Although if you'd have seen me, I'd be among the last you'd want to listen to about healthy stuff. But here it is:
- Lots of water. => you feel full and no longer fall for tasty food.
- Bananas, apples, guava, orangers, cucumber, etc all taste good(the latter ones more so with a little bit of 'kala namak'), quick and easy to eat.
- Get raw flour (that which does not have the 'chilka' removed... i can't remember the term for it) and get your rotis made with it.
- For 3-4 days, make sure you eat no more than a single roti/its equivalent at anytime and fix the times on which eat everyday.. This is to get your stomach get used to taking this as full mark
(it is basically the key point)
- Have different types of(non-junk) food made every day to keep it interesting, keeping the frequency of rice related dishes low. Vegetables would be preferable but, really it doesn't matter much as long as you have typical local dishes made. Unless its something too obvious like a pound of butter/halwa
, they're all fine. Its almost always the amount and not the type with most people.
- Avoiding junk food/snacks is easier if you don't keep them with you. Make sure you don't have those in your drawers/fridge. If you ever do get these, get no more than that you'll use right then. Have extra of the regular food in fridge(and heat it in oven to eat) so it is easier to avoid ordering junk food. So
basically, having something healty quick at hand is usefull to avoid unhealhy stuff.
- Fried stuff like the vegetables mentioned is not that unhealthy as it is made out to be. It is still way too healthy compared to junkfood/snacks. Unless ofcourse it is 'oil in vegetables' rather than 'vegetables in oil'. Really tasty dishes can be made with vegetables(heck my favourite dish is a vegetable: kaddoo-daal(chana type)). If none knows how to make them taste good, a lot of online recipes/video tutorials can help.
If you think doing exercises will burn the food you eat then do know it does so only a little tiny bit(unless you're doing something like olympic or pro level). The amount of food you take is The biggest control factor. Brisk walk is pretty much no more dangerous than everyday routine. Arms only exercises have nothing to do with hernia at all. Btw do get professional opinion on that hernia. You can't avoid it and surgery is the only way to put it back in its place. + Sometimes it does get dangerous and an emergency surgery might be required. So, non emergency surgery is better than one required in emergency. (btw pushups do make it easier for hernia to progress. But so do laughing, coughing, lifting weights and so many other things. So it pretty much is going to progess)
