How To Lose WEIGHT With Simple One Pot Recipes? (Results You Can See)

0:00 i think the first key thing is to understand why you need to be active right it is not only about losing weight when you exercise when you work out our bodies are meant to move for example a cheetah is meant to spread a sloth is not right we are meant to move that is why we built the way we are and the more you move the more your blood circulates your hormones correct themselves there are a

0:23 number of things that happen across the body that make you healthier and fitter we want to stay healthy we want to stick to our health goals we work very very hard to get there we want to work out at home we want to feed nourishing meals to our children how are we going to do that joining me today is simran chopra we all know her from instagram she's fit she's fabulous she's had a journey which all

0:53 of you will buy for right from fact to fit and now fabulous and that's how i would describe you thank you so much mansi and it's so nice of you to have me here and i think together we should do something that can really make a difference to everyone watching this and that is the objective of this um i am a lifestyle and transformation coach and i write a lot on instagram writing right now people want things that are more

1:18 actionable and let's do that together uh we can probably start with the problems that people are facing and then we'll address each of them one at a time similar exactly you know because i'm a mom and i know you're a mom as well we're both working we're both running our businesses so you know we know that we really stretch for bandwidth and we know all our readers just like you are extremely stressed for bandwidth so the thing with

1:42 creating a meal plan is one when you know i have only this much supply then you know how to use it if you write it down so you write down every single meal from monday to the next monday breakfast on waking if that's let's say you all drink tea on waking or whatever then if you do breakfast mid morning snack lunch evening dinner you write all these down and then when you write it down you get

2:08 more ideas one you know exactly how much to prepare before how much time you need what resources you need and like she said snacks is something everyone struggles with so some of the great ones that you can do are if you're makhana at home i don't recommend buying the packet once because they have too much sodium too much salt too much flavoring in them just plain makhana at home if you have the tsukawa corn kernels which you get sukha khan if you

2:32 have that at home you can make variety of popcorns you can make lots of different flavors of makhana if you have khakra at home you can just eat one khakra right with a cup of tea otherwise if you have if you have onion tomato instead of doing you know um a pepper a masala popper you can do masala khakra if you want to right if you have fruits that's a great option but you might not at the moment nuts have to be a very

2:56 small amount but even is a great option especially if you have kids dahi is a great option a glass of milk is a great option if you are someone who can drink milk so there are many things that you can look at but just grabbing whatever you see is a terrible idea because right now the one thing that we know is that good health is the one parameter that you require to stay safest right and you

3:21 want that for yourself you want that for your children you want that for your parents you want that for everyone so right now all you do is nourish your body give it what it needs to function at optimal and its best and it functions the best when you use real food okay so that means nothing that comes not something that is not highly processed so if you're doing nuts have plain nuts at home take fully and roast

3:44 it and have which is fine instead of a packet of salted nuts or caramel nuts or wasabi nuts you don't want that it has too much processed stuff in it it takes away all the goodness of the actual nuts right stick to the basics and the snack time can be a really fun time as well especially if you have kids even like a date is great these are things that don't spoil if you have them in your fridge if

4:07 you have nut butters even a slice of bread with nut butter or a roti with nut butter is a great option for a child it has a lot of things to keep them going and kids need carbs as well and you keep them full instead of handing a child or even a normal person a packet of chips for instance right but it works really well if you just write it down and you can discuss it with the family and say hey what do

4:29 you think you want to have for snack on this day okay popcorn which flavor should we try our tandoori flavor all you need to do is if you have tandoori masala at home mix it into the popcorn that's it it's as simple as that to create variety to create interest with very few things the most important bit that people feel uh which is a big thing about you know people have learned to segregate carbs proteins fat into their

4:51 meals when when they don't understand that you know a kidney is a perfect balance of protein and carbs or a dosa idli is a perfect balance of those so i think one is to understand what are the kind of meals that both of us are actually cooking right now which have been easier not only on the effort on our stomachs but also on our hands because we're doing all the dishes and all of that so and i think it's great

5:16 that we have a punjabi and a gujarati in the house because then people will get like a whole fusion of recipes i think that's incredible what we have typically been cooking is you know and i'm going to share my top five that i've been doing on repeat and you can perhaps uh share some of yours as well so what we've been doing is you know we've stopped been stocking up on docile batter there was moong dal palak for lunch today

5:41 there's chole for dinner uh and again you know we're doing one subsy if it's available if it's not available then no subsidy for lunch but it's essentially doing a lot of pulses like we said we create a savory pancake that is what we've been doing we are creating a lot of uh ladoos for the children at the moment so it could be you know in the form of good papri which lasts you know which is essentially the

6:04 key and jaggery for the kids and we add in a little bit of gaunt in it so you know their immunity is supported we do a lot of salt color do all of these videos are all there on our youtube channel so people can actually see we're creating a lot of community booster drinks which are essentially avla gurkha pani padina ginger creating that and stalking on that so instead of kids reaching out for just about anything i mean we don't

