With celebrity fitness trainer Nupur Shikhare
In this eat-and-run life culture, maintaining weight can be tough and losing weight, even tougher. If you are the one who has tried it and failed to lose weight before, you may believe that diets don’ work for you. And surprisingly it’s true, until and unless it’s a well-researched diet plan for a long term. However, there are plenty of ways too, to avoid common mistakes while losing weight , as celebrity fitness trainer Nupur Shikhare guides you to be in the best shape this New Year and have a friendly bonding with correct food.
There can be many reasons for weight gain but the most important reason is lack of awareness. And that leads to various serious health issues and most adverse effect leads to obesity too. People have a myth that if they work out rigourously, they can at anything, but the truth lies below it. Your eating habit is a balancing act and involves the simple equation. If you eat more calories, then you burn, you gain more weight. And if you eat less and work out, you lose weight.
Nupur believes that there is no shortcut to have a perfect sculpted body and for weight loss, it is more crucial. But for those who are on their toes for work, he suggests 5 simple ways to avoid weight gain and that includes eating healthy, sound sleep of 7 hours, drinking lots of water and then repeats them all.
He further advises “6 small meals throughout the day is perfect and the time gap between meals should not be more than 3 hours” It is also suggested to reduce the carbohydrate intake during the evening meal. And drinking at least 3 or 4 litres of water is mandatory.
Since the urban lifestyle is a major contribution to the increasing weight problem among the masses. Drinking, smoking and late night working hours are the big time contributors to weight problem and moreover they lead several other body disorders with time. Lack of sleep is a direct result of such lifestyle and has a direct link to hunger, overeating and weight gain.
In this busy scheduled life where rushing to gym or health centre can be a tough task, Nupur suggests that even little bit of warm up at home and couple of exercises can help a lot Any cardio activity for good 45 minutes is feasible along with this running, cycling, skipping and swimming can be a good choice for weight loss. Working on improving every aspect of fitness like strength, flexibility, endurance, agility, body balance, stamina can automatically affect the weight loss problem and a good body ensues.
Expert tips:
- Start your meal with soup or salad to help fill you up.
- Add low-fat salad dressings such as vinaigrette made with olive oil.
- Raw vegetables steamed, not fried or breaded.
- Intake of cereals in balanced equation and fresh fruits.
- Avoid high-calorie snacks.