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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...
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10 Gluten-Free Options To Make Roti

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Chapatti or roti is a staple in Indian kitchen and don’t we all love rotis with daal and sabzi, served with lots of love! Wheat roti is definitely healthy as it is made from whole grain and contains fiber, iron and protein, but a lot of people are reporting to be intolerant to “gluten” content in wheat. If you have tested for gluten intolerance, it would be prudent to give up food with gluten in them. But if you love rotis/chappatis, you may ask, if not wheat, then what? In this post, we list down 10 gluten-free options to roll out your rotis with. What is Gluten? Gluten is a group of proteins, comprising of glutenin and gliadin, which is commonly found in wheat. Gluten gives the flour its sticky and glue-like texture when mixed with water. In India, wheat is the commonly-consumed gluten-rich food; however, people with certain medical conditions and autoimmune disorders such as celiac disease and irritable bowel syndrome are allergic to gluten where their immune system triggers a re...
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9 Signs That you Are Skinny Fat or Metabolically Obese

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“Skinny” can be such a deceiving word. Just because you look skinny doesn’t mean that you’ve a healthy body and fall into the “physically fit” category. Yes girls, there is something called as skinny-fat’. This means that you appear skinny, but you’ve a body which has high body fat that puts you at the same health risk as an overweight person. Do not consider BMI (body mass index) as a marker of perfect health, because you may have perfect BMI, but you maybe metabolically obese. One may not look overweight or obese, but when you lead a sedentary lifestyle and do not practice clean eating, you might be skinny fat. Still confused? Here are 9 Signs That you Are Skinny Fat or Metabolically Obese. And it’s important to find out whether you are skinny fat because then you are the same risk of developing type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, etc. 1. Flabby Arms: If the back of your arms are loose and flabby, it is a sign of skinny fat. It is generally an indication. This is gener...
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12 Best Plant Protein Sources for Vegetarians

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People are often advised to amp up their protein content when trying to lose weight, it’s probably considered as one of the main nutrients that keeps appetite in check, burns more calories, boosts metabolism, keeps you full for longer so that you can consume fewer calories through the day. Chicken, fish, eggs, etc. are considered amazing sources of protein, but they are all non-vegetarian sources. And the biggest concern of people who are vegetarians – “how do I get enough protein?” if I am trying to lose weight? But according to experts, there are equally good plant-based protein sources that would help you trim the waistline and shed extra pounds. In this post, we list 12 protein-packed yet plant-based foods that can help you drop excess weight. Read on: 1. Sietan: Sietan is a popular meat substitute for vegans. It’s high in protein and low in carbs which makes it an excellent food for vegetarians. It’s also called wheat meat. It is exceptionally low in carbs since it is formed...
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12 Habits That Accelerate Premature Ageing

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Fine lines, wrinkles, crow’s feet, sagging skin – these are some words women absolutely dread and that’s because they are signs of ageing and though we all would like to “age gracefully,” – we would still like to retain that youthful glow and radiance. Pollution, sun exposure, wrong dietary practices are a few reasons why the skin starts to show signs of ageing much earlier, and it’s called premature ageing.  And you would be surprised to know that certain habits can ruin your youthful glow and make your skin age faster. It is important to identify these habits and avoid indulging the same to delay ageing. In this post, we list down 10 habits that accelerate premature ageing and what to do about them. 1. Skipping Sunscreen: Often we tend to underestimate the damaging effects that UV rays from the sun have on our skin. We often skip sunscreen application thinking only a short exposure to the sun may not do much damage. However, if you have started noticing fine lines, hyperpigment...
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14 L-arginine Foods That Help With Weight Loss

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Protein is a macronutrient that is believed to help a great deal in the whole weight loss process. Experts suggest eating protein-rich food to burn calories and shed extra weight. When you consume protein-rich food, it increases the level of satiety hormone “leptin,” reduces appetite by lowering the level of hunger hormone “ghrelin,” – which means you are less likely to binge. Since protein helps to repair and build muscles as well, the body tends to burn more calories, even when someone is at rest! Talking about protein – L-carnitine and L-arginine are two amino acids, that receive a lot of attention due to their contribution in fat metabolism. L-arginine, which is also called a semi-essential amino acid (the body produces it on its own as well as absorbs it from food sources as well). L-arginine has been found to improve DNA synthesis and mitochondrial performance. As we have mentioned earlier, l-arginine improves fat metabolism in the body by allowing the body to use stored fat as ...
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14 Reasons you are Not Losing Tummy Fat

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Some people say that it’s not easy to lose weight, but then everyone would unanimously agree that it’s definitely not that easy to melt away belly fat, and it’s called “stubborn fat” for a reason. Diving a little bit deeper into the making of stubborn fat – fat cells have two types of receptors – Alpha-2 and Beta-2, and these receptors decide how fat stored in the cells are used. For example, alpha-2 receptors direct the cell to store fat whereas beta-2 receptors instruct the cell to breakdown and release fat. When a fat cell has more alpha-2 receptors, it becomes extremely difficult to burn the fat stored within (even with a strict diet and exercise routine). Likewise, if beta-2 receptors are dominant in a particular fat cell, it readily participates in the fat-burning process. In a majority of people, it becomes extremely difficult to melt away tummy fat even with strict dieting and exercise because those cells have alpha-2 receptors predominantly. However, do not lose heart, read ab...
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5 Bedtime Beauty Habits For Glowing Skin

