5 Easy Tips By Celebrity Nutritionist Rujuta Diwekar To Thrive This Festive Season!
With the festive season kicking in full steam, healthy habits and pre-planned diets tend to take a backseat. But then again, we also constantly feel guilty about overeating or eating sweets. We feel awful about taking breaks and not working out. But hey, it’s time to leave all the worrying behind. Celebrity nutritionist, Rujuta Diwekar’s complete guide to eating and indulging in the festive season in her audiobook Eating in the Age of Dieting on Audible offers quite a few tips on how to thrive during this festive season.
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In this fabulous audiobook, she teaches you how to do the festive season in the best way possible. Are you wondering what are some of the beyond-fabulous tips she advises us to follow? Let’s explore some of the essential ones.
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5 Tips By Rujuta Diwekar To Stay Healthy This Festive Season
1. Follow A Sustainable Diet
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When we diet, the whole idea is to get healthier, fitter, look leaner and be happier but sometimes, we just tend to forget the fact that sustainability matters a lot in the case of diets too. Rujuta believes that “Diwali is a good time to figure out if you are on a sustainable diet. If eating a regular Diwali meal amounts to breaking your diet, then it means that your weight loss plans are going to be unsuccessful this time too.” It’s time to let go of these unrealistic diets, instead, go for wholesome diets that teach you to eat without guilt.
2. Curate A Special Diwali Menu
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The healthiest Diwali menu is one that sticks to the basics. Set a plan with homemade Mithai, maybe fresh samosas, one sabzi, one dal, some roti and rice accompanied with chutney, pickle or papad. Making everything at home is a brilliant way to manage your meal. Rujuta exclaimed, “Bring out your traditional silver thali’s or Kansa (metal plates) and have a leisurely sit-down dinner with conversations. Indulge your guests with time and attention rather than an overwhelming variety of dishes, breaking the monotony of heavy and multi-course Diwali meals with a touch of simple sophistication.” This can help you maintain the feeling and the awesome meal.
3. Switch To Doing Surya Namaskars Everyday
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With the festival world, it can be very easy to forget to walk or work out. The festivity might make us feel laid back so, to make up for it, start your day with a light walk and 5 rounds of Surya Namaskars. This can really help you keep up with your fitness routines. Rujuta expressed, “Five rounds of Surya Namaskar will save on travel time to the gym, cost less, leave you feeling fresh and help smoothen the digestive processes after bouts of overeating.” This sounds like a great plan, doesn’t it?
4. Dry Fruits Are A Huge Yes!
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While we all agree that dry fruits are good for our health, when you eat them first thing in the morning or use them as a base for some mithai, they can be heavily advantageous and healthy for your system. Rujuta exclaimed, “dry fruits are an amazing source of amino acids, minerals and phytonutrients. It is a myth that cashew nuts are full of cholesterol. It has zero cholesterol and actually helps regulate it.”
5. Mithai Is Not The Villain
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The alternative to the fear of mithai is learning about their goodness and educating oneself about the basics. Ghee, one of the main components of most Indian sweets, is actually an amazing ingredient. It helps keep the intestines in good shape and ready to take on a load of overeating during Diwali. It is an essential fat that keeps our systems up and going. Having said all this, Rujuta urges “Avoid packaged sweets as they are often the low-grade variety picked up by someone with their bottom line in mind and not keeping your waistline or taste preferences in check. Have homemade sweets.”
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These are just a few tips from the massive bag of wisdom that Rujuta has left for us. For more such tips and tricks to enjoying and stress-free, healthy and authentic festive season tune into her audiobook Eating in the Age of Dieting, on Audible.
