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Burn fat with a healthy Breakfast

Burn fat with a healthy Breakfast     We all know the old saying “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper”  ,but how many of us know that heating a healthy breakfast is the best option for  a healthy life and also the best way to lose weight! Breakfast is the most easily avoided and the most overlooked solution than all other fat burning tips combined. Eating breakfast  is the most important meal of the day and many of the busy moms  tend to skip this meal for a variety of reasons. However, doing so will only work against your body's ability to lose fat.  What happens when you skip break fast  Skipping breakfast will only send the message to your body that you're starving - you haven't had food in the last 6-8 hours. This leads your body to SLOW your metabolism for survival purposes. You essentially are choosing to start your day in fat storage mode.  And if you do not start your day with a supportive breakfast, it is only natural that by the time lunch rolls around - You are starving!.  You  may be compelled to eat more because of the cravings. To make matters worse, skipping breakfast also leads to eating more later in the day - a big "dinner". Eating more calories during the last meal of the day, when your metabolism is naturally slower  leads your body to store those calories as fat.  In fact, studies show that people who skip breakfast and eat fewer times during the day tend to be heavier than people who eat a healthy breakfast and eat four or five times a day. If you skip meals, you tend to feel hungrier later on and you will eat more than you normally would.  How to get the best benefits of breakfast  Eat within an hour of waking.Have your morning cup of tea/coffee but by having breakfast it will provide you with the energy you need to get through your day. The more energy you have, the more active you'll be and the more active you are, the more calories you burn.  Favorite Busy Mom Breakfast: Cereals and oats  which are  easy to prepare,eat and are full of nutrients is a convenient choice. But don't overlook the traditional choice of breakfasts like the idly,dosa, upma,paratha etc.which we have been having since childhood.Just go easy on the oil quantity and the type of chutney made. The idea is to eat healthy and not a heavy meal.

Physical Fitness For Good Health

అరగంట వ్యాయామంతో ఆరోగ్యం ఈ రోజుల్లో ప్రతి ఒక్కరు నాజూగ్గా మారడానికి చాలా కష్టపడుతున్నారు. అవును కదా! ఎందుకు అంతలా కష్టపడుతున్నారు. అరే మీకు తెలిదా? నాజూగ్గా మారడానికి రోజుకి అరగంట వ్యాయామం చాలని ఈ మధ్య ఓ సర్వేలో తేలింది. ఓ అధ్యయన సంస్థ లావుగా వున్న కొంత మందిని ఎంపిక చేసుకొని, సగం మందిని రోజు అరగంట క్రమం తప్పకుండ వ్యాయామం చేయమన్నారు. మిగతా సగం మందిని గంట పాటు వ్యాయామం చెయ్యమన్నారు. ఇలా వీరిని 3 నెలల తరువాత కెలొరీలు, హార్ట్ బీట్, బరువు లెక్కిస్తే అరగంట వ్యాయామం చేసిన వాళ్ళ బరువు తగ్గినట్టు ఆరోగ్యంగా ఉన్నట్టు తేలింది. ఇలా ప్రతిరోజు వ్యాయామం చేయడం వలన శరీర బరువును తగ్గించడమే కాకుండా శరీర ఆకృతిని కూడా పెంచుకోవచ్చు. వయస్సు పై బడిన వారికి కూడా దీని వలన చాల ప్రశాంతత లభిస్తుంది. పిల్లలలో ఏకాగ్రత పెంచడానికి వ్యాయామం చాలా బాగా తోడ్పడుతుంది. అందుకే ప్రతి రోజు అరగంట వ్యాయామం చాలని మన శాస్త్రవేత్తలు చెపుతున్నారు.   - యం. స్వప్న

Best Body Fitness Techniques

Best Body Fitness Techniques 1. Fix your posture: It will help your body work more efficiently, keep your muscles properly aligned, relieve aches and pains, and help you look 5 pounds slimmer. Pull those shoulders back and sit/stand up straight! 2. Plan a workout: Scheduling time for your workout will make you much more likely to succeed at actually doing the workout. You may not be able to fit in a workout for another few hours, but at the very least, put that workout on your calendar. 3. Do a plank: A full body exercise that can challenge you anywhere.Find a clean spot and start planking. What do you know? It can help with that posture, too. 4. Eat regularly:Try to break your meals up in a way that doesn’t leave you super hungry by the point of the next meal. Controlling your blood sugar and energy levels through regular meals and snacks keeps smart eating habits going strong. 5. Go for a walk: It doesn’t have to be an hour long session, but simply getting up and moving around regularly throughout your day has been linked to better overall health. Instead of sitting in your desk chair all day, take a few 5-10 minute walking breaks sporadically. Head out around the neighborhood when you get home. Basically, every bit of movement adds up. Move more. Even little bits at a time. 6. Stand instead of sit: Whenever you can, stand up instead of sitting down. It uses more energy. It can help with your posture. It all goes back to little changes adding up over time. 7. Take some deep breaths: Stress is a killer. It can deter your best laid plans. It messes with your hormones. It’s just not cool. Use whatever stress coping technique you have in your arsenal – such as stopping to take some deep breaths and count to ten. 8. Go to bed earlier: Sleep impacts so many things – including hunger and stress levels. Make sure you get enough rest.  

