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8 Things To Do on a Saturday To Lose Weight Through The Week

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As Saturday approaches – we start planning for parties, get-togethers, outings, and all of them revolve around food, but if you’re working on losing weight, be cautious. Weekends, especially Saturdays, can undo your week-long efforts. Instead of turning it into a ‘cheat day,’ use Saturday as a chance to reset, plan, and ensure a smooth week ahead on your weight loss journey. Check out 8 simple tips in our latest post! 1. Have a Nutritious Breakfast: Start your day right by choosing a nutritious breakfast, known as the most important meal. While tempting, sugary options like waffles, packaged juices, and sweet cereals can load you up on empty calories and keep unhealthy cravings lingering. Opt for healthier choices from the Rati Beauty diet to maintain successful weight loss, even on lazy weekends. 2. Plan and Buy Groceries for the Entire Week: Use Saturday to plan and shop for groceries for the entire week. This strategy significantly reduces the likelihood of impulsively selecti...

6 Weight Loss Tips to Ignore Completely

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Losing weight isn’t a cakewalk, particularly when there’s a lot of unnecessary data and tips driving you towards the wrong direction. It’s important to follow a healthy diet and exercise routine to lose weight successfully and steer clear of these tips that need to be completely ignored. 1. You Can Burn All Extra Calories in the Gym: Spending hours together in the gym will not help you burn all extra calories and melt away the fat layers. Weight loss can be achieved only by following a calorie-deficit diet, such as on the  Rati Beauty app, and doing a bit of exercise – maintaining the balance of 80% diet and 20% exercise ratio. 2. Fats Make you Fat: Please do not cut out all forms of fat and go “fat free and low fat” in order to lose weight. In fact, healthy fats boost the metabolism a great deal, regulate hunger hormones, and stimulate the mobilization and burning of stored fat. Avocados, chia seeds, ghee, salmon, olive oil, almonds, walnuts, and even dark chocolate are a...

How To Lose Weight on Autopilot

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Making your way through superfoods, detox teas, expensive gym memberships, and fad diets can leave you with decision fatigue where you have lots of options to choose from but actually do not know what would eventually work. This decision fatigue can leave you overtaxed and you might even give up the whole idea of losing weight and getting fitter. For many, losing weight may seem like a never-ending battle which would need a lot of planning and strategy. When there’s so much stress around shedding extra weight, it can be a bit overwhelming, and that’s why we want to help you guys out with easy options to drop weight on autopilot, especially if you are just starting out. 1. Lose Weight without Food Deprivation: There are hardly any weight loss diets out there that encourage you to eat really well, but the diets on the Rati Beauty app help shed extra pounds without depriving you of food and takes the stress off you on what to eat next to lose weight. This diet smoothens out the path fo...

14 Home Remedies to Get Rid of Dark Eyelids

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Darkness or hyperpigmentation can occur on any part of the face – most commonly in the undereye area, corners of the mouth, on the lips, and so on. But some women experience hyperpigmentation patches on their eyelids as well. Sun exposure is the most common cause for darkness around the eyes and on the lids as most people tend to avoid sunscreen application on these parts of the face. It is important to apply sunscreen all over the face and neck area, even under the eyes and over the lids to avoid sun damage and pigmentation. Ageing is another reason for dark eyelids. As the skin ages, drop in collagen and dryness can also make the skin around the eyes dark. Applying eye creams that contain collagen-boosting ingredients can help improve the appearance of skin, and eventually, the eyelid pigmentation will also reduce. Another major reason is lack of sleep and extended screen time. Lack of sleep does not allow the body to regenerate the cells and we end up waking up with dark skin around...

12 Food Combinations That Boost Weight Loss

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When they say, “two is better than one,” they are probably talking about these amazing food combinations that help to boost weight loss with their different nutrient combinations. When combined together, they amp up nutrient quotient of the dish, increase metabolism, and help burn fat much better than when used alone. For example, combining high glycemic fruits with a slow-digesting fiber source will help to stabilize blood sugar levels, absorb vitamins from the fruit better, and prevent unnecessary hunger pangs, and discourage fat storage. If you want to trim your waist in a jiffy and melt down the extra pounds, here are some food combinations you should try. 1. Apple and Peanut Butter: When you top up apple slices with peanut butter, it becomes a healthy weight loss snack with fiber coming from the apple and plant-based protein from peanuts. If frequent hunger pangs are melting away your will power, try this delicious food combo. 2. Almonds and Pistachios: You might love almo...

