Great Ways to Start Your Day!

The way you spend your morning can add a certain flavor to the rest of your day. Here are some healthy lifestyle habits to incorporate into your morning routine that can leave you better able to handle the stress you experience. Try one or several, and experiment until you find what suites you for a healthy lifestyle.

Morning walk has so many health benefits, the stress management benefits are just gravy! A morning walk can get yo ready for a refreshing and energetic day, helps you sleep better at night, keeps a check on weight and reduces the risk of numerous other health conditions.

Eating a balanced breakfast can balance your blood sugar levels and give you the sustenance needed to handle day to day mental and physical stress. Be sure to have plenty of protein and fruit, not just caffeine and empty calories! Remember, breakfast is the most important meal of the day without which one can be more resilient both mentally and physically! Therefore, do not skip!

Stretch in the shower! The hot water loosens up the muscles and makes it easier to get a good stretch. The act of stretching will help to release stored tension and enable you to start the day feeling more relaxed, at peace, and ready to handle what comes your way!

Sipping a warm cup of Green tea is a soothing activity that will help you prepare for the day ahead and feel nurtured. Green tea is loaded with antioxidants, that keeps up the immune system and maintains healthy weight and helps to cope up with stress and anxiety.

Put on some music and start your day! Music therapy has been shown to reduce stress and have a positive effect on health and mood! Listening to music as you get ready and start your day will create a sense of peace and well being. Music can compliment other healthy lifestyle habits, adding rhythm to your brisk walk, peace to your yoga workouts, leisure to your showers and stimulates your mind as you write!

Drink plenty of water everyday! Drinking at least 3-4 liters of water daily keeps your body hydrated, puts a check on weight, keeps constipation at bay by improving body metabolism, and makes skin look younger and glowing!

Lose Weight The Natural Way!

Lose Weight Naturally!

A Chaotic & unhealthy lifestyle can have a poor impact on our health which may lead to increase in body weight or obesity, heart diseases & strokes, diabetes, hypertension & a weaker immune system. Of these, weight gain is becoming a matter of concern among the people. In the era of commercialization, we find various weight loss pills, anti-cellulite products and expensive fitness gadgets popping up on the internet and television screens, but these can only cause frustration and may prove detrimental to our health. Natural herbal remedies are safe and promising in reducing weight. Let's try some of such formulations for controlling weight in a healthy manner:

• Mix in a glass of lukewarm water, a tsp of honey with ½ tsp lemon juice. Drink it every morning and evening to lose weight.
• Pound a ginger rhizome & boil the same in water. Add to it, ½ tsp lemon juice and 1/4^th tsp black pepper powder. Have it when hot.
• Squeeze a lemon in a glass of bitter gourd juice and have it every morning.
• Having a tomato or two in morning is said to be beneficial in reducing weight.
• Boil about 10 gm of triphala (a combination of equal amount of Amla, Harra & Beheda powder in a glass of water for 10 minutes. Consume it warm in the morning.
• Consuming 2 cups of Green tea is also believed to shed excess fat.
• To keep a check on weight, soak a few leaves of Indian plum/ Jamun overnight. Discard the leaves & drink water in the morning on an empty stomach.
• Take ½ tsp of guggal powder, a tsp of ginger rhizome powder and mix in honey to make it into a paste. Administer it once a day to lose weight.

A balanced diet and any form of exercise plays a vital role in reducing as well as maintaining a normal weight. One should eat a diet good in green vegetables and fresh fruits. Some of the fat burning spices such as black pepper, long pepper, mustard, ginger, cinnamon and cayenne should be added to the meals or used in preparations. Fish like tuna & salmon are high in Lectin, a protein, which helps improve metabolism and aids fat loss. Reduce the intake of salt & carbohydrate rich, high calorie foods (eg. rice, potatoes). Having vegetable soup or eating papaya at dinner time is helpful in reducing weight. Eating a cabbage salad also helps reduce weight as tartaric acid, an ingredient in the vegetable is known to inhibit conversion of dietary sugar to fat. 

Eat Green Vegetables & Fruits

Along with diet, regular exercise is quite beneficial. Brisk walk, skipping a rope, jogging, aerobics, yoga and pranayam (yogic breathing exercises) are among few exercises that can be of help to attain a healthy weight. Also, one should eat slowly as it satisfies hunger with less food, thereby reducing calorie intake. Drink plenty of water (3-4 litres/ day) as it has no calories and reduces hunger. Losing weight isn’t a mysterious process… it’s a matter of burning more calories than we eat.