doing yoga which needs nothing more than calm, quite environment and a yoga mat. You can benefit a lot by doing yoga get leaner, detox and have your vital organs healthy. If you wondering which exercises you should be doing here is a few of them you can try at home.
Sleep well tip:
Change your bed sheet to a white one as it helps you to sleep well. As we all know that white is the colour of peace and helps experience tranquillity after a stressed-out day. This is a reason why you sleep so comfortably in your hotel rooms which is decked up with white bed sheets and pillows. Also, the colour white creates a halo like effect in a dark and dimly lit room. The clean effect that is reflected by the white sheets and pillows helps to sleep better as pointed out by the survey conducted by National Sleep Foundation. Here is how pink walls and white bed sheets help you sleep better.
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Disclaimer: If you follow a fitness plan already, consult your nutritionist before switching to this one. If you are allergic to any of the foods/ingredients mentioned, please do not consume it. Do not follow this plan without consulting your doctor if you suffer from a health condition hypertension, hypotension, diabetes, etc. or are pregnant.
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