The changing season calls for several other changes including your biological clock too. All these changes can make your weight loss journey augean or effortful. Research indicates that your genes get affected by the biological body clock change. Weight and hormones are managed by some of these genes. Thus, they can make your weight-loss routine more backbreaking.
Everyone in winter puts on some extra kilos as the season is very tempting. We all carve for greasy, sweet, and hot items. Items like halwa, sweet dishes, pakoras, and other buttery items. These items keep us warm and thus make us feel calm.
Fortunately, healthy food also gives us warmth and thuq ws we can switch from unhealthy food to healthy food. Winter is a season of fresh veggies, fruits, and spices.
Free food items like oats, barley, brown rice, and other whole-grain items are highly nutritious. They are packed with Vitamin B and magnesium, also carbohydrates which provide you energy.
These items also aid in the functioning of adrenaline and the thyroid.
Also, dry fruit items like almonds, peanuts, apricots, raisins, and walnuts, etc. provide you energy and warmth too. They come with several other advantages too.
Few recipes to promote weight loss
Chikki full of crunch and munch
Method
Heat a pan (non-stick), add a few sesame seeds, almonds, and flax seeds. Stir it and roast it and let it turn light yellow. Turn off the knob and let it cool down. Heat the same pan and add some ghee to it. Add simmer and jaggery in it and stir it for some time over a slow flame.
Spirit the jaggery comes in liquid form (caramelizes) and then it becomes thick and forms a ball. Add a drop in the cold water and turn off the flame.
Mix both roasted mix and also stir properly. When it becomes cold then partition the mixture into 10 equal pieces. Shape each portion into the way you want to like round or oval. You can use molds or cookie cutters.
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Then your chikki is ready, let it come to room temperature. Store it in an air-tight container.
Ingredients
2-3 tbsp clarified butter (Ghee)
¼ cup sesame seeds
¼ cup roasted flax seeds
⅓ cup grated jaggery
½ cup powdered almonds
Khichri (Bajra)
Method
This is a facile recipe yet healthy to make.
Grind coarsely the moong dal and the bajra in a mixer. Mix the mixture with 2 ½ cups of water and a bit of salt. Mix it in the pressure cooker and cook it on medium flame. Wait till 3-4 whistles arrive to turn off the flame.
Use a pan and then add little oil, add hing and cumin seeds in it. Pour that mixture all over your khichdi and combine well. You can eat this with yogurt or kadhi.
Ingredients
Soak ½ cup of Bajra (Pearl Millet) for more than 8 hours and drain.
1 tbsp of oil (whichever you prefer)
½ cup of cleaned and drained split yellow gram (moong dal)
1-1 ½ tsp jeera
¼ – ½ turmeric powder (Haldi)
½ Hing
Add salt according to your taste
Summing Up
These are some recipes which will help you to reduce your weight. At the same time, it will also keep your body warm and healthy. The recipes mentioned above are nutritious. Stay tuned to this page to get more such amazing write-ups related to food.
