Here is how you can lose weight in ramadan. Ramzan or Ramadan’s month can be a great be great way to shed maximum weight off your body.

Ramadan, the month of blessing is already here in 2017 and the whole Muslim community is set to enjoy the divine atmosphere. Ramadan helps the world to understand the state of people who strive for the meals all year. The moral logic behind the fasting is to make your body comfortable with less food and water and to join the people who don’t have enough resources to enjoy the luxurious meals you usually relish. Help is the fundamental essence of Ramadan, the 9th month of Muslim calendar.

The routine of fasting during Ramadan involves Suhur before fajr prayer and after staying hungry for all day, Iftar at the Maghrib prayer. You can eat at ease between Iftar and Suhur but not between suhur and iftar. Tricky? Read it again.

Now, as fasting already involves so much distance from food, why not to use this religious opportunity to stay healthy and lose weight that you are gaining for months?

Ramadan is not only an eminent period to lose weight but it also helps us to avoid a number of chronic diseases.

A research article published in 2013 by some university students in Iran analyzed the effects of Ramadan at various cardiovascular diseases and alteration in body’s composition during the Ramadan fasting. They concluded that Ramadan doesn’t dehydrate the patients of diabetes type 2, heart stroke and blood pressure but manages all these things in the royal and divine way. They offer the evidence in the support of Ramadan fasting helping the treatment of asthma, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and renal colic. They further reported the 10 percent damage inclination not only in the health hazards of patients previously having the history of CVD but also observed the potential shrinkage of waistline due to the fasting in Ramadan as they carried their experiment on 44 people having at least one cardiovascular disease.

Another research published at NCBI also provided the positive results of their analysis of Ramadan fasting on general health. They described how 10 to 40 days fasting can help you lose fats and can shield you from diseases such as diabetes, heart stroke, bold pressure, insulin sensitivity, blood lipid and biomarkers of oxidative stress. They further provided a deeper review of how fasts lower the body mass, LDL cholesterol and LDL/HDL-C ratio in the body.

Not only this, but there is a vast amount of research available on how one month of Ramadan can improve your health in all possible ways. Trusting these evidence, let’s have a detailed look at how Ramadan fasting can help you lose weight.

There is a common belief that we can’t lose weight during Ramadan because we usually eat much at Suhur and Iftar to beat the starvation we bear all day. But that’s quite exaggerated. It is still slightly true because we eat a lot of fat in the form of fried chicken, fried potatoes, heavy desserts and particularly sugary drinks that fill us with empty calories and we end up adding a lot of body mass, unknowingly. But, balanced and managed diet with light physical activity can help you maintain the weight you’re already carrying or to lose 5-10 pounds depending upon your effort.

What you can do before Ramadan for your weight losing plan

One or two weeks before Ramadan, everybody gets into grocery and fills the refrigerator with a lot of unhealthy food because for many householders, Ramadan is all about having the best meals of the year including all of your favourite food items ranging from oily fried stuff to sugar packed dessert bites. And to some extent, these ladies do it right because when you are staying hungry for 14-16 hours (depending on the region) you deserve a better feast at the end of the day at Iftar. But if fitness and weight loss is your goal, the entire fatty grocery list should never be your thing. Therefore, if you already have a plan to lose weight in Ramadan, stay focused while picking the food for Ramadan.

We are here to help you for how to lose weight with a planned guide. And for quick words before going down, keep these things in mind:

• Fill your cart with right things while shopping for Ramadan feasts. And these right things include items with more protein and fiber and fewer fats and carbs. Drop even the thought of coffee, tea or any other such beverage that can add unnecessary calories to your diet.
• Plan your menu for all 30 days with healthy bites and a lot of beverages say water (skip all the sugary drinks).
• Ask your gym trainer to guide yours for light home based workouts during Ramadan.
• Ramadan 2017 is already here, but it is not late yet. Alter your plans now and then; proceed for what we have to say for Suhoor and Iftar plan in particular for your weight losing journey.

REMINDER: What can make you gain weight during Ramadan?

