7 foods that can help you to reduce weight

1. Green tea

Green tea has the incredible power to shift your fat-fighting metabolism into high gear. Research suggesting that exercisers who drink green tea lose twice as much weight as those who don't. The benefits of green tea shouldn't be lessened by the addition of flavors. However, if the flavoring includes sugar, it may contain more calories than unflavored teas.

2. Olive oil

Olive oil has long been touted as healthy – now it’s also being credited with aiding weight loss and preventing cancer. It has scientifically proven medicinal and weight-loss properties, which can be sourced by having three tablespoons or about 50ml of olive oil a day.

3. Broccoli

Adding more broccoli to your diet will help you with weight loss because it is a low-calorie food that can help you fill up quickly. Broccoli's high fiber levels and water content add volume to your meal without adding empty calories, so you can eat, not be hungry and still lose weight. It's also an easy low-calorie snack.

4. Lettuce

With a mere 60–70 calories per pound, lettuce is high on the list of diet-friendly foods. Romaine lettuce alone is a great source of B vitamins, folic acid, and manganese, which helps regulate blood sugar and is essential for proper immune system function.

5. Spinach

Tender and flavorful, this leafy green is rich in iron, folic acid, and vitamin K. It also contains disease-fighting antioxidants beta-carotene and vitamin C, as well as the phytochemical lutein, which protects eyes against age-related macular degeneration. It can be lightly sauté with shredded carrot, sliced mushrooms, and garlic for a savory omelet filling.

6. Almonds

Eat a handful of almonds, in place of your regular snack. They are low in calories, making them perfect for a quick and easy weight loss snack. It has healthy amount of fiber, which will satisfy your hunger, so you feel fuller for longer. Add almonds to your breakfast to fill your stomach and keep you energised and full until your next snack or lunchtime.

7. Cinnamon

Cinnamon helps prevent  increased storage of fat and enables you to lose weight. It influences the manner in which sugar is metabolized by the body and prevents the transformation of the metabolized sugar into fat. Cinnamon also delays the passing of food from the stomach into the intestine. Hence, you feel satisfied for a longer time and eat less. 

Top 10 Cosmentic brands in India

1.Lakmé

Lakmé is the topmost brand in India, belonging to Unilever, most preferred and widely used brand in this country and also loved by makeup artists. It is named after the French opera Lakmé, which itself is the French form of Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth who has is also renowned for her beauty. It started as a 100% subsidiary of Tata Oil Mills (Tomco), part of the Tata Group.  

2. Revlon

Revlon is one of the best international cosmetic brand that came to India and gave a new range of quality products to the Indian women. Today, it continues to keep up its quality and the Indian women continue to enjoy Revlon’s trendy cosmetic colors and lively makeup kits.

3. L’Oreal

L’Oreal cosmetic products are considered to be the most glamorous cosmetic brand in India. One of the reasons for its glamorous appeal is that it is endorsed and used by top female celebrities of not only India but also Hollywood. May it be skin, hair or styling; L’Oreal is the favorite choice for all the glamour loving Indian beauties.

4. Maybelline

Maybelline is a trendier offering from the house of L’Oreal and many young Indian women love it for its sensational colors, every day wear makeup and handy cosmetic kits. The Maybelline lipsticks and eye makeup are amongst the hottest selling cosmetic products in India.

5. Elle 18

Elle 18 is a popular brand among young girls – college girls and teens. Their products come at very affordable prices and are high quality products, offering various funky colors that attract young girls a lot. Their range like color pops, color bombs have the funkiest colors ever. Their range includes nail colors, eye colors, lipsticks etc.

6. Coloressence

Coloressence is a part of Nature’s Essence which was born in India itself. Their range has many cosmetics for face, eyes, lips etc. All of the products are of really good quality at affordable price. Every Indian woman can easily go with this range for daily use.

7. VLCC

VLCC cosmetics range consist of many skin care, hair care, body care, body firming and shaping, foot care products which are claimed to be herbal or ayurvedic and they suit all skin types. Facial kits and different types of slimming products are also available of VLC cosmetics.   

8. Himalaya Herbals

Himalaya Herbals is also a very well-known Indian herbal cosmetic brand. Their wide range of products has almost everything from beauty to health care. The beauty range has skin and hair care products and also kajals in the makeup range.

9. Patanjali Ayurvedic

There are great responses for Patanjali products and everyone is trying them because of 98% natural ingredients, good quality and mostly because of good results. So one should try all the best products from Patanjali.

10. Joy Cosmetics

Joy Cosmetics was started at Kolkata in 1988. The Joy cosmetics consists of a wide range of personal care products, focused on skincare and haircare segments with Skin Fruits, Honey & Almonds, and 24K Gold as the power brands. The products are enriched with the goodness of Ayurveda, the age-old science based on active natural ingredients.

Leela - Image makeover of Sunny Leone

Ek Paheli Leela, an upcoming Bollywood Musical thriller film, written & directed by Bobby Khan and produced by Bhushan Kumar and Krishan Kumar. The trailer of the film went viral on YouTube with more than 13 Million views.

Sunny Leone will be seen playing different roles in Ek Paheli Leela. According to Sunny Leone it is going to be her most challenging film. Bobby Khan, the debutant director has described the characters played by Leone will be seen in different avatars. Her character in the present era will see her playing a London based super model with an Indian lineage, and will be seen in a very glamorous avatar.

A photo feature campaign comprising several models to be filmed in Rajasthan brings Leone to India and that’s where she meets a prince played by Mohit Ahlawat. They fall in love and soon get married. From a glamorous model, she becomes a princess and her whole attire changes. Sunny as a princess wear kurtas, ghagras, chaniya cholis and gajras.Can you Imagine Sunny in these clothes? But it was the requirement of the film and Sunny’s looking very beautiful and has also performed very well.

Interestingly, the film is a reincarnation story going back 300 years when Leone will be shown as a dusky looking village girl called Leela. She wears small cholis and skirts wrapped around her as girls wore un-stitched clothes in that era.

She has put a lots of efforts to learn Rajasthani as well as Hindi language. Filmmaker Bobby Khan, who casts Sunny Leone for his movie says many known actors refused to work in it because of the presence of the Indo-Canadian adult film star.Bobby Khan vouches for Sunny's professionalism. "Her past life was her choice, but in India, people's thinking is still like that. Many actors refused the film. Sunny felt bad and Daniel (Sunny's husband Daniel Weber) told me, 'Next time if you see an actor, I will come with you as I want to tell them that please work with my wife as she is very professional'. I felt very sad," added Mr Khan.

“The film which will show flashes of Sunny’s past is a beautiful story with enough suspense to keep the audience glued to their seats,” said Khan. 

Sunny hopes that she will definitely get an "image makeover" with this film.

Best Of Luck Sunny