Feast Without Feeling Guilty

It's the season of baubles and bubbly, of sparkle and sanctity, of dance and delicacies, of weaves and weddings!

- Naini Setalvad

I am sure you're excited about the celebration that accompanies weddings, but with all the delicious food around, are you scared that you will compromise your health? Worry not! I will show you how to stay fit and still devour all the mouth-watering food:

Cancel the crash diet: I can't emphasise enough how often people make the grave mistake of crash dieting before a wedding. They think that if they compensate by starving themselves before, they can gorge at the wedding. But the body doesn't work that way. Starving yourself makes your hunger hormones go into a tizzy. When you do begin to eat, the deprived body will keep wanting to eat more and more as the hunger feedback mechanism is broken. You will end up sick to the stomach and unable to enjoy the event.

Hydrate: In the midst of hair, make-up, dressing up for the event, one often forgets to drink water, resulting in your being parched at the end. of the day. Like me, if you too will be dancing all night, you may end up dehydrated and mistake it for hunger. It is best to keep sipping on water throughout the day and having unsweetened lemonade whenever you can, to make up for the loss of electrolytes. Get a head start by drinking a couple of glasses first thing in the morning when you wake up.