The quick answer is, thinking that you have stayed hungry for 14-16 hours and now at Iftar, you deserve to satisfy your eating motives more than you should is what makes you chubbier than you already are. Honestly, you should never cross the limit of your healthy dinners you’ve been taking in the other months of the year because that’s all your body needs.

Even when you’ve come forward with only 3-4 fasts, your body starts adapting the new eating routine and never demands the 4 folds of the needed calorie. Not understanding the nature of your own body and heading for all the meal covering your untimely snacks of off-Ramadan days make you gain more weight than you lose.

So friends, don’t fool yourselves with the starving hours of Ramadan and keep your calorie intake down.

Yes, limiting the calorie to the healthy level should be your ultimate goal to lose weight in Ramadan. As research reveals that to lose 10 pounds in one off-Ramadan week you need to lower the calorie intake by 500-1000. Same is with the Ramadan days. Just lower 500-1000 calories from your daily calorie intake.

Don’t worry, deep down in this article, you will find that you have better options to lower even more calories in Ramadan healthily than in off-Ramadan day that can help you lose weight.

Now, you might have been thinking that where does this extensive preface lead?

Does it worth to strive to lose weight during Ramadan or is it mere a verbalization?

Here is your answer;

Ramadan offers you a great opportunity to get habitual of intermittent fasting that is the talk of the town nowadays. If you can trust that forced fasting to lose weight, think how beneficial will be the organic fasting with a huge divine aura.

You have 30 days of fasting in which you will be having fewer hours to eat and more hours to worship Allah by staying away from materialistic pleasures for the sake of the Lord. A little effort that you might put to cut the fats from your body will lead you to a huge weight loss and the rest trick will be done with your dedication.

Dedication?

Yes, it is all about the dedication you put forward to utilize this religious opportunity to manage the diet for the greater good of losing weight. Whether you gain weight, maintain it at the same level or lose it by 5, 10 or even 15 pounds in these holy 30 days all depends upon your very own efforts.

Here is a quick guide to help you what to eat, how much to eat and what to avoid in order to lose weight in Ramadan. Rest is up to what you want to do for your fitness and healthy life.

Suhoor

Suhur, the beautiful before dawn stint that captures the depths of sanctity with the religious feel for the whole universe. Suhur is the time of acknowledgement for creative people, the time of praises for saints and the time of sleep for disbelievers. It is you who choose what you are.

In Ramadan, the Suhoor are not silent like rest of the year. People celebrate the time with luscious crispy bites of roasted dough (Asian cuisine) and buttermilk and let the fast begin with a great amusement. But if you’re to become a slim diva, these lavish and foodie celebrations aren’t for you.

What you should eat for Suhur

A lot of people believe that stuffing your mouth with all the things available at the time of Suhur will keep them away from hunger or thirst during the fasting hours. Forget it now.

No matter how much you eat or how much you drink, it will never get stored, because sadly, you’re not a camel. Keep your meal simple as your regular breakfast and alter the menu healthily for straight 30 days. That will help you to eat the same healthy food even after the Ramadan, mark it.

Choose the food items which are full or proteins and fibers that will keep you full for longer will get digest slowly. Proteins and fibers further help you store more energy for the daytime activities and keep you away from hunger pangs.

Take eggs in Suhur

Eggs are the eminent source of whole proteins coupled with numerous beneficial nutrients and minerals that boost up your metabolism, enhance your energy level and keep you away from food at least for 6-7 hours. The rest you can manage with another diet, eh?

There is a huge dietary research available supporting that egg makes the healthiest breakfast carrying only 76 calories. Think how you can twist these 76 calories with other healthy food such as vegetables and fruits to come up with finest 300 calories breakfast? Well, eggs further manage your blood sugar and cholesterol level too that keep you away from many chronic illnesses. Fair enough with 76 calorie diets?

Take vegetables cooked in olive oil

Besides egg, vegetables are the great source of whole proteins and fibers that can make your stomach less food during the day. Why? Because fibers and whole proteins take relatively more time in digestion and offer a huge bunch of nutrients to blood to be absorbed from the digestive tract.  And if these healthy vegetables such as broccoli, cabbage, carrot and cauliflower etc. are cooked in the olive oil, you can forget about if you are fasting during the day (At a positive note). Cook a reasonable bunch of these cruciferous vegetables into 3 tablespoons of olive oil and enjoy the nutritive bites at suhur.