5-Diet Plan To Get Flat Stomach

5-Diet Plan To Get Flat Stomach Want to beat the bloat and reveal a flat, toned stomach? Follow this 5-day diet plan A flat tum in 5 days.Use these tips along with our five-day eating plan for a flatter, healthier tummy, fast. Eat three meals a day, evenly spaced. Be especially careful not to overeat at night, as the food can sit in your stomach and ferment, causing gas and bloating. Watch your portion size as large meals can also lead to fermentation, gas and bloating. Serve your meals on a side plate to regulate portions. Eat fruit for breakfast only, not as a dessert with meals later in the day to avoid fermentation.Sit down, eat slowly and really chew your food to improve digestion. Avoid fizzy drinks, including sparkling water. Drink still water with meals and avoid caffeine, which could interrupt digestion. Your beat the bloat menu: DAY 1 Breakfast: Fruity yoghurt crunch.In a tall glass, layer spoonfuls of probiotic yoghurt, sliced watermelon and blueberries and sunflower and flaked almonds. Drizzle with raw honey. Lunch: Smoked salmon sandwich on rye.Spread 2 thin slices of rye bread with mustard, add 2 slices of smoked salmon, a handful of fresh rocket and a squeeze of lemon juice. Dinner: Fig and feta tart.Make a ‘pastry’ by mixing together 25g grated carrot, ½ tablespoon of chickpea flour, 10g grated parmesan cheese, 1 egg and a pinch of paprika. Press into a baking tin and bake for 20 minutes until crisp. Top with 1 slice prosciutto, 1 fig, quartered, 10g crumbled feta cheese and a little salt and pepper. Bake again for 20 minutes and serve with steamed broccoli. DAY 2 Breakfast: Shredded Wheat with banana.1 Shredded Wheat with 120ml skimmed milk, topped with 1 tablespoon of probiotic yoghurt, 1 sliced banana and a drizzle of raw honey. Lunch: Brown rice sushi.Mix together 75g cooked warm brown sushi rice with 20ml rice vinegar and ½ tablespoon of Xylitol sweetener. Place on a sheet of nori seaweed and top with slices of red pepper and avocado. Roll up and serve with soya sauce. Dinner: Baked sweet potato with baked beans.Top 1 medium baked sweet potato with 1 small pot or can of low-sugar baked beans and 1 tablespoon of probiotic yoghurt. DAY 3 Breakfast: Quinoa porridge.Simmer 50g quinoa and 150ml skimmed milk in a saucepan for 5-10 minutes until soft. Add ½ apple, peeled, cored and grated, 10g flame raisins, a pinch of cinnamon and a drizzle of raw honey. Lunch: Moroccan chickpea balls with beetroot dip.Soften ¼ chopped onion and ½ garlic clove in a saucepan. Put in a food processor with 100g tinned, drained chickpeas, 20g wholemeal breadcrumbs, 1 beaten egg, salt and pepper. Process to form a dough. Roll into balls and fry in a non-stick saucepan for 8-10 minutes. Serve with 100g probiotic yoghurt mixed with 100g cooked, chopped beetroot. Dinner: Glazed vegetables with feta cheese On a baking sheet, arrange a selection of sliced carrots, courgettes, vine tomatoes and red onion. Season, drizzle with 2 tablespoons of raw honey and add 50g crumbled feta. Bake for 30-50 minutes until veggies are soft.   DAY 4 Breakfast: Yoghurt with kiwi and berries.Top 1 small tub of probiotic yoghurt with ½ sliced kiwi fruit and a handful of mixed berries. Drizzle with 1 tablespoon of raw honey. Lunch:  Broad bean soup:Soften ½ chopped onion and ½ chopped celery stick in a little extra virgin olive oil in a saucepan. Add 250ml veggie stock, 25g brown rice, 100g frozen broad beans, a sprig of thyme, salt and pepper. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes until the rice is cooked. Top with chopped mint. Dinner: Japanese tuna parcels with wilted greens.Place a 150g tuna fillet in the centre of a piece of baking paper. Top with 1 teaspoon of grated, chopped spring onion and ½ chopped celery stick. Make a dressing with soya sauce and a dash of dry sherry. Drizzle over the fish, top with sesame seeds and fold the baking paper into a parcel. Bake for 10-15 minutes. Serve with brown rice or quinoa. DAY 5 Breakfast: Coconut French toast with warm berry compote.Mix together 1 egg and 15ml skimmed milk. Dip 1 slice of wholemeal bread into the mix and sprinkle with shredded coconut. Fry until golden in a pan spritzed with olive oil cooking spray. Warm 50g mixed berries in a saucepan and serve with the toast. Lunch: Lentil soup with wholemeal roll.Heat ½ carton of store-bought lentil soup and serve with 1 small wholemeal roll. Dinner: Courgette tagliatelle.Soften ¼ sliced red pepper, 40g frozen peas and ¼ sliced fennel bulb in a saucepan. Add 40ml white wine and simmer for 5 minutes. Using a vegetable peeler, slice 1 courgette into ribbons. Boil in salted water for 2 minutes, drain and add to the veggies. Top with chopped parsley and pine nuts.

