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How To Ensure No Weight Gain During Diwali Festivities

Darpan News Desk IANS, 18 Oct, 2017 12:34 PM
    Overeating, over drinking or going completely sleepless creates toxicity for your mind and body, and hence the need to fall back upon a ‘detox diet post Diwali. Staying in balance during the festivities will ensure you don't end up needing a post Diwali detox, say experts.
     
    Munmun Ganeriwal, Nutritionist, Fitness Consultant and founder of ‘Yuktahaar' and Nutritionist and health coach Tapasya Mundra dole out tips to remain in shape even after the festive season.
     
    * Start your day with a teaspoon of gulkand (or a teaspoonful of gulkand mixed in milk). Rich in probiotic bacteria, gulkand works at enhancing your gut flora and thereby curb acidity, constipation, bloating and make your belly look flatter & thinner.
     
    * In the middle of all the preparations, cooking, shopping and socialising, make time to eat. Starving during the day and binging at dinner represents the classical fasting and feasting behaviour. Eating every 2-3 hours will make sure you don't end up feeling bloated, acidic, dull or tired. In short, you don't end up needing a post-Diwali detox.
     
    * Sweets 
     
    * Stick to the traditional homemade sweets, laddoos, halwas, barfis etc. Made at home the traditional way, they are nutrient dense and regulate our blood sugars. Result of which is that you don't crave and reach out for a bar of chocolate loaded with harmful preservatives and commercial sugars. 
     
    * Anything in excess is a bad idea. Distribute the sweets among your domestic help, watchman, driver and other people around you. This will reduce your chances of over indulging in them.
     
     
    * Fried Food 
     
    * Since the homemade namkeens like mathris, wadas, chaklis etc are deep fried in ghee or filtered oils like groundnut, sesame etc., they provide for essential fatty acids which work at lowering the overall GI of the food item. Their blood sugar regulating effect will keep you satiated so that you do not end up binge eating later.
     
    * Avoid the packaged/processed ones since they are loaded with trans fats and high GI carbs, both of which together make for a lethal combination.
     
    * Alcohol 
     
    * If drinking till the crack of dawn makes your Diwali night come alive, ensure you sip on it slow. "Mindful drinking" will ensure you do not end up over drinking.
     
    * Also ensure that you are not on an empty stomach. Eat a good wholesome meal before leaving home like poha, upma, cheese toast, khakra ghee etc.
     
     
    * Do not mix your drinks.
     
    * Eat deep fried snacks/starters or good fats like cheese along with your drinks as it will help to form a thin lining in the stomach to digest the alcohol easily and prevent you from having a bad hangover the next day.
     
    * Drink enough water throughout the day and between your drinks.

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