Take Time to Enjoy Your Meal Positive traits: Relishing every bite of your meal helps you extract every flavor from your food which in turn will make you feel complete, otherwise because of which you may overeat. If you eat faster, then probably you don’t receive the message that you had enough. Negative traits: Research has proved that during long dinners with friends, we tend to gain more calories. The reason behind this is that while we are with our friends, we eat more and prefer high-calorie dishes, similarly like our friends. In addition, if we sit for a two hour long dinner, we tend to eat more and order deserts just to linger for long with friends. Caution: The essential point to remember is eating slowly and savoring every bite of food. This is to keep an eye over what we are eating. Also, if you can’t say no to large portion of food, then while you enter in a restaurant, ask the waiter to pack half portion for home. And if after eating the main course meal,  [...]

You might be familiar with the saying that every rule has an exception; yeah… there are lots of good and healthy advices out there, but do you know that sticking too much to them can end you up leading nowhere as mind gets frustrated after a hectic period of diet and ultimately ends in hidden indulgences. For instance: for losing of oodles of weight, you might abandon chocolate, however following too much of dieting plans strictly, may lead you gorging entire chocolate cake alone one night. Therefore, if you are looking ahead for losing weight, then the perfect key is moderation as is personalization. Tara Gidus, RD, an Orlando-based nutritionist suggests “There’s no one-sizefits- all diet plan.” Experts are of the view that good nutrition and exercising are some healthy habits that can help in slimming down, but apart from this, there is always space for minor alterations. As Rena Wing, Phd, Co-Founder of the National Weight Control Registry recommends “It’s important to  [...]

One is essentially what one eats. So, watching out one’s diet is crucial as opting for the right foods can not only provide instant succour but go a long way in maintaining a healthy body. One is perennially faced with several nerve-wrecking situations, and gorging down on what one might consider as comfort food can in fact worsen the situation. If feeling on nerve’s edge, jittery or excited, a good option would be to go in for a serving of barley based porridge, lentils, white beans, rye, wheat and green leafy salads. Green salads help generate vigour, vitality and give a sense of lightness and ease. Whole grain foods enrich our bodies with concentrated energy and aid as natural soothers. Sugar majorly causes surge in insulin levels causing a temporary sense of high that is transitory and hence best avoided. Those undertaking long journeys and with tendencies of motion sickness should go in for foods that have an alkalising effect on the body. An upset stomach is the lead cause  [...]

Dieting is the job which has no alternative and there is no option for exercising and also for keeping the body fit and fine. Here are some of the tips which may definitely prove effective and also helpful for the proper diet and exercise tips. Before the diet and exercise tips, here’s a quip about working out: “Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.” - Robert M. Hutchins Effective Diet and Exercise Tips The best time to work out. The best time to work out is when you can   fit it into your schedule.  You don’t need to use “time” as an excuse to skip a workout.  If done properly, you CAN complete a total body workout in forty-five minutes (complete with warm-up, cardio and stretching).  Keep the rest between sets to a minute, include a series of 4-5 “bursts” of high intensity cardio after resistance training, and end with a stretch of your personal “hot spots” or, the areas of your body that tend to be the tightest. Select  [...]