Swimming Benefits your Health And Fitness

Swimming Benefits your Health And Fitness Most people know that swimming helps you to improve heart rate and blood flow and maintain a healthy weight.Swimming not only helps with general physical fitness, but it encompasses a host of other benefits such as muscle toning, breath control, and meditative qualities. With so many peripheral benefits in one workout. Here are the little known benefits of swimming: 1. You can work out longer with less pain and strain on your body. As water supports the body’s weight, people with injuries, suffering from obesity, or at an advanced age can easily swim for longer periods of time without stress being applied to their joints and bones.swimming is one of the few sports that does not cause stress to the skeletal system. 2. It tones your muscles. Water is 12 times denser than air, making swimming more effective at toning your muscles than any other form of aerobic exercise on land. Working out or swimming in water provides a certain degree of water resistance, which acts very much like weights do at the gym.It allows you to control the degree of pressure and helps prevent the possibility of injuring yourself through the use of heavy weights. 3. Swimming improves flexibility. swimming allows you to utilize most of the muscles in your body.Swimming also helps to stretch out and elongate your entire body as you reach further out with every stroke.With water support, you can balance all those tricky yoga poses you’ve been meaning to try. 4. You work on breathing. The moist air makes it much easier to breathe, particularly if you suffer from asthma. Studies show that swimming regularly can improve asthma symptoms, even up to a year after swimmers have stopped their swimming routine. But even if you’re not suffering from a breathing problem, swimming can also help increase your lung volume and force you to learn proper breathing techniques. 5. It helps your mental health, too. If the idea of pounding around a track and crunching weights stresses you out, stress no more. Plus, the rhythmic strokes and sound of water make swimming much more relaxing. It’s been shown that swimming produces the same “relaxation responses” as yoga.Not only does swimming increase relaxation chemicals, it is also highly conducive to meditation.

BODY AFTER BABY - 1

BODY AFTER BABY - 1 The Birth of a Child is an amazing event in the life of a Mother. With loads of happiness and the bundle of joy comes the weight gain and also the difficulty in getting back to Pre-pregnancy figure. While shredding those extra pounds looks impossible, taking a safe, slow practical approach with exercise and good nutrition can help restore the shape you remember!! Set a Fitness Goal: As a new mom, you'll want to consult the doctor to ensure that you're ready to enter into a workout routine. once the doctor gives you a green signal, the first step is to access your energy levels and how is your ability to do certain exercises and the amount of time you can spend everyday, at the same hour while still taking care of the baby. Track your progress: It is essential that you measure your success and that you are committed to continuing the regime. Try the following methods: 1) A typical bathroom scale: set a date to measure your progress. Measure your weight on the same day every week in the morning before eating or drinking. 2) Take measurements too: A weighing scale wont tell you if there is any change in the body areas. measure the biceps, hips, tummy areas to notice the change in numbers. Plan your Week: Grab a calender and schedule your fitness sessions with times that are most likely to be possible. one day you may be busy, other day you may have time to exercise, one day you get only 30mins, other day your baby might wake up within 5mins or you may feel weak. 1) Have a backup if your babies timings vary every week. During those days when you want to spend more time with your baby, plan exercises that you both can do, squats on an exercise ball with the baby in your lap. Take the stroller out for a brisk walk with your child enjoying a sleep or the vague colors. 2) Have a support system: Let family members encourage you, even if suddenly you feel disinterested, or lazy. Some more to share!!!!   - Prathyusha Talluri More articles from this author..... Exercise and your Money