Healthy Flours: You can include these healthy alternatives to flour during your weight loss journey

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle and embarking on a weight loss journey can be difficult for many of you. Many people come and tell us what we should eat and what we should not eat.

SPECIAL THINGS

• You do not need to reduce food to lose weight.
• During weight loss, we look for healthy options.
• The most common bread in our food is bread.

Nowadays there are many other flour substitutes that we can try.

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle and embarking on a weight loss journey can be difficult for many of you. Many people come and tell us what we should eat and what we should not eat. If it is not so, then the diet chart of your dietician can also surprise you in many ways. Controlling calories and incorporating new foods into your diet can be challenging. Finally, when you see healthy changes in your body. While cutting down on food is never a good option, rather find ways in which you can replace your daily ingredients. To help you in your weight loss journey, we are going to introduce you to something new.

One thing which is most common in our food is roti. In Indian homes, only wheat flour is used to make bread. But if you are thinking of making changes in your diet, then we have come up with some alternatives of flour that you can use to make roti, and you will not have to give up roti even during your weight loss journey. So without any delay let's know about these healthy alternatives of flour.

Flours For Weight Loss: These flours can help you in weight loss:

Millet flour

• Millet flour is considered good for weight loss. Millet flour is rich in gluten and protein. It is healthy as it contains a high amount of fiber, iron, and many other nutrients. Along with its high nutritional value, millet also keeps your hunger pangs at bay for a long time, and thus it helps in weight loss.

Jowar flour

• Jowar contains protein, fiber, magnesium, and calcium which benefit our bodies. Jowar is also gluten-free, so people who do not eat wheat can consume its flour. On the other hand, due to the good amount of fiber, people who are trying to lose weight also like to include it in their diet. Apart from roti, you can also make dosa with it.

Oats flour

• Oats are today seen in popular breakfast options. You can use oats to make masala oats, idli, cheela, and upma. But if you want, you can use oats in the form of flour and make bread from it. Soluble fiber and antioxidant properties are found in oats. Oats are rich in zinc, manganese, calcium, protein, iron, vitamin-B and E, which are considered helpful in controlling cholesterol. On the other hand, those who want to lose weight can also include it in their diet.

Buckwheat flour

• Buckwheat flour is usually consumed during Navratri or some other fast. But looking at its benefits, you can eat it on regular days as well. It is rich in magnesium, vitamin B, iron, calcium, folate, zinc, copper, manganese, and phosphorus. It also contains a phytonutrient routine which lowers cholesterol and blood pressure. Apart from this, protein is also present in it which is considered helpful in weight loss.

Ragi flour

• Ragi flour is gluten-free, which is rich in fiber and amino acids. It keeps your stomach full for a long time and hence you do not need to eat at regular intervals. It is also easily digested. It is also considered a healthy option for diabetic patients. Apart from ragi roti, you can also make cheela and cookies.

Almond flour

• We all know how beneficial eating almonds is. Nowadays almond flour is commonly used to make cookies, cakes, and bread. But if you want, you can make rotis by mixing it with any other flour.

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