15 Foods that Fill you Up and Curb Appetite

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Have you noticed how you feel hungry shortly after having a large meal? It’s hard to ignore that gnawing pain in the tummy which eventually pushes you to pick more food (most of the times, it’s an unhealthy snack) to shoo away the hunger. This kind of an eating pattern leads to frequent snacking, and eventual weight gain. More so for dieters who want to lose weight, hunger pangs seem to hit harder. Switching to high-volume foods, lower in calories, with good amount of fiber and protein content would keep you satiated and full for longer, without adding a lot of calories, and it’s a major key to beat unnecessary hunger pangs. Also, eating slowly and being mindful while doing so, keeps you in tune with fullness signals when you have had enough food to meet energy requirements. In this post, we have the list of 15 foods that fill you up and curb appetite so that you can remain in calorie deficit and continue losing weight. Download Rati Beauty app for detailed and effective weight loss ...

15 Best Foods for Hair Growth

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Long, shiny and silky hair is what every woman dreams of, but various factors like out of whack hormones, nutritional deficiencies, wrong choice of hair products stand between that dream. Hair is considered crowning glory for women and when that mane is healthy and shiny, can we ask for more? There should be no doubt at all nutrition plays an important role in hair growth and certainly, switching to a healthier diet with hair-friendly nutrients such as vitamin E, protein, vitamin C, biotin, iron, and healthy fats will do your hair a whole lot of good. If you have been suffering from hair thinning and hair fall, check out this list of best foods for hair growth so that you can pick them up on your next grocery outing to get luscious, healthy, and beautiful locks. 1. Eggs: Our hair is made up of protein and amino acids. And luckily, egg is a rich source of proteins, essential nutrients and vitamins that are essential for hair growth. Vitamin A, which can be found in egg yolk, has the ...

14 Healthy Foods you are Probably Overeating

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Excess of everything is bad, and the same age-old theory applies for “healthy food” as well. There’s no doubt that clean and healthy eating is the foundation of a good weight loss strategy, but the point is to remain within calorie deficit even with the healthiest of foods. No food is calorie free; there’s some amount of calories that come attached with healthy food as well, and without mindful eating, they can put you into calorie surplus and lead to weight gain instead. There’s a wrong notion that there’s no need to count calories with healthy food, but absolutely not, you need to practice portion control with every food that’s on your plate! In this post, we list down 14 healthy foods you are probably overeating and might be the reason you are gaining weight. 1. Peanut Butter: This delicious treat is packed with protein, healthy fats, monounsaturated fat, minerals, and other nutrients and is a healthy replacement for jam and chocolate spreads, but make no mistake, this is still a...

How To Regrow Eyebrows Thicker

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Did you accidentally overpluck your eyebrows recently? Or just want them thick and fuller like Deepika Padukone? Are you still filling in eyebrows every single day to make them look fuller to frame your face? Then, to make your life a little easier and to regrow wispy eyebrows , here are some effective tips. Without wasting a minute, let us jump into the article. 1. Stimulate Hair Growth By Exfoliation: Exfoliating the eyebrow skin helps to stimulate the hair growth. It helps the hair come out of the skin faster. Try a baby brush to exfoliate the area as you do not want to be too harsh on the area as it tends to tugging and pulling of the eye area. And the last thing you want after sparse eyebrows is crow’s feet. Massage the brush in circular movements in the direction of your hair growth. Repeat this twice a day 2. Try Natural Hair Growth Boosters: Apply olive oil, Castor oil or Vitamin E oil using a Q tip applicator over the entire length of eyebrows. Do this at least thrice a da...

Does Drinking Cold Water Burn More Calories than Hot Water?

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Drinking water is of supreme importance to keep yourself healthy, prevent dehydration, and imperative to lose weight, along with running your physiological system smoothly. If a person is consuming less than 8 glasses of water per day, he/she may always feel hungry because our body cannot clearly distinguish between hunger and thirst signals, and most often instead of sipping a glass of water, we tend to rip open a bag of potato chips (adding a lot of empty calories). Water also helps to curb appetite and is a zero-calorie drink that boosts metabolism, along with flushing out toxins, helps in absorbing nutrients. However, there’s a lot of confusion whether to drink cold or hot water to burn more calories. Now, there’s a talk about sparkling water too being a good option on a weight loss diet. That’s why, in this post, we discuss in detail what kind of water is better to gulp down in your weight loss journey and why: How Does Water Help with Weight Loss? 1. Suppresses Appetite: Whe...

7 Things you Should Never Do to Lose Weight

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There is no doubt that being overweight is not good for the health, but resorting to extreme measures in order to rapidly lose weight is an extremely bad idea. Losing weight can be a never-ending battle when correct strategies are not applied. Fatigue, lethargy, hair fall, loss of lean muscle, nutritional deficiencies, depression are some common outcomes of following wrong methods to shed extra pounds. That’s why, in this post, we list down things you should never do to lose weight so that you can steer clear of them if you desperately trying to get lighter and healthier. 1. Crash Dieting: A weight loss diet should not be based on food deprivation and extreme calorie cutting. Many people develop the misconception that one needs to starve all through the day in order to get lean and look trimmed down. Food deprivation is promoted by certain fad diets that only work for a short period of time and once you come off them, you tend to put on more weight. To lose weight successfully, one n...