You can alter the recipes and vegetables as per your choice for the 30 days menu. Adding lean meat such as chicken breasts and salmon (boiled or grilled, never fried) can also be a good choice for filling up your hunger at the time before the dawn spell.

Now, have plenty of water

You will need a good hydration level to stay active during the fasting hours. So, fill up with a lot of water in the middle of your suhur meal. Synchronizing the water with the healthy diet full of proteins and fibers can help you stay energetic during the whole day. Water doesn’t only keep you hydrated but also hits your whole body functioning to get normalized during the fasting hours and will help the use of your nutrients in a healthy way. All of these things combine to help you lose weight only if you remember to not to stuff yourself with fried bread roles and fatty buttermilk in suhur.

Yogurt is also a good choice

To avoid the thirst, you can go for some dairy products which happen to be really effective in this essence. Going for skimmed products with skimmed milk will be helpful in avoiding a lot of fats consumption for your body. Generally, dairy products including yogurt and milk, in particular, are the gigantic source of nutrients, minerals such as iron, calcium and vitamins and a lot of other things required for a healthy well-being. From nourishing the bones to better digestion, these dairy products are offering their helping hand to you. And for the weight loss, taking these products at suhoor can markedly decrease the level of hunger pangs during the fast.

Reminder: Again, keep in mind that exceeding your bites from your normal routine breakfast can hit your body heart with a lot of unwanted fats. Don’t fool your hypothalamus (the part of the brain which controls hunger and thirst) with a lot of unnecessary calories and live healthy during the day.

Briefly, you can take anything for your suhoor in all 30 days that keep your nutrition at the healthy level. Eating eggs, bread (not the white bread), lean meat including chicken, salmon etc. fresh juice, milk, Greek yogurt, nuts, whole grains, fruits such as strawberry, avocado, watermelon (in summer as now in 2017), vegetables such as broccoli, spinach, carrots, cucumber, cabbage and cauliflower dressed with healthy amount of olive oil can help you stay fit and lose weight during Ramadan by limiting your calorie intake. Eating a finely cooked omelette with onion and some of the above-mentioned vegetables can seal the deal of a healthy suhur meal.

REMINDER: Don’t forget your ultimate goal of reducing calorie intake at any point of your weight losing journey.

All of these things are the ones which keep the glycemic index impact at the minimum level and help you gain zero fat during Ramadan that in turn help you burn more calories than you are taking in.

Keep your before-dawn breakfast simple with fewer calories, nutritive, oil-free and healthy and enjoy the perks of being alive in the Ramadan of 2017.

Like all ventures, there are certain do’s and don’t’s. As we have talked about what to do in suhoor, let’s take a look at what not to do at suhoor.

Things you should avoid at suhoor

Following the routine breakfast at suhoor, you should always remember to avoid excessive fat intake. Keep you lower-the-calorie-intake goal in focus and avoid even looking at the things that exceed your calorie intake from normal 2500 to 3000.

What in particular can you skip at suhoor?

Just don’t go for oily parathas (Asian Cuisine) and processed food? Out of question. Fried stuff such as fried chicken, nuggets, fries or any junk food, how can you even think of them at the time of Suhur?

Say straight NO to sugary drinks, black coffee, tea or any other caffeinated beverage that put you in the whirlpool of unhealthy or say empty calories (calories which offer zero nutrition).

If you are taking yogurt, buttermilk (lassi) or plain milk, try to go for skimmed milk that reduces the fatty effect of dairy products and boost up the direct provision of other nutrients and minerals that not only satisfy your thirst but also help your bones stay strong and digestion smooth.

Furthermore, focusing on food and coupling it with tea while neglecting water can slam you hard with unbearable craving during the fasting hours. It is true that while taking tea or coffee, we usually ignore the accurate water intake for suhur, but water is important not only for your hydration and survival during the fasting hours but also for your overall well-being.

