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Eating regularly throughout the day is the ideal way to eat when dieting. Sticking to a regular meal schedule helps you avoid starvation.
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Depriving your body of the needed nourishment for too many hours will make you overeat when you finally sit to eat. So, it's better not to skip meals.
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Cutting down out intake of salt and sodium rich foods helps solving the water retention problem and improves our ability to lose weight. Avoid high sodium foods like ketchup, achaar, namkeens, cheese and salad dressings.
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Reduce the amount of sugars consumed. Eliminating all soda and soft drinks but not drastically modifying the rest of your diet will yield weight loss.
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Consume raw fruits and vegetables in form of salads and raitas in every meal. These provide adequate vitamins, minerals and fibre. Fibre is essential as it aids in digestion, has an effective role in managing obesity and cardiovascular problems.
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Eat plenty of fresh vegetables and fruits. Provided that you are eating about one-third of the diet as fruits & vegetables, you should notice rapid weight loss because the ample fruit consumption helps fill the stomach faster encouraging less high calorie foods to be consumed.
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Exercise regularly. Do brisk walking or meditation at least for 20-40 minutes in a day.
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Brisk walking for just 10-20 minutes early morning can help you burn up calories faster.
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Exercising doesn't give you the liberty to indulge in all kind of junk and oily foods. Having a burger or pizza once in a blue moon is OK but making them a part of your daily meals will take away all the benefits your fitness programme could give you.
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Increase the consumption of complex carbohydrates like whole wheat, millet (jowar) and barley (bajra). Complex carbohydrates have less than half as many calories as the same amount of fat. One gram of complex carbohydrate has four calories; one gram of fat has nine calories.
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Restrict refined products such as flour (maida) and its products such as bread, noodles, macaronis and pastas in regular diet.
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Restrict fat and cholesterol rich foods. Only non-vegetarian foods (like eggs and dairy products) are good sources of cholesterol, however saturated fatty acids present in butter, ghee, vanaspati and coconut get metabolised to cholesterol in our body.
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Drink plenty of water (6-8 glasses) in a day. By drinking more water your kidneys will be stimulated, helping to reduce water retention; and, in the process, your body will burn some more calories
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The best exercises that are sustainable and safe to lose weight are aerobic exercises. Aerobic exercises usually involve vigorous exercises sustained over a period of several minutes and their effect is to increase the efficiency of the lungs, heart and blood circulation.