6:29 first of all have any aerated or fizzy drinks in the house at all uh but but when you have right things like i think what zimbran said earlier so might as well keep it very handy keep it inside so children will see it and they'll want to have it uh so we're doing a lot of that what we're also doing is we're doing some bit of oats because oats becomes very very easy uh whenever you get the

6:53 chance to have a bread try and have uh you know add in either the veggies or sometimes it's just plain toast but guys the essential part will be to make sure that we make our kids understand that it's not a feat it's not peace time but it's to eat right time and not go exotic with the meals that you're cooking because you'll drive both your family and yourself crazy over it right sidran i think very true um the one thing to they're one of

7:19 the things that i wrote down one is when you go up on pulses a lot if you go up on dals a lot many people not used to and the digestive system is not used to consuming so much you might you might face a lot of flatulence you might fail bloating if you do the best thing to do is that all your pulses especially your dogs chana chola anyway we soak overnight start soaking your dolls as

7:40 well it reduces the phytic acid becomes easier for you to digest okay so that's the first thing the second is about the proteins and fats for example on a normal day if i was doing a khichdi i have my carbs i have my proteins but i would have added a large chunk of vegetables to that for more fiber which is not there now so the thing to remember here is that right now this is the better way to eat

8:03 but in every meal you must go higher on the protein if you're a vegetarian the protein sources already have carbs in them which means that you need to go back on the carbs a bit so i would say if you're eating dal and chow the dal is more and the chower is less carbs are usually used when you need a lot of energy because they give you more blood sugar in your you have more blood sugar levels which helps for example

8:26 that's why kids need more they're running around all the time kids don't sit still like us right but we are not moving as much now which means you don't need as much all right we are used to eating a lot that is not ideal but right now so i would say protein in every meal is essential if you're a vegetarian also you can get that from any dairy source any dal any legumes like chana chola etc have that

8:49 in everywhere that has to be there otherwise if it's just a subsidy and rice then there should be a curd or something because protein is the building blocks of life you need to add that in coming to kids i i don't have separate menus for my son because i want him to understand that all food is same you don't get anything separate you eat what we eat um so he does that as well i i don't give him too many like if you

9:14 have the ladles and all you can but you have to limit the quantity they have to still realize that it's not free for all like mathi said so even for my son there is a time so i have mango from over a week two weeks or a week or when it's just ripening and he wanted to eat it in the morning after his morning snack and i said no you can't just because you're sitting at home and roam around just because you

9:34 feel like eating it you can't disclose into snack time otherwise what happens is your child will be mom i want my one little bit i want a little bit they'll be eating little little little little and then you're like oh you're not eating lunch you have to make sure that one their digestive system works like us it you need to give the child or anybody's body time to digest before you eat again which is why don't munch through the day

9:57 have actual timings eight o'clock is breakfast i don't know if you want ring a bell and get everyone to come in for breakfast but you have to have proper timings even for children right and then make sure that obviously their snacks are really nutritious but i think making them understand that this is the time it's the best time if you have a picky eater because you're limited with food you can't indulge them so this is a

10:19 great time to say you know this is all there is to eat right now this is all that i can cook because i'm cooking for so many people that's all it is you just have to eat it and you will find that you'll really do well with that i think i want to quickly sum up on uh you know home workouts and how people can really get that momentum going because anyways we're doing a lot of household chores a

10:40 lot of physical activity that we're otherwise not very used to doing uh so i would say again let's split this up between a few of the apps that i would recommend for workouts that you would recommend and let's see how we can try and ensure that people get the most out of it uh one of my favorite go-to apps would be the nike training club it's free which is great you have um you have workouts by durations if you want a five

11:05 minute workout a 15 minute or 20 minutes seven minutes 30 minutes 45 minutes which body part you want to exercise it kind of whether you have equipment you don't have equipment it kind of gives you a custom workout basis that all you need to do is have willpower and a mat and your body to show up so that's one of my absolute favorites if you're looking at uh another one it could be the strava app which is really good uh

11:31 another one which works really well is um you know which which i've got which is i actually follow their youtube channel but now they also have you know which was dr jose which is to uh kind of have this which is called the has fit app again uh they have body body weight workout so you know which is very functional in nature which you could do uh you can also do like you know just use home towels you can do a pilates

11:58 workout you can do a lot of yoga workouts we share a whole bunch of yoga apps as well so i think if you really have uh you know if you just if you just have download any of these it will become supremely helpful and we have a whole bunch of uh apps on apps exercises by yasmine karachi bala by coach me some of them which i have done which is like a gliding disc workout and so many other uh experts who

12:25 actually shown exercise which will all available on the kickstart press website and and uh and on our youtube channel so go ahead and access that because you know all of it is free for you right now thank you mansi so um i'm not gonna recommend any app per se because one i'm already putting up workouts on my instagram i have these programs that you can do and the thing with um that i find that people try to ignore apps if it

12:52 works for you that is great if it does not work for you a lot of people are also in a weight category that you should not do many workouts there are a lot of restrictions so that is something to take into consideration the easiest thing right now no one has any motivation you have no willpower you have enough going on and you are stressed so i'm going to tell you what to start off with all you