How To Lose Weight on a Tight Budget

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There’s a huge misconception that dieting and weight loss programs are an expensive affair and it’s just that – a misconception! On the contrary, the right kind of diet with the correct strategies would not burn holes in your pocket at all. Also, if you think hitting the gym is absolutely necessary to melt away fat, it’s very much possible to lose weight, staying at home, and without spending hours together on the treadmill. Nor is it imperative to spend money on gimmicky fat-burner pills, appetite-suppressant tablets, sauna belts, detox drinks that rarely work. If you desperately want to lose weight to get lighter, healthier, and fitter, but the budget constraints are pulling you back, read about some amazing ways to lose weight on a tight budget. 1. Start on the Rati Beauty Weight Loss Diet: You can loose oodles of weight without losing a lot of money by following diets on the Rati Beauty food. The healthy food that we put you on is not expensive and we encourage you to eat the rig...

15 Foods to Eat For Nourishing Dry Skin

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Dry skin is an issue that almost all skin types encounter; even oily and sensitive skin types go through their “dry skin” phase with itchiness, stretchy feeling, redness, and inflammation being common symptoms. If you are someone who slathers tons of heavy-duty moisturizer to calm and soothe excessively dry and irritated skin. This type of skin has less moisture compare to other skin types leading to stretchy, flaky feeling. The situation worsens with age. So dry skin beauties lather themselves with a lot of moisturizers, lotions and creams hoping to get supple and softer skin, but in reality that is just half the job done. Dry skin tends to lose moisture, soon so one needs to heal the skin from inside. Apart from using cosmetic products, one needs to include following foods in daily diet which will hydrate and nourish the dry skin effectively. 1. Oatmeal: It’s a great option to apply topically as well as consume internally to calm down dry and irritated skin. Oatmeal has avenanthram...

10 Strategies to Look Leaner and Fitter

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Okay, so your best friend’s wedding is coming up in a month or it’s your anniversary in three months – and you want to look leaner and a little lighter to fit into the gorgeous outfit that you bought a size smaller – sounds familiar? Getting lean and fit is a daily struggle for people who look for shortcuts and unhealthy means to do so (read – pills, potions, and fat cutters), but it can be a bit easier for people who realize that it takes time, effort, and they follow the right strategies in order to lose weight. To help you out, we list down 10 ways to look leaner and fitter. 1. Start on a Healthy Weight Loss Diet:  The right kind of weight loss diet will put you into calorie deficit (essential to lose weight) without extreme food deprivation or starvation mode or resorting to severe calorie cutting. The diets on Rati Beauty app include only healthy and nutritious food, maintain you in a calorie deficit, and help you lose weight the healthy way. All the diet programs and ...

20 Summer Fruits That Boost Weight Loss

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Summer is a good season to lose weight, you know why, you are more active now and the metabolism is higher than during winters, and you are gulping down plenty of water – everything adds up here and that’s why your chances are brighter to get lighter and healthier this time of the year. But then, you have to eat right, follow a healthy weight loss plan (such as on Rati Beauty app ), and be active to see the pounds melting off. However, weight loss is also about tiny things adding up to give that extra push and “fruits” fall into this category. In summer, fresh fruits are available aplenty, in all sizes, colors, and in all varieties and the best thing is that they come packed with loads of nutrients, vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, fiber, and antioxidants, all of which help in fighting extra flab and to get healthy in general. Fruits are the best way to amp up nutrition along with giving a major push to metabolism. As we have mentioned above, in summers, fruits are available in ...

How To Find a Perfect Diet Plan for Weight Loss

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Trying to lose weight by getting on a diet? While it’s an extremely good idea, watch out for fad diets that promise rapid weight loss that are based on the concept of food deprivation. The biggest issue with such diets is that they severely restrict calories and the majority of weight lost is water weight and muscle mass, without even tapping into fat deposits. That’s why it becomes imperative to get on a weight loss diet that would target fat layers and preserve muscle mass. A good diet plan should be kind to your body and mind, help you drop considerable weight, and sustain it. While following the plan, you should feel happy, energetic, and lighter. The wrong kind of diet will deprive you of enough food, sap all energy, leave you lethargic, and one would be counting days to get off it. On the wrong kind of diet, you would most likely resort to yo-yo dieting, which would make shedding extra pounds extremely difficult the next time around with lowered metabolism and out of whack hormon...