Contents:
- Medical Video: How to Lose Weight and Get More Energy in 15 Days
- Here's how to start a healthy life while fasting
- 1. Regular exercise
- 2. Avoid eating fried foods, salty foods, and high-sugar foods
- 3. Drink enough water
- 4. Meet the needs of vitamins and minerals
- 5. Stop smoking and drink coffee
Medical Video: How to Lose Weight and Get More Energy in 15 Days
Entering the month of Ramadan, Muslims will undergo a month-long fasting. Surely there are many plans to break the fast together with my dear relatives. Breaking fast together often makes someone eat whatever they want without noticing the nutrients contained. Of course, this is what actually makes the body become unhealthy when fasting. Do you want your body to stay healthy during fasting? Let's do some of these habits so that the body becomes healthier when fasting.
Here's how to start a healthy life while fasting
1. Regular exercise
Fasting is not an obstacle for you to stop exercising. You can keep exercising as usual or start exercising while fasting. Exercise can be a healthy living habit during fasting that you can start.
If when you are fasting just lazing at home and sleeping all day until the time approaching breaking the fast, will make the body more limp. Therefore, even though you are fasting, keep active so that your fasting can run smoothly.
When exercising while fasting, you do not need to force yourself to do heavy training, enough light but do it regularly. You can exercise several hours before breaking the fast or after breaking the fast.
2. Avoid eating fried foods, salty foods, and high-sugar foods
Fried, sweet foods and drinks are like the hallmark of the iftar menu. This food is indeed very delicious to eat when breaking the fast. However, it turns out this food can make your fast the next day more difficult.
Eating high-fat and sugary foods can affect weight. Besides that it can also cause you to become weak and lethargic quickly. Salty food is just as bad, because it can make you more thirsty. Of course this will disrupt your fasting for a whole day.
Therefore, you can start a healthy life while fasting without consuming excessively fatty, salty and sweet foods. Eating these foods can reduce the quality of your fast, so you become less eager to undergo activities on fasting days.
Try combining foods from all major food groups including fruit and vegetables, rice and alternatives, and meat and alternatives. Eating fiber-rich foods during Ramadan is also good because it is digested more slowly than processed foods so you feel full longer.
3. Drink enough water
When fasting, you need to maintain body fluids to stay hydrated. Lack of fluid during fasting can cause you to become weak when fasting.
Make sure you keep drinking eight glasses during fasting during the fasting and evening meal. You can divide it into two cups when breaking the fast, four glasses before going to bed, and two glasses at dawn. Or you can develop it according to your taste, the most important thing is to meet at least eighteen per day when pausa.
The liquids you can consume include syrup, juice and soup. However, water is the best choice for you. You should also reduce the consumption of drinks containing caffeine, such as coffee, tea, and soft drinks. This caffeinated drink has a diuretic effect that can make the body lose more fluid.
4. Meet the needs of vitamins and minerals
During fasting, you can only eat and drink in two times, namely at dawn and breaking the fast. This makes the body experience changes in function, one of which is a decrease in the immune system.
Therefore, you need the right intake of vitamins and minerals so that the body stays strong while fasting. Vitamins and minerals needed during fasting are vitamin C and zinc.
Vitamin C and zinc are needed by the body to help the body adapt to lifestyle changes during fasting. You need to take more vitamin C and zinc which can be started before entering fasting to prepare the body for possible changes.
Vitamin C and zinc both function to strengthen the immune system, so that the body will remain strong and smooth in undergoing fasting.
You can get vitamin C and zinc from various food sources. Fruits and vegetables that have high vitamin C include mangoes, oranges, papaya, and melons, broccoli, cauliflower, and tomatoes. While you can get food sources containing zinc from beef, chicken, spinach, and various kinds of seafood.
Or you can take supplements containing vitamin C and zinc to meet your vitamin and mineral needs.
5. Stop smoking and drink coffee
Living a month of fasting, gives you the opportunity to take a break from bad daily habits, such as smoking and drinking coffee. That way, you can start healthy living habits while fasting without smoking and drinking excessive coffee.
Fasting can help you reduce addiction to cigarettes and coffee or other unhealthy foods. By doing fasting you will "be forced" not to do these things, which can be carried over to later when fasting is over.
