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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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9 Simple Dietary Changes That Boost Weight Loss

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Sometimes all you need to kickstart your weight loss journey is to make tiny dietary changes, and that would set the stage for success. It’s not necessary to stay hungry or starve to burn excess fat, just remember to eat right. In fact, on the Speed Slim challenge on Rati Beauty, you get to lose inches as well burn fat from your problem areas such as thighs, waist, and back. Weight loss is a process but if you find counting every single calorie exhausting, make these 9 simple dietary changes that boost weight. Read on: 1. Eat only When Hungry, Not Because It’s Meal Time: It’s essential to practice mindful eating to lose weight or not, and listening to huger cues that indicate physiological hunger rather than because it’s meal time or because you are stressed out, bored, anxious or angry will help you a great deal in cutting down unnecessary calories. We often turn to comfort foods when we are tired, bored, stressed out, or anxious, and that’s why, we would suggest you to refrain fro...
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7 Weight Loss Mistakes Keeping you Overweight

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Don’t tell us you have tried every fad diet there can ever be and still find it difficult to shake off the excess pounds. We understand the struggle – it can be quite frustrating when you cannot zero in what the real issue is when no amount of dieting or exercise is taking you nearer to your goal weight. At the outset, we would like to mention that there could be certain sneaky weight loss mistakes that you could be making that can hamper your weight loss efforts. These mistakes add up – most of them keep you overweight despite your hard work. So, let’s check out these 7 weight loss mistakes that are keeping you overweight one by one. 1. Focusing on Food Deprivation instead of Proper Nourishment: In a quest to go as low as possible, calorie-wise, you may ignore the fact that nutrients are important for the body to function – even for fat burning to happen. Vitamin D, calcium, chromium, magnesium, iron, protein, fiber, and trace minerals like chromium are all important in the weight l...
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7 Foods That Help Curb Intense Cravings

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Most of the times, the most common reason why people fail to follow through their weight loss program is their intense cravings for unhealthy and junk food. These cravings can slide you off the weight loss wagon. Intense foods cravings can induce overeating and increase the calorie count by a great measure. As we all know by now, maintaining a calorie deficit is essential to shed extra fat stored in the body. People report that they experience intense cravings with crash dieting or extreme food deprivation when they are on a weight loss diet. Even in the absence of food deprivation – factors such as stress, boredom, anxiety, hormonal imbalance, blood sugar imbalance, addiction to hyperpalatable foods can all trigger cravings. Rather than spending lots of money synthetic appetite suppressants (in powder/pill form), there are certain natural foods that can strike them down really well. The amazing thing is that all these foods are nutrient dense and meet the energy demand of the body; ex...
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Can Soaked Figs Boost Weight Loss?

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There are many superfoods that do not get their due importance compared to other over-hyped foods like chia seeds and blueberries, and “fig” is one of them. Fig, also called “anjeer” in Hindi, is a nutrient-dense fruit loaded with vitamins, minerals, fiber, antioxidants, fiber and healthy fats that is affordable and easily available throughout the year, whether in fresh or dry form. Soaked figs are thought to be more beneficial than fresh variety, particularly when trying to lose weight. So, let’s find out if there’s any substance behind these beliefs? Starting with calories, there are approximately 50 calories in a single dried fig and 100 gm of fresh figs have 100 calories. The best thing about figs is that you can eat the flesh, fruit, and the seeds as well. As we have mentioned above, fig is a nutrient powerhouse with vitamins and minerals like calcium, iron, potassium, zinc, copper, manganese, magnesium. Figs have been used in traditional medicine for its anti-inflammatory and ...
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6 Reasons you Stopped Losing Weight

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There’s nothing more disappointing than when your weight loss journey comes to a screeching halt after just a few weeks on it and you can no longer see the numbers drop steeply as before, even though there have been no major changes to the diet or exercise routine. It might be baffling, but let’s say that the honeymoon period is now over, and you may need to employ more effective strategies in order to get over the plateau. It’s that point where contrary to your expectations, the body switches to a fat-conservation mode because with weight loss, the body becomes efficient at functioning at lower calories. Also, if you lose some muscle along with fat, the metabolism dips further (more muscles means more calories get torched). These are some basic theories why you have stopped losing weight after a certain point, but there are more reasons that you should know and take steps to overcome those. We will go over them one by one: 1. Becoming Complacent After Losing Some Weight: If you have...
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5 Reasons you are Still Overeating

