A way to lose weight is to learn to control sugar cravings.
Do you know how? Including good fats in your diet can help you manage sugar cravings and help in your weight loss journey.
Nuts are high in minerals and a source of good fats. So try to snack on nuts and see how you restrain yourself from eating chocolates or brownies.
Oh! The stressful days have made it difficult for us to enjoy our food. It seems like you have dedicated your life to your laptop, chair, desk, and files.
Do you know eating quickly without understanding your food does not help your body?
You might have heard your elders say eat slowly and if you are eating, think about your food. When your mind is somewhere else, tense, you will tend to eat faster.
Your brain takes 20 minutes to understand this, and then it sends signals to you to stop eating right away. Still, if you eat faster, your brain might get confused, and you might not get the signs of being full, and end up overeating.
As mentioned in the above point, you might not come to know that you are overeating. Learn to manage your stress, especially when you are a working person.
The workload is unavoidable when you have a task to complete with a deadline. The same is the situation with stress. Mental health and physical health are correlated, and you need to take care of both.
You cannot ignore your mental health while focusing on your physical health and vice versa.
Are you the one who likes to drink cola or a milkshake during lunch break? You are doing wrong with yourself.
Do you know liquids tend to increase your appetite? Yes, they boost your hunger, and you eat more. However, we generally forget that store-bought shakes contain empty calories.
Pilates WorkoutsInstead, go for coconut water, nimbu-pani or chaas.
Do you consciously choose fruit over chocolate to satiate your sweet craving or dahi with seasoning over a brownie and ice cream on a hot summer day? Then you have won half the battle.
Being aware of the natural options, including fruits, salads, whole grains, seeds, nuts and avoiding desserts, ice cream, and snacks, can go a long way to staying healthy and happy.
Being aware of the natural options, including fruits, salads, whole grains, seeds, nuts and avoiding desserts, ice cream, and snacks, can go a long way to staying healthy and happy.
If your work is such that you need to rely on packaged food, read the label. People who generally rely on packaged foods should develop a habit of checking the labels on the packet and avoid food having high sugar or sodium content.
Therefore, look for organic, low salt, low preservative options. They may be more expensive, but our primary responsibility is towards ourselves. So cut down on that additional pair of shoes, invest the same amount in making yourself healthy.
So, you need to understand that just counting your calories or tracking your calories would not do everything.
It would help if you exercised too. Make a routine and exercise regularly. It seems uneasy for at least 15 days, but once you develop the habit, you will feel an urge to exercise daily.
You can do any form of exercise. Be it yoga, Pilates, HIIT workouts or weight training. Nobody can deny the benefits of walking. Anyone can get time to at least walk. Short spans of walking between work are also beneficial.
Many studies prove that getting adequate sleep helps your weight loss process. Sleep deficit is the worst thing you give to yourself.
You work for the whole day and then again sit at night to complete your pending work or extra work that you cannot do in the daytime.
Despite knowing that you have to get up early in the morning, you sleep late at night. Sleeping late at night increases your sugar cravings, and you end up eating a lot of sweets. So, do not stay awake late at night.