13:14 need to do is set a time in the morning and do a 10 minute walk that's it 10 minutes okay you can do the walk inside the house around the dining table you can stand in one place and walk to get in some activity then if you're feeling energized you can go to my instagram pick one of the free workouts i've built it so that there is no wait for you to get injured they are very simple highly effective doesn't

13:35 matter if you're a beginner or you're advanced they will work for you because of the intensity and the way it's built but i think the first key thing is to understand why you need to be active right it is not only about losing weight when you exercise when you work out our bodies are meant to move for example a cheetah is meant to spread a sloth is not right we are meant to move that is why

13:58 we are built the way we are and the more you move the more your blood circulates your hormones correct themselves there are a number of things that happen across the body that make you healthier and fitter all right this is just activity which means that you do 30 minutes of anything that you want if 30 minutes sounds too much start with 10. uh on my programs we are right now doing live workouts where i have to like work

14:22 out live now and people do it with me i am doing live walking which uh which means that i have to do a lot of this as well but people are doing it with me and it motivates them to do it um you need to just find something that you're willing to do and the best is to get your spouse your child and you to do it together walk around the house if it has to be 10 minutes jogging up and down the

14:42 house jogging in front of the tv it doesn't matter but all you need to do is move and that is what is important i think if you can get that sorted you are absolutely fine once you build in the routine you will get it done yeah i also think what really works for me and i agree with syndrome that people may be quite demotivated to work right now work out right now but what typically works with me is uh one having a company to

15:04 work out and second is if i've decided what the previous night what i'm gonna work out tomorrow right if i know my routine the next day it typically helps me a lot and like she rightly said that get your kids involved so i do a lot of yoga and typically when we do a lot of inversions in yoga which may seem very complicated when you go on to our instagram feed and see like a lot of convoluted poses

15:27 but it's very very easy of course when if you have been practicing it um but even simple poses which which you can uh you know do it with your children if you actually look it up online you will see that when you invert your body your blood circulation is faster and therefore the immunity goes up and like smooth said the idea is to keep moving right uh and and i think one of the things that we both agree on is to just

15:54 get the entire house in this together talk to your children make sure they are moving with you they are helping you in all your household chores uh everybody is under a lockdown it's not only you um so i think if you ensure that you are very well nourished very well fueled um both physically mentally and emotionally you're going to really lead the way much better so i would completely agree with her and to end this webinar what we

16:20 typically do is talk about again things that have helped both of us stay sharp stay focused stay focused on our business on our families and ourselves right simran that's true uh just one thing coming back to the inversions i just want to say that if someone is trying to get pregnant and you don't know if you are pregnant or if you are pregnant you probably shouldn't do it uh it's a restriction when you are pregnant only so just be wary of that um things

16:47 that i am doing right now is i run the programs uh where we do so my programs are built that it should work at any point in any situation in your life doesn't matter if you are traveling living in our hostel or right now you're stuck at home with no resources so we have a lot going on there we have 30 minute home workouts we're supporting everyone on it we're people from across the globe so now we've released new meal

17:09 plans and diets that take into account that if you have nothing at home what you do we've already curated meal plans we've curated recipes everything that has gone out so it's taking up a lot of my time and my team's time to do this but the idea is to make sure that everybody comes together in it and my personal experience of dealing with it is what is helping everyone else deal with it as well i think um so that

17:34 is one to stay sane it has to be i've created a chore chart i have a daily chore chart where things are allocated there are responsibilities for my husband responsibilities for my child for me so all the workload is distributed and we also know what time is what so my son knows what time he has reading what time he has writing so we have a whole schedule for him and he also knows what time is screen time which is nearly

17:56 never um so all that is already so that is what's keeping i think my husband and me sane as well especially because there's so many of us in the same space at the moment i think that makes a huge difference and if you're an entrepreneur i think just supporting your employees right now is the biggest thing that you can do um we're working on that across the board first of all i only hire women returning to the workforce so

18:20 even more uh so i have making sure that i support them i think that is keeping me more sane and keeping me going because i know i have to make sure that they are okay as well right absolutely what is what has typically uh worked for me as well is and i think we're both the same case but we also have a lot of uh moms who are back into the workforce which really helps especially for kids

18:41 top press because that's what our live website is all about right getting kids uh moving getting families together uh screen time is always together it's never unsupervised because there are some fabulous fabulous shows and workshops and movies that we're watching um so again we've got a whole bunch of lists on that on the on the website even your diys and stuff that the kids want to do we've segregated that by age onto the platform so you guys can

19:09 access that as well um the one thing that we typically start and end our day as a family for us uh is practicing meditation um because i think keeping strong mentally uh is extremely important here and even if it's just two minutes of listening to great meditative music or talking to your kids about gratitude and telling them that you know today i'm thankful for what um is is something that's very very important thank you so much mansi for having me i hope it was

19:41 good for you uh you can find me on instagram at simrun.chokra i'm always spending with you i'm the only one on facebook instagram everywhere with you for some reason and i think it's very important to remember stay safe stay healthy absolutely so thank you so much guys and it's been an absolute pleasure