Diwali fun with Nutrition!

Diwali is a festival of Lights & Sweets as well!

Sweets or desserts are an inevitable part of our festival, are loaded with extra calories. We do get many mouth-watering sweets in the market ranging from milk products to others that contain unhealthy ingredients.

Hence, one should be careful in choosing such kinds of stuff from the market. Do not forget to follow before and after festival guidelines (could be an extra workout, consuming low-calorie foods, etc.) to be fit that helps to maintain balanced body weight.

Here are some of the tips which would help to fix your goals without being altered.

Plan your Meal:

Start your day with having healthy nuts, seeds (sunflower seeds, pumpkin and melon seeds, flax seeds, etc.), and raisins that are good sources of fat, micro-nutrients, etc., or prepare milkshakes or smoothies out of these to give a kick to the day.

The inclusion of fiber in the form of green leafy vegetables, fruits, pulses, and vegetables also holds good that includes interesting salad variations, rasam, raita, kosambri, usli, soup are good options.

Jaggery over Sugar:

As it is known, that sugar is called white poison, and hence it is a wise idea to replace it with jaggery or honey. It is a great idea to control your calorie intake. These could be healthy laddus like dry fruits-flax seeds (dates act as a natural sweetener), oats-coconut, sesame seeds-ground nuts; low-fat kheer or payasam, un-sweetened lassi, turmeric milk and many more. Choose jaggery pellets or jaggery powder as a convenient option.

Limit Deep-fried stuffs:

Practice healthy cooking options like boiling, steaming, grilling, baking, and shallow frying options to cut down the calorie intake. It could be a steaming of vada, shallow the vegetable cutlets, or bake a potato or banana flitters. Prefer a bowl of cut fruits with healthy seeds and nuts and vegetable salad with herb mix to improve digestion and burn calories.

Go for Home-made healthy sweets:

Home-made dishes have a unique taste and add on joys of good health. The dishes prepared outside have preservatives and additives, which are not safe for our health. Avoid preparing dishes out of maida or refined flour. Use wheat flour, multigrain, ragi flour to prepare Diwali special halwa. Include healthy snacks like roasted chana, roasted makhana, khakras, theplas, protein crackers.

Spice it up:

Our cooking is in-complete without adding spices to the dishes we prepare. Cinnamon, pepper, cardamom, ginger, turmeric, clove, nutmeg, hing or asafoetida, saffron, etc., acts as immunity boosters and slowdowns metabolism.

Go for an extra walk:

Diwali is a time for a family to get-together and spends time with each other, share happiness, and tend to consume more food ending up with loads of calories. Hence, it is equally to kick off extra calories consumed by regular exercise. 

Don’t give up your exercise routine!

Happy Diwali! Stay Fit and Healthy..