Practicing clean eating is an effective strategy that would help a good deal in your weight loss journey. Having a balanced diet by including whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and other nutrient-dense ingredients and cutting down on sugar, saturated fat, sodium, and ultra-processed foods would ensure you are engaging in clean eating. Needless to say, the convenience of ordering meals through food-delivery apps is taking a toll on your health and waistline. By opting for fewer restaurant foods and preparing more home-made meals is a method to ensure you are embracing a clean eating lifestyle. The bonus is that you get to save a lot of money in the process! In fact, switching completely to home-cooked can help you lose weight fast and keep it off too (whipping up Dalgona coffee and baking homemade pizza do not count!). Additionally, we list out 5 reasons why home-cooked food can help you lose weight.

1. Because Abs are Made in the Kitchen:

Even fitness experts would agree on this – While exercise and ab workouts help in building and strengthening the core muscles, it’s what you eat and how you manage your calorie intake that largely determines whether those well-developed muscles would become visible beneath a layer of body fat. Only when you lose overall weight by controlling the diet, the layer of fat covering the abs would lift off. So, those washboard abs you dream about day and night, can only be achieved when you have a better control of the kitchen. Once you start cooking up more meals in your kitchen, those ab workouts would seem to be more effective. Also read: “4 Best Rice Options To Enjoy Your Dal Chawal.”

2. Complete Control Over Ingredients:

We need protein, fiber, healthy fats, vitamins, minerals, and so many other nutrients to lose weight and when you prepare your own meals, you can pick and choose weight-loss friendly ingredients and cut out those that can hamper weight loss (sugar, saturated fat for example). With outside food, a high amount of oil added, sodium, sugar, and calorie-dense ingredients would make it difficult to keep a tab on total calorie intake. For weight loss-friendly ingredients, browse the diet plans on the Rati Beauty app.

3. You Can Choose The Quality and Quantity of Cooking Oil:

When cooking at home, you can select the type of cooking oil, this allows you to choose healthier options like olive oil. Also, at home, you can easily limit the amount of oil used (because even olive oil which is considered one of the healthiest has 119 calories per tablespoon!). By using less oil or opting for cooking methods that require minimal oil, you can control the calorie content of your meals. In restaurants, many dishes are prepared with excess amount of cooking oil to increase the flavour of dishes and to appeal to the tastebud of customers.

4. Offers a Better Chance To Portion Control:

There’s more than what meets the eye when it comes to restaurant food, which means, that even though the food portions might look smaller on the plate, the calories would be way much higher (with the amount of oil and other calorie-dense ingredients used). While dining out, since we are paying for our meals, there’s always that pressure to finish what’s on the plate, and consume portions larger than what we need. As we all know by now, we need to be in a calorie deficit to lose weight, which means consuming fewer calories than we are burning. It’s easier to count calories and practice portion control with home-cooked food. Also read: “8 High-Protein Dals and Pulses For Weight Loss.”

5. Ensures Safe Food Handling and Hygiene:

When eating outside food, it’s difficult to guess whether proper hygiene was maintained during preparation. There’s always a risk of contracting food poisoning while consuming food from outside. It can disrupt gut health and hinder weight loss by slowing down metabolism. Food poisoning can also damage the lining of the intestines, affecting the absorption of essential nutrients, leading to nutrient deficiencies, which can impact weight loss.

Summing up, home-cooked meals can help you reach your weight loss goals. And all diet plans on the Rati Beauty diet are all about nutrient-dense home-cooked that result in faster fat burn. If you need help to shed extra pounds, these plans are perfect for you!

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