Shortly, fats, carbs, extra calories, processed food and coffee is all that you should avoid in suhoor.

Taking whole meals with whole grain containing proteins (as mentioned above), fibers, fewer carbs and less fat intake can help you lose weight now, in the Ramadan of 2017.

What you can give to your children at suhu if they are fasting

In Islam, fasts are obligatory for all who are above the age of 14. And it is healthy and important if children start fasting from such a young age. That will keep them fit and help them lose weight during their course of life along with development of other moral features such as kindness, helping nature, charity and habit of praying regularly.

For Suhoor, all the adults can take the recommended things to stay healthy during the fasting hours but the body functioning of kids is not that established, comparatively. Therefore, you should offer them what they love and what contains healthy nutrients to beat the struggle of the whole of the summer day.

Offering the eggs particularly in the form of their favorite omelets with some cheese, bread (not the refined white bread), 1-2 dates, and a glass of milk with 1 teaspoon of honey can seal the deal for you. You can also offer them their favorite yogurt smoothies or some fruits as well but whole meal is great option to reserve the energy. These choices contain healthy level of proteins, vitamin B, healthy carbs and fats that can offer your children enough energy to spend the fasting hours happily.

The prevalence of obesity in children is also relatively high and managing their diet from the initial level can do the trick.

Do you need any workout after Suhur to lose weight in Ramadan?

Well, not really. You have 14-16 hours before you to spend without eating or drinking. Therefore, workout right after Suhur or even hours after Suhur will never be a good choice. The whole of your body including your each cell, each muscle and each tissue requires energy to survive and you can’t just use that energy in the workout to lose weight.

But there is one thing that you can do between suhur and iftar that will help you lose weight.

Stay active.

Yes, most of people who usually have vacations in this season of 2017, spend their days sleeping and get up quite near to iftar. That doesn’t only keep you away from you religious obligations but also make you accumulate more fats. Fast is not about sleeping, it is about helping people, offering prayers and seeking forgiveness from Allah and you are blessed with everything you ask for in this holy month, only if you know it’s worth.

So, nature has already put forward a message of staying active in Ramadan. Get up, offer your prayers, read Quran, help the needy, do your home chores, help your kids or mother and don’t just lay and wait for the Maghrib adhan.

REMINDER: Weight loss in not only an action, it is an attitude that you carry not only for the whole of the day but the whole of your life.

You are eating controlled diet and you are going to lose weight. No, it is not that plain until you intentionally dedicate yourself to a fit and healthy life. That can help you lose weight in Ramadan and in off-Ramadan days as well.

Now, you’re done with suhur having a healthy diet with a lot of water to lose weight and you have spent all of your days with productive activities. Let’s jump to the iftar, the moment Allah loves you the most as He says, the smell of your mouth at the moment of iftar when you’ve stayed hungry only to make Him happy, He listens you the most and never rejects your prayer.

Let’s have a look at what you can feast upon at these blessed moments.

IFTAR-The moments of blessings and closure

Religion is what put you at ease, what hardens your soul is never a religious obligation. And for Ramadan, it is the softest, nourishing and full of sanctifications having a delightful pre-dawn time of suhoor and full of happiness moment of iftar.

After making you realize of how your brothers and sister in the countries like Syria are starving to death, Ramadan offers you some feasty hours of Iftar, to sum up your courage to offer your fellows a helping hand.

As for what to eat at iftar to lose weight in Ramadan, there is again a misconception of eating enough as per lunch and dinner combined. That’s wrong.

As you did for suhur, never cross your limit of casual dinner bites at iftar. For detailed and clear guide you can follow these instructions backed with African and Asian research.

Break the fast with dates

Make dates the very first thing you eat after Adhan. 1 date for one sitting is enough to fill you with a healthy amount of proteins and fibers. Dates are full of sodium and calories, so the one date is a healthy recommendation.

Drinks which are weight loss friendly for Iftar

After eating a date, rush for water to accommodate the dehydration. At that moment, you might feel like only water will be enough to beat the heat of the summer, but you need energy too. However, water will fill much of your hunger gaps and will automatically help you eat less in general.

