October Weight Loss Diet Plan

If you’ve taken up our October weight loss challenge, this diet / meal plan is all you need to achieve your weight loss goals. Also included in this article is the 8 days navratri diet plan. This diet plan provides balanced nutrition to the body on all days. It includes food from all the major food groups. It is simple to follow and yet is highly effective.

Focus of this diet plan

• Eat a variety of food but in moderation
• Add quality protein in all  your meals
• Focus on healthy snacking
• Avoid constant grazing the entire day
• Have a fixed eating schedule or routine
• Add some healthy millets to your diet

Some important pointers to follow this diet plan

• Start your day with 2-3 glasses of warm water
• Follow this up with one glass of overnight 1/2 tsp fennel seeds soaked water
• 1^st meal of the day : 5 soaked almonds and 6 soaked raisins
• Include ajwain and mint with curd or chaas
• Consume herbal tea post meal
• As a bed time drink, consume cinnamon tea or chamomile tea
• One fresh seasonal fruit as mid morning snack

1^st week

	Breakfast	Lunch	Snack	Dinner
Mon	1 raggi chilla with stuffing and veggies	Seasonal veggies, salad with 1/2 cup sprouted moong dal	Roasted makhana	Tomato soup. Daliya khichadi and veggies
Tue	Oats upma with veggies	Chana dal, roti and dahi	Homemade snack	Clear soup with grilled veggies and roti
Wed	Missi roti with chutney	Vegetable salad with 80 grams grilled paneer / tofu	Murmura namkeen	Multigrain roti with sabzi and veggies
Thru	1 cup veggies with 1 cup poha	Kala chana sabzi with ragi roti and dahi	Raosted gur chana	Paneer roti roll with veggies
Fri	Detox smoothie	Seasonal vegetable salad	Any fruit / vegetable	Vegetable stew
Sat	Oats apple smoothie (made in plant milk or water)	Chole chawal with salad	Roasted makhana	Quinoa khichadi with veggies
Sun	One parantha	Love meal	Roasted chana	Moong dal khichadi

2^nd week

	Breakfast	Lunch	Snack	Dinner
Mon	Besan chilla with veggies	Vegetable salad with 1.5 cup dal	Roasted chana dal chaat	Grilled paneer with vegetable and 1 roti
Tue	Daliya upma with 1 cup sabzi	Vegetable rice sprouts pulao	Homemade snack	Quinoa dal khichadi
Wed	Idli sambhar with chutney	Vegetable salad with 80 grams grilled paneer / tofu	Energy bars	Soup with veggies and 1 roti
Thru	Sprouts with veggies	Quinoa vegetable salad	Raosted makhana	Grilled veggies with daliya soup
Fri	Detox smoothie	Seasonal vegetable salad	Any fruit / vegetable	Vegetable stew
Sat	Paneer or vegetable toast	Rajma chawal with salad	Any fruit / vegetable	Ragi vegetable soup
Sun	One stuffed parantha	Love meal	Murmura namkeen	Moong dal khichadi

Navratri fasting diet plan

• Start your day with soaked nuts and raisins
• Stay hydrated
• Don’t stop working out
• Meditate for at least 15 minutes daily

	Breakfast	Snack	Lunch	Dinner
Day 1	Rajgira smoothie	Fruit	Sabudana khichadi and dahi	Carrot tomato soup
Day 2	Apple carrot smoothie	Phool makhana	Sabu rice Buddha bowl	Lauki sabzi 1.5 bowl
Day 3	Kuttu chilla with paneer	Fruit	Roasted buckwheat / kuttu salad	Carrot tomato soup
Day 4	Buckwheat smoothie	Fruit	Rajgira potato pancakes and dahi	Grilled paneer with veggies
Day 5	2 fruits	Phool makhana	1 bowl lauki sabzi and dahi	Sauteed veggies
Day 6	Sabu rice smoothie	Fruit	Kuttu chilla and dahi	Sabudana veggies soup
Day 7	Rajgira smoothie	Fruit	Sabudana khichadi	Sabu dana rice and jaggery kheer
Day 8	2 fruits	Phool makhana	Rice pulao	Grilled paneer with veggies