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Eating less does not always translate to weight loss but overeating will most definitely translate to weight gain in the future. Most of us are confused how we cannot find self control, muster will power, and put an end to binge eating, and go on a guilt trip once overeating episode is over. But where will power fails, discipline slays. Somebody rightly said “discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” Overeating and sedentary lifestyle can spell death knell for your weight loss journey, and if you cannot get into a calorie deficit because of overeating issues, it’s time to weed out reasons that drive you to eat more and more food in the absence of physiological hunger pangs. Let’s go over them one by one. 1. Starving Through the day and Saving All Calories for the End of the Day: Starving the whole day in the name of dieting and then hoarding all the calories and spending it all at dinner time will definitely need to overeating. Avoid food deprivation and banking the...
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White Bread vs Brown Bread – Which One is Better

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Bread and jam, bread and eggs, sandwiches these are some of the staple breakfast options the world over. Experts agree that a good breakfast can help you kickstart the day in the right way by providing you energy, boosting metabolism, and may actually help burn calories through the day. In fact, people who eat a healthy breakfast actually end up eating fewer calories through the day. Picking up a loaf of bread, buttering up a few slices, we all agree bread is a convenient option, especially for busy bees who do not have time to prepare elaborate breakfast and rely on grab-and-go bites in the morning rush hour. And how many calories can a few slices of bread have? Does not matter if it’s white, brown or any other color. But when you are looking at breakfast that nourishes – wanna find out which bread fares better? Let’s find out: You have every right to know why your butter deserves a better companion than white bread: Why White Bread is Not a Healthy Breakfast Option? White brea...
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6 Sugar Substitutes To Make Diwali Sweets

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Diwali is finally here! The festival of lights is also the festival of sweets, and we consider exchanging of treats and sweets as a means to spread cheer and happiness, and celebrate the essence of Diwali. And that means even the most calorie conscious and iron-willed dieters out there cannot excuse themselves out of mouthing a few ladoos and extra bites of incredibly delectable kaju katlis. But there’s one main ingredient that goes into the making of Diwali sweets that people trying to lose weight are most worried about – sugar! Health and weight loss experts unanimously agree that eliminating refined sugar from  the diet can be a game-changer if you are trying to lose weight and improve overall health as well. In fact, white sugar is labeled as “white poison” because it increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, inflammation, and obesity. Regular consumption of sugar also has a negative impact on liver and gut health. Giving up sugar is thought to be an effective way to lose a few ex...
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Can We Eat Chocolate While Trying To Lose Weight?

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Who can melt your heart in moments, make you go weak in the knees, trigger emotions of love and passion, and someone you can say never “no” to – it’s not your college or office crush – it’s chocolate! Men and women agree that there’s nothing that a bar of chocolate cannot fix and by no means is it an exaggeration. But chocolate is considered a guilty pleasure and a complete no-no when trying to lose weight. On the other hand, there’s a lot of buzz about how “all calories are equal” and you can have every food out there but in moderation. This kind of a theory can sabotage your weight loss goals as well as health. All calories are not equal and you cannot have “bad and unhealthy” foods in “moderation.” So, does chocolate come under the “can have in moderation” or “completely stay away” category? Also answering every chocolate lover’s question – can we eat chocolate while trying to lose weight? So, here we go: Why Eating Chocolate Everyday is Not Good? The problem with most chocolates...
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4 Ways To Avoid Weight Gain During Durga Pooja

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The biggest cultural festival of Bengal and bengalis is here. The festive mood, the spirit, the energy has reached a feverish pitch not only in the state but the world over where “poojo” is celebrated with much passion and grandeur. Especially, in Bengal, the mood is palpable where Durga pooja is not only a religious festival, it’s also a cultural and social festival where family and friends get together, spread positivity, revel in the spirit of dhak and dhunuchi, and spread joy all around. And of course, feasting is a major part of the festivities. In fact, pandal hopping and feasting are two inseparable factors of Durga pooja. The state transforms itself into a food lover’s paradise with pandals serving delicious bhog comprising of khichuri, payesh, labra, mishti, and so much more. In fact, the best time to visit West Bengal is during Durga Puja to experience the rich culture, heritage, frenzy, and of course great food of the state. Bhog is served at pandals with the food having all...
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