Written By: Bhavyajyoti Chilukoti | Updated : February 1, 2016 6:13 PM IST
After 11 days of waking up early, working out and nutritious diet, don t you feel good already? Isn t your aim of a healthy lifestyle slowly turning into a reality? Congratulations for the hard work, but you still have a long way to go! With each passing day, you need to get more focused and push yourself harder towards success. Here s how to kick-start your day 12.
Morning: How about starting your day by hugging someone? It could be your kid, your spouse or your parents. Hugging for at least 8-minute is enough to make your day happier. It not only strengthens trust and increases connectivity but also relieves stress and maintains your blood pressure. Here are more reasons why a hug a day keeps your doctor away.
Healthy recipes
After days of eating healthy recipes, you might be tempted to snack on junk or oily foods. But don t give in to your craving. Instead add lots of colourful vegetables and seasonal fruits to your plate.
Breakfast: You can try moong dosa, a simple and quick-to-make South Indian recipe for a wholesome and filling breakfast. You can add finely chopped vegetables and onion to enhance its taste and flavour. Don t know how to make it? Here is the whole moong dosa recipe.
Lunch: Bored of eating the same thing again and again? Well, you can substitute rice or rotis with noodles. Yes, you heard it right! This tasty sesame noodles can improve your heart health and lower cholesterol level. So what are you waiting for? Indulge in this tasty and spicy sesame noodles today.
Dinner: It's a nice idea to end your day with delicious mooli muthia and a bowl of tomato soup. Avoid eating rotis or rice for dinner to keep your calories in check. Mooli muthia provides you around 200 calories and sipping a bowl of soup gives you around 40 calories, sufficient to keep you full for an entire night. Here is how you can make this healthy gujarati recipe -- mooli muthias.
Snacks: A healthy way to keep your stomach full and reap numerous benefits is to gorge on carrots. Packed with the wellness of various nutrients, carrot is a power-packed snack. All you need to do is pack your tiffin box with carrot slices for a mid-evening snack. In addition to improving your vision, here are more reasons to gorge on healthy carrots!
Exercise for beginners
Be it at home or at gym, it is important to exercises daily without fail for a fit body. Hence, make it a habit to exercise at least for 30 minutes a day.
At home: Wondering what to do at home today? Well, you can start with lunges. Before starting with this exercise, try to do a proper warm-up for five to ten minutes. A strength-training exercise, lunges might look simple but doing it the right way is important. It helps you to lose weight and also tones your thighs and buttocks. Click on the link to know how to do lunges the correct way.
Gymming: If you have joined a gym to lose weight, then indoor cycling is a great exercise option to try it out. Unlike a treadmill, it doesn t strain your joints. You can start off with an electronic cycle that comes with a padded seat and armrests. Read more on how indoor cycling is a great way to stay fit.
Yoga: A simple and easy to do yoga pose is vrikshasana or tree pose. If you are doing it for the first time, you might face some difficulty in balancing your body on a single leg, but as you keep practicing, you will master the pose. This pose improves balance, neuromuscular coordination and also rejuvenates ligaments. Here is how to do vrikshasana at home.
Sleep: Spending late nights on your mobile phone checking Facebook updates, twitter trends or posting and liking Instagram pictures might be the reason behind your sleepless nights. To deal with this, switch off your phone at least two hours before hitting bed. Read more on how you can fight trouble sleeping by turning off your gadgets two hours before bedtime!
Well, if you are motivated to start your New Year with a bang, spread the word by tagging your friends and #NewYearNewYou and @HealthSite4U. You can even mail your pictures and we ll post in on Facebook, Instagram and share it with our TheHealthSite.com Community.
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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