9 Days Navaratri Diet Plan with Weight Loss Tips

Navratri is a festival celebrated across India, to worship supreme hindu goddess Devi Parvati.  It is celebrated for 9 days in different styles. Various cultural and traditional activities, delicious delicacies are the best parts of celebration.  Cultural activities include the famous dandiya, navratri plays, garba etc. The various delicacies include spices, sweets, snacks, special dishes, beverages.


Many people during festive seasons get invaded with uncontrolled food habits and overeating. This consequently gives rise to excess weight gain and health disorders. The common reasons of weight gain are avoiding healthy alternatives of eating food, skipping micro-nutrient rich foods like fruits and vegetables, outside foods.

The best way to prevent overeating and weight regain, is to have a well planned diet with vegetables, small frequent meals, hydrating fluids, healthy snacks, home food and low fat  products etc.


Recommended diet vegetables are broccoli, spinach, ginger, cauliflower etc. Frequent meals keep up the energy. Good hydrating fluids are coconut water, lime water and vegetable juices. Hydration also helps maintaining energy while fasting for navratri. It is advised to opt for healthy snacks like saboodana, sweet potatoes, baked and boiled potatoes instead of pakodas, puris, manchurians etc. Cooking at home controls intake of ingredients such as fatty spices, oil and other ingredients. Suggested low fat products are low fat milk, low fat cheese, yogurt and likewise.

Baked sweet potato with ajwain sweets, grated cheese, paprika is a good choice as one of the healthy navratri dishes. Green soup with spinach, broccoli, ginger, garlic, coriander leaves is a nice option for beverages.



Diet Plan By Expert Nutritionist:


The 9-day navratri diet plan by TruWeight suggests food intake for early morning, breakfast, mid-morning, lunch time, evening snacks, dinner and bedtime.


Morning foods:

Some of the early morning foods include almonds, dates,  mixed nuts with healthy fruits. Sabudani khichdi, milk smoothies, veg smoothies, papaya shakes, mixed fruit smoothies along rajgira ladoo are advised for breakfast. Various healthy beverages such as lime juice, buttermilk, coconut water are ideal for mid morning.

Lunch:

Lunch meal is good to be had with sama rice or barnyard rice, kuttu ka cheela, sago khichdi, vegetables with curd, cucumber  raita, samak palao and  other dishes. Roasted groundnuts, green tea, maakhna, groundnut chikki can make it to healthy evening snacks.

Dinner:

Now, the most important dinner should ideally include paneer sabji, kuttu ki roti, singhara roti, spinach pumpkin, palak ki sabji, kuttu aloo stuffed roti,  paneer soup with vegetables. Milk with elaichi or milk with turmeric, is good before going to bed.

Physical Activities To Control Weight:


Festive seasons have the advantage of keeping people indulged in physical activities while playing dandiya, arranging for the festival, handling events and cultural activities. So it is good to keep busy with such ways that involve physical activities.

Other things that you should follow along with maintaining proper balanced diet, are as followed: drink sufficient water, avoid junk food, avoid food with more salt, sugar and oil, exercise, consultation with expert nutritionists about fasting, avoid starving. These tips along with diet, will definitely add to your efforts towards making this navratri healthier and better.

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