Further, you can take processed sugar-free drinks such as shakes, lemon water, or plain skimmed milk, the best among all. Date, water and milk will cover up a great bunch of energy you need. For further taste, you can also try:

Apricot juice

Mint Lemonade

Tamarind Juice

Iced Tea (Herbal one)

Licorice juice

Food for Iftar

Now, come to the major meal portion of the iftar that should be super healthy carrying fewer calories, carbs and fats and more of the proteins and fibers. I hope after gulping some good beverages, these salads and fine dishes will not boost your appetite much.

Still, we have come up with some healthy dishes that you can try in less time by facing less heat in the kitchen.

Lemon pepper chicken

You can make 8 servings of this healthy and full of nutrition dish in less than 30 minutes and it will be offering you 559.00 Kcal of energy and 29.00 proteins. Munching chicken, pasta, vegetable oil, pepper, salt, lemon, cooking cream, ricotta, garlic and cheese (optional, better skip) lemon chicken pepper will stuff you with taste and delight altogether and can help you to check how to lose weight.

Chickpea salad

Salads are best to beat the summer’s temperature and to gain nutrition from light things. Brew the leftover chicken from your refrigerator with some mangoes and have some nourishing bites to lose weight in Ramadan.

Swiss chard Lentil Soup

To pull the lost energy back, soups are also in the competition to help you lose weight in Ramadan 2017. This Swiss recipe of the soup is full of vitamins K, magnesium, iron and a lot of fibers that makes it nutritive among all other options.

Quinoa cakes over arugula and fig salad

Baking the mixture of quinoa, breadcrumbs, shallots, salt and olive oil and synchronizing it with the salad of arugula, figs, berries, tomatoes and lemon can offer your taste buds an enormous enchantment for coming hours until suhur.

The best weight losing recipe in Ramadan!

Lebanese Chicken Tawook

An easy to make the dish to hit the Iftar dastar-khu-wan is Lebanese chicken tawook. Coupling the juicy and flavoured lean chicken with full of magnesium garlic sauce is a titanic offer after beverages at Iftar and lose weight in Ramadan.

Just watch your teeth after having a delighted feast upon it!

Tomato Olive COD

Fish is highly recommended for weight loss as they are tasty, full of proteins and energy and easy to cook. A complete package!

Mixing the basil, tomatoes, olive oil, oregano, COD fillets and with apple cider vinegar will do the trick for this 15-minute recipe.

Healthy and weight loss friendly for Iftar!

Wholesome Plate

Grab your favorite burger recipe (the light and healthy one) and duo it with avocado, tomatoes and other vegetables. The best option for one of your iftar is here.

Summing up, all you need to take who meals with whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes, beans or any that offers you more of proteins, fibers and energy and less of fats, carbs and calories. Focusing your attention on vegetables and lean meat which you can roast, boil or grill can help you to lose weight this Ramadan.

Just plan the meals of your straight 30 days in the recommended way and enjoy your slim body at the end.

REMINDER: don’t forget your efforts after Ramadan is finished. You might start gaining weight if you leave your efforts right in the middle of your journey.

How? We will discuss it in this article. Have patience and stick to Iftar for a while.

Now after eating dates, taking beverages and the wholesome meal, you might feel unable to stand. Yes, this happens and that what we want you to stop. How? Here is the answer.

Watch your portions and size of your plate

Don’t try to cover all of your untimely snacking of off-Ramadan days at iftar. Again, keep it to the casual dinner level. Take the small portion and use small plates. That will help you to manage how much of what you are eating. Solved?

There is a wide research available how portion size can help you lose more weight. A research published in 2014 at NCBI website describes how proportioned food (PPFs) can help control your daily food intake according to your energy requirements. Moreover, there are other tools in the market as well that can help you to control your portion size that will, in turn, help you lose weight.

This pro-tip is not only for Ramadan but for life.

What should you not eat at Iftar to lose weight in Ramadan?

The simple answer is just avoiding all the things which don’t come up to the level of things mentioned in the ‘what to eat ‘section can help you. Is it that simple? NO.