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Night-time is the best time to pamper your skin because cell repair and regeneration takes place at night and along with getting good sleep, following a proper bedtime routine will ensure that you wake up with glowing and gorgeous skin. Hence, here’s 5 Bedtime Beauty Habits that you can follow in order to wake up to a more glowing version of yourself. 1. Always Cleanse Your Face before Heading to Bed: The golden rule that you should never ever break if you want clear, clean and beautiful skin all your life – no matter how tired you are, thoroughly cleanse your face to take off all dirt, grime, oil, dust, pollutants, etc. that the surface of your skin and pores might have collected through the day. Remove every trace of makeup, never sleep with makeup or an unclean face. 2. Follow Double Cleansing: It’s a routine in which you have to first apply cleansing oil/balm all over your face, massage it gently for few minutes to remove the layer of makeup and dirt from your face and then ...
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9 Things To Do Before Sleep To Lose Weight

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We have underlined the importance of good-quality sleep in so many weight loss posts previously that we have now lost count, and it’s often one of the most overlooked factors without which significant weight loss becomes quite difficult. In fact, 7 hours of sleep is a prerequisite in order to get lean and sleep deprivation is linked strongly to increase in belly fat! Most of us tend to compromise on sleeping hours and use night-time to binge watch Netflix or spend hours watching random videos on youtube – letting such a practice negatively impact our health. Lack of sleep has a cascading effect on the body – right from the brain to the gut. Important hormones like insulin, cortisol, ghrelin, leptin, etc., go out of whack, metabolism slumps, appetite increases, and one’s decision to make the right food choices also gets impaired. If you are someone who is trying to lose weight, sleep deprivation should be addressed asap because research says that sleeping for less than 5 hours even for ...
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8 Easy Ways To Lower BMI

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Whenever the topic of losing a significant amount of weight arises, people are often asked about their BMI. Body mass index is considered as a tool to calculate body fat and used to determine whether one is underweight, within normal weight or overweight. To lose weight and bring it into normal range, you will have to first calculate your BMI. Once you know what range you are in, you can set a long-term fixed plan to get to the optimum range. BMI is also useful to find out risk factors concerning obesity-related diseases. If you are not sure about how BMI is calculated, here’s how you can do it. The ratio of your height and weight is BMI! The range of your BMI can determine whether you’re healthy or obese. If your BMI is in the range of 18.5 to 24.5, you are at a normal weight (considered a healthy range). If the BMI is ranging from 25.0 to 29.9, then you are overweight and this weight can be controlled. Lastly, if you are in the range of 30.0 or more, then you are obese and need to st...
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10 Tricks To See Weight Loss Results Fast

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When it comes to losing weight, there’s actually no need to make drastic changes and eat bland and tasteless food for weeks and months to get lean, unless you are living an extremely sedentary lifestyle and completely dependent on junk food to survive. When it comes to weight loss, there’s just not one way that will help shed all that extra weight – correct dieting practice, lifestyle changes, exercise and a whole lot of small little things would help you steer to your goal weight. In fact, with the right diet plan and workout routine, you can drop significant pounds without resorting to extreme or unhealthy measures. No, we are not talking about appetite-suppressant powders or fat-cutter pills, instead try these 10 tricks to see weight loss results fast. 1. Try These Fat-Burning Combinations: 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...
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10 Diet Tips To Get Rid of Stubborn Fat

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We tend to store extra fat in different parts of the body – around the organs (visceral fat), under the abdominal muscles, also in the muscles which is intramuscular fat, and most importantly, fat that gets stored right under the skin (subcutaneous fat). Out of all these, subcutaneous fat is considered to be stubborn because it is extremely hard to get rid of such fat. Lipolysis (fat breakdown) and lipid oxidation (burning of fat) takes place at a much slower rate when it comes to stubborn fat. Everyone has certain fat pockets in their body which are hard to get rid of, and in a majority, it’s around the belly, upper arms and thigh area. Some people often have stubborn fat around the chin too which makes it difficult for them to lose their double chin even when they have got rid of all the fat from the rest of their body. We know how frustrating it is when you have lost so many kilograms but those five pounds of stubborn fat doesn’t come off at all. It is quite a task to get rid o...
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Why Do Women Gain Belly Fat in Mid Life?

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Belly fat is a nightmare, not just does it make zipping up your favorite jeans a lot tougher, it also increases one’s risk of developing health issues like cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. For women, after a certain age, it becomes a bit more tough to lose belly fat because drop in hormones encourage storage of fat around the mid section more readily. With considerable drop in estrogen hormone and a dip in metabolism, as one ages, fighting belly fat becomes a battle, especially for women in their 30s and 40s. However, do not feel discouraged and look at women like Shilpa Shetty, Malaika Arora, Kareena Kapoor who are in their 40s and have flat bellies, and realize there’s nothing that a good diet and exercise cannot fix. In this post, we list out reasons why women gain belly fat in mid life and how to flaunt a flat belly by doing the right things. What Makes Losing Belly Fat Difficult For Women As They Age? 1. Hormonal changes (drop in estrogen horm...
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20 Diet Tips To Steal from Bollywood Stars

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If you drool over gym looks of Bollywood stars and wonder how they manage to look fit, svelte, and well toned, we would like to mention that more than gym and workouts, they place a lot of importance on their diet. Bollywood celebs do not do anything very different from us for losing weight and staying fit. Their diet secrets are actually tips that are basic, quite easy to follow and actually fetch good results. In this post, we share with you 20 diet tips to steal from the most fittest Bollywood stars. 1. Deepika Padukone: She does not believe in strict diets. Eating small portions of favorite food is her way of staying slim. She has mentioned in a few interviews that she loves chocolates and cakes, and works out hard in the gym so that she can eat them! She is a teetotaller and this also helps in maintaining the figure in the long run. 2. Anushka Sharma: She avoids junk food totally to keep her figure and skin beautiful. She carries her own lunch for shoots and has simple homema...
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