- Watch your diet carefully and eliminate all the empty calories from your diet, as the foods that provide empty calories are very low in other essential nutrients required for good health.
- Focus on lean fibrous carbohydrates from fresh fruits and vegetables, whole cereals, grains and its products, whole pulses, sprouts, beans and legumes. These foods are not only rich in many vital nutrients but are also low in total fat.
- Avoid the consumption of refined carbohydrates and simple sugars altogether as this is one of the major reasons for weight gain around the tummy.
- Avoid fried foods, fatty foods, junk foods, processed foods, canned foods, refined foods, sweets, chocolates, and bakery foods like cakes, pastries, cookies; sweetened artificial drinks and juices, carbonated beverages, sodas and colas.
- Include lean good quality protein in your diet in the form of lean cuts of poultry, lean meat, egg whites, fish and fat free or low fat dairy products. However avoid the consumption of organ meats, shell fish and egg yolks as they are high in cholesterol and saturated fats.
- Your cooking method is very important. Use a non stick pan preferably to cook your vegetables and poultry. For instance fish is a very healthy food and has natural healthy fatty acids – omega 3 fatty acids. But if you fry the fish remember the frying destroys all the healthy fatty acids and other nutrients. So instead use other healthy methods like baking, steaming, boiling or grilling instead of deep frying or shallow frying with lots of oil.
- Besides these dietary changes, exercise is equally important to lose weight. Focus on strengthening exercises especially for your midsection like pelvic tilts, crunches and scissor kicks.
Weight Loss Tips
Tips to Reduce Tummy
- Dont eat junk food. Drink a LOT of water - helps to flush the system.
- Eat small meals every few hours thoughout the day - dont skip meals. Slows your metabolism.
- Short of surgery, there is no simple process to quickly remove the fat. Reducing it requires time, patience and work.
- When you exercise, make sure your movements are smooth and controlled.
- Do your best to not arch your back during your abdominal workout. Arching your back can strain the muscles in your lower back and increase the length of time it will take to lose the fat.
- Do some crunches when you would normally be lying around and doing something passive (like watching television or listening to music). Crunches are one of the best exercises you can do to work your abdominal muscle area.
- Make sure that you are eating a healthy diet. All of the exercise in the world won't do you any good if you aren't eating healthy as well. Healthy foods have fewer calories and are easier for your body to digest.
- Stay away from saturated fats and foods containing high fructose corn syrup. Saturated fat and high fructose corn syrup are two of the leading reasons why people have problems with belly fat in the first place.
- Maintain proper posture. By sitting up straight you will be able to reduce the appearance of your stomach fat. Proper posture will also help you when you work out and you'll find that you have less muscle aches!
Exercise
- Lye down on a flat surface and lift both your legs and start doing cycling upwards. You will get little pain in your thighs and this exercise helps you to reduce your tummy fat as well as thighs.
- Lye down on the floor near your cot and put both the legs on the cot and lift your head up and touch your knees with your forehead. The hands should be left free without holding anything. This is one of the fastest method to reduce the tummy fat.
Tips to Cure Scars
- Soak 4 almonds overnight, peel the skin and grind it to a paste. Mix rose water with it and apply it on the face to clear pimple scars. Almonds can be taken internally as it is rich in vitamin E and nourishes our skin from within.
- Apply olive oil regularly on the face and massage lightly. The scars will fade off in course of time.
- Mix radish juice with a little gram flour and buttermilk and apply to the face .Wash it off after 20 minutes to clear scars left by pimples. Do it regularly.
- Dab honey on the spot and cover it with a bandage to get rid of blemish overnight.
- Drink carrot juice regularly with honey for a month to clear marks, scars and blemishes.
- Tomato pulp can be applied everyday on the face and washed off after half an hour to get rid of scars from pimples.
- Apply a face pack of 1/2 tsp of orange peel powder, 1/2 tsp of fuller's earth and 1/4 tsp of mint powder (or grinded paste of 5-6 fresh mint leaves) once or twice a week to get rid of scars naturally. Keep the pack for 15-20 minutes and wash it off.
- Raw potato juice applied daily cures skin blemishes. Raw Potato juice can also be mixed with fuller's earth (multani mitti ) and applied to get rid of scars and blemishes naturally.
- Mix Dried orange peel powder with curd and use it as a face pack to clear blemishes and scars naturally.
- You can use Aloe Vera based cream or fresh Aloe Vera gel to get rid of pores due to pimple.
Tips to Cure Prickly Heat
- Mix pure sandalwood paste with milk and apply .
- Apply water of edible palm fruit (nongu ) to cure prickly heat.
- Natural yogurt can be applied to cure prickly heat
- Peel the skin of edible palm fruit and grind it to a paste and apply it. It is an effective home remedy for prickly heat.
Remedy for Blackheads
Grind ripe papaya until creamy. Mix it with 1/4 tsp of gram flour or besan and apply to the face leaving the area around the eyes. Wash it off with cool water after 15 minutes .
Tips to cure Body Odor
- Mix juice of one lemon in a bucket of water and bathe in that water.
- Wear cotton clothes as they absorb perspiration better.
- Keep your underarms free of hair, as hair collects perspiration and might cause offensive odor.