Sometimes, we unintentionally add those things which are apparently healthy or okay but deep down they hit us hard. For instance, the sugar you might add to your shakes, lemonade or other juices strikes your glucose and blood sugar level rigidly and alters your good blood cholesterol to the LDL cholesterol. But how can you even think of a shake without sugar?

Use brown sugar, raw sugar or honey. According to NYT (New York Times), brown sugar has few of things that can actually affect your health. It contains molasses and numerous minerals including iron, magnesium, potassium etc. and it tastes great. It goes through fewer processing procedures than the refined white sugar and offers you something healthy than mounting your glucose level to the sky.

Moreover, sinking the calories is your ultimate goal. Remember? So, avoiding anything that contains calories more than you burn your whole day is not your healthy option. Similarly, avoiding fats, carbs and sugar can cover all for what you should not eat to lose weight in Ramadan.

Post-Iftar Workout

A lot of people ask for if it is okay to workout in Ramadan or not. The plain answer is, of course, it is okay because you might have been taking more nutritive bites than in the off-Ramadan day, eh? But there are fewer tactics to follow.

Let’s have a look at what actually happens to your body when you’re fasting for a whole month, the straight 30 days.

Particularly in summer as in the Ramadan of 2017, you get dehydrated but not as much as you might get while doing an aerobic exercise for over 60 minutes. (If you know about it). So, water is nowhere in your metabolic processes during the holy month of Ramadan. It is all about fats that you have eaten, that you have stored and that you want to shed. Deal?

You metabolic activity will be slowed down in Ramadan because of less food intake and dehydration, therefore, the best suggestion is to focus and preserve your lean muscles as much as you can and that will hit your fats directly, will boost up your metabolism and will help you lose weight in Ramadan, automatically.

Yes, if you’re doing it right it is that easy.

We suggest you go for a simple cardio for 2 days a week during Ramadan. Aerobic is out of the question. Give you 30 minutes a day to cardio like the brisk walk, jogging or other activities and let your fats shed.

REMINDER: Never forget to have a light walk for 5 to 10 minutes right after Iftar.

Ramadan is not only full of divine blessings but also offer you a lot to manage your life towards fitness. And a lot of eastern and western research has supported this idea. A research published in the famous European Journal of Clinical Nutrition describes Ramadan as a great source to avoid weight gain and diverse cardiovascular diseases including diabetes, heart stroke, blood pressure and many others.

Now come to the time of this workout.

When to do the workout in Ramadan to lose weight?

The time can vary but it should never be during the fasting hours. Workout during the fasting hours can be more hazardous than being even slightly beneficial. A supported research believes that dehydrating a single muscle by 3% can spoil it by 12%. Dangerous!

So we never recommend you to devour your left out energy into the workout in the ultimate desire or losing weight and end up getting admitted to the hospital for the next week. God Forbid!

Then, what is the best time to work out to lose weight in Ramadan? It can be after the Taraweeh prayer at night. If you want to do some exercise at home, your trainer can help you. But for the gym, this is the best time as you will be packed with water and other nutrients necessary to kill the heat in the gym. If you think it is not compatible with your schedule, you can go for it one hour right after Iftar. Moderate intensity cardio to high-intensity cardio, both can help you to stay fit not only in Ramadan but even in the off-Ramadan days.

The third option is right before suhur. Okay, it might be tricky to let your alarm shut at 2 a.m. when you just slept at 11 p.m. but gulping some hot green tea or any other herbal tea to beat the laziness, wait for half an hour and head for 30-45 minutes gym hunting. Move to intensive sprinting taking 10 minutes and watch the Labrador running after you. Just an example!

Walk for a while and repeat. You are done!

Don’t forget to break your workout with cold swings of water, water and more water.

Are you done?

After following a healthy diet, a reasonable physical activity and a full-time dedication you are on your way to losing weight in Ramadan. We have discussed what do’s and don’t’s, what can help you and what can push you back to you chubbiness and what you can do for extra assistance.

Now the question is:

‘will all of these efforts keep paying you after Ramadan or will you be back to your pre-Ramadan weight?’

