9 minutes agoAuthor: Gaurav Tiwari
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9 different goddesses are worshiped during the 9 days of Navratri. All goddesses provide different achievements. To please Mother Goddess, some devotees observe a fast for 9 days. To attain happiness and prosperity, they worship Mata Rani by giving up food or having a moderate breakfast.
If we observe the fast properly during these 9 days, we can not only please the Goddess but also improve our health. Proper planning of fasting can also help a lot in weight loss.
However, people usually make some mistakes during fasting, which should be avoided from repeating. Most people give up food and salt during the fast. Due to this, lack of energy is felt in the body. To overcome this, people eat a lot of sweets or other things containing sugar. Due to this, the fast is being followed, but instead of benefiting the health, it starts getting harmed and the weight also does not reduce.
so today ‘Health Form’ In this we will know how to lose weight in 9 days of Navratri. You will also learn that-
- What kind of diet should be followed during fasting days?
- If you want to lose weight, what mistakes should be avoided?
The world is crazy about fasting tradition to lose weight
Dr. Anu Aggarwal, senior nutritionist from Delhi and founder of ‘OneDietToday’, says that doctors and many scientists around the world agree that the most effective and side-effect free solution for weight loss is dieting and exercise. Here, there is a package for complete 9 days of Navratri fasting, this makes the task even easier.
Right diet plan is important
- Dr. Anu Aggarwal says that starting exercise is a bit easier than dieting. With a little discipline, you can make it a part of your routine, but for the sake of taste, people are not able to follow the right diet plan along with exercise. This is where everything goes wrong.
- If you are thinking of losing weight during Navratri, then it is important to follow the right diet plan. For this, instead of making a very long list, you can bring seasonal fruits from the market. If fruits are very expensive then you can take cucumber, carrot, cucumber etc.
- To supply protein in the body, you can eat cashews and almonds. You can consume peanuts for fat. Apart from this, you can include curd and buttermilk in breakfast. Vitamins and minerals will be supplied by green vegetables. To supply sodium, you can eat rock salt (fasting salt).
- If you collect these ingredients for breakfast during Navratri, you can easily lose weight without much effort.
- Dr. Anu Aggarwal says that usually people include all these things in their diet, but they make the mistake of eating peanuts and other dry fruits by frying them in ghee.
- Pudding is made from buckwheat flour and a lot of ghee and sugar is added to it. Due to this, a lot of fat gets accumulated in the body and we consume a lot of calories.
- Some people have breakfast only once or twice a day as a rule, but they eat so much food in one go that the body becomes lethargic. Due to these few mistakes, most of the weight loss plans fail during Navratri.
If you want to lose weight during Navratri, you will have to avoid these mistakes.
Dr. Anu Aggarwal says that during religious fasting like Navratri, people start the fast with full devotion, but due to removing carbs (roti, rice) from the diet, the body soon starts feeling lack of energy. In such a situation, people start drinking tea or coffee again and again for energy. It contains a lot of sugar and milk. Due to this the real purpose of fasting is left behind.
People stop exercising during fasting days. Most people believe that exercising during fasting will bring down the energy level of the body. Whereas the reality is completely different from this. If you do regular exercise every day, your metabolism will be boosted and it will be easier to digest food. Whatever you are eating during the fast will be absorbed easily. This will also help in burning calories and will lead to weight loss.
Most of the people in India eat so much carbs and sugary food during the fast that after Navratri, their health deteriorates instead of improving.
Due to frequent consumption of tea or coffee, the quality of sleep deteriorates or one starts getting less sleep. That’s why people stay awake till late night and eat.
The result is that after the end of the fast, many people complain of brain fogging, mood swings and irritability.
Therefore, do not compromise with diet and exercise during the 9 days of Navratri. Along with following the right diet plan, also do necessary exercises. See the graphic to see some of the mistakes people often make.
John Hopkins neuroscientist researched fasting for 25 years
Neuroscientist Mark Matson of John Hopkins School of Medicine, after 25 years of research, found that our body is already prepared for fasting. It does not require much effort for fasting. Our ancestors have given us many unique gifts in the form of evolution. One of them is that we can survive for many days without eating anything. Our body is already prepared that at any time such an occasion may come when we will have to remain hungry. Therefore our body stores enough energy for crisis.
He found in the research that if our ancestors were so fit and healthy, then one of the main reasons for this was that fasting was an integral part of their life. If we want, we can also stay fit by adopting it.
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