The importance of lunch is clear from the saying “Breakfast like a prince, lunch like a king, and dinner like a pauper” and shows how having a satisfying and nutritious lunch helps to sustain energy levels to motor through rest of the day. That’s why, no matter what rest of the world says, basic dal chawal, roti sabzi fit the bill of a “substantial and nutritious lunch” and they are weight loss friendly too, you just need to watch your portions. Additionally, not just what you have for lunch, but when you have the lunch impacts your weight loss, says a study. To investigate the impact of meal timing on weight loss, a study in Spain involved 420 obese individuals seeking to lose weight at various nutritional clinics. The participants were categorized based on their timing of the main meal of the day, which typically refers to lunch in Spain. The findings revealed that those who ate lunch later (after 3 p.m.) experienced less weight loss compared to those who had an earlier lunch (before 3 p.m.), despite having similar age, levels of appetite hormones, energy intake and expenditure, sleep duration, and macronutrient distribution. Ideally, lunch should include plenty of vegetables, a source of complex carbs, a protein and healthy fats too. Now that it’s clear that an early lunch, let’s see what to have for lunch to accelerate your weight loss. In this article, we list down 4 lunch ideas to boost weight loss.
1. Cauliflower “Rice...