That’s an important question because losing weight in Ramadan holds the long term goal or losing weight for the whole of your life but how’s that possible.

A research published in 2012 analyzed the study conducted majorly in West Asia and remaindered in East Asia and Africa to check the effects of Ramadan on weight loss of healthy adults. They found that the weight loss during Ramadan among those healthy adults was significant. Even the weight loss was more noticeable in Asian inhabitants than in Africans or Europeans but they also witnessed that the weight loss at the end of Ramadan was pointedly lower than the start of the Ramadan and after Ramadan, most of the weight was regained within only 2 weeks. The concluded their study on the note that most of the weight is regained after Ramadan returning back to pre-Ramadan state and the only solution to this problem is the structured and consistent lifestyle. They further added in their conclusion that not only hydration level, meals people take and activity they undergo but sleeping hours have a great contribution towards weight management in Ramadan.

From this research, what you can conclude generally that leaving your healthy eating habits and workout plan stay there for only Ramadan can slam you back at the same BMI. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle as you adopted in Ramadan, going for potential workout 3-4 days a week and sleep management is what you need to maintain your weight loss after Ramadan.

Other things Ramadan can help you for

Under the reference of all the research and all nutritious recommendations, there are three basic points we have come up with for the weight loss and they are:

> Eat healthy

> Don’t get lazy

> Do some workout

This is same as the recommendations of off-Ramadan weight loss but the difference is in the routine. In off-Ramadan days, you are eating all the time or whenever you want but in Ramadan, your snacking habit gets ripped. And this is one of the most robust roles that Ramadan plays in your weight losing journey.

Ramadan help you drop untimely snacking

A research published on NCBI reported via their prolonged study on the participants of 58 years who had different times for snacking that the weight loss was significantly lower in those who had their snacks at mid-morning than those who didn’t have their snacks at mid-morning, but still, the difference was not that significant. Therefore, they concluded that snacking might add fruits, vegetables or other fiber rich food to people’s diet but the patterns of snacking can robustly reflect you unhealthy eating habits that can hinder your weight losing journey.

Now, if you look at your Ramadan routine, you don’t snack at all and if you had had some bad snacking habits, the 30 days of NO SNACK can help you leave the habits.

Ramadan helps smoking cessation

When you’re fasting even during Ramadan or during the other months of the year, you are not allowed to take anything in whether it is the serum from injection of the smoke from the cigarettes. Smoking is prohibited along all other immoral acts. And when you are not allowed to smoke for at least 14 hours of a single day for the whole of the month that can help you for smoking cessation.

A research published in National Library of Medicine supports the idea of smoking cessation due to Ramadan. Ramadan can also help you to leave many of your bad habits that are actually forbidden for the fasting hours.

Conclusion

So, this blessed 9th month of lunar year offers a variety of blessings to you marking weight loss as the one. It automatically helps you eat less, manage your habits and routine and help you lose weight as an ultimate goal. Keeping you away from various chronic diseases is also a trick Ramadan can do to you.

We have discussed here, what Ramadan is all about, what you can do at Suhur and Iftar and what you can avoid at Suhur and Iftar for answering how to lose weight. We have discussed the workout plan and timings for your weight loss journey and what your kids can eat to fast during Ramadan. Furthermore, what diseases you can shield yourself against with Ramadan and what habits you can kill during Ramadan.

The final thing is whether you want to do it or not? It is all up-to you. If you have decided to lose weight during Ramadan and to maintain it after Ramadan, the above-mentioned guideline can help you step by step. Join your friends and rock the world with your slim waist and healthy body.

Eat healthy, don’t spend your days while sleeping, offer your prayer, recite Quran, offer charity, help others, offer the needy food, make your heart clear, forgive others, seek forgiveness from Allah, recite Durood for the Last Prophet of Allah, pray a lot to get your prayers listened, don’t miss Laila-Tul-Qadar and live a happy peaceful life.

May Allah help you for all the things you’re doing for losing weight or for achieving any other goal in life.

Stay Blessed! Stay Healthy, Help Others! Spread Love!