Showing posts with label Katrina Kaif diet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Katrina Kaif diet. Show all posts
Patisserie chefs reveal how they tweak their celebrity clients’ favourite desserts to make them healthier
8:33 AM
Festive months are all about indulgences. But two patisserie chefs tell us how they tweak their celebrity clients’ favourite desserts to make them healthier. Are you taking notes?
MID-DAY (September 7, 2022)
Katrina Kaif
What she orders: Pancakes
How is it customized: Katrina has pancakes during every festival. These are hot-chocolate pancakes made with cinnamon, Belgian chocolate, and buckwheat flour. There is no added sugar, and we don’t use sweeteners either. The cinnamon lends some sweetness, and she has it with a cookie butter spread. Again, we make a healthier version using buckwheat and almond butter. Since the spread has coconut, it also lends a sweet taste.
Tips to make pancakes healthier: If you plan to make pancakes, use yogurt instead of butter. Yogurt will lend the pancake the same kind of fluffiness and softness that butter can. If you are vegan, you can also use coconut yogurt.
Rajkummar Rao and Patralekhaa
What do they order: Vanilla cakes
How do you customize it: They don’t like chocolate, and [prefer cakes] with yogurt frosting, fresh vanilla and berries. The texture resembles whipped cream, but it is made of yogurt. We may add maple syrup.
Tips to make cakes healthier: We need to remember that it’s not only about calories. The substitutes may have the same amount of calories, but they will have more nutritional value. So, celebrities prefer the alternatives. For example, coconut has the lowest glycemic index, so, it will give you the lowest sugar spike. Also complex carbs like jowar will make your body burn more calories to [break them down].
For those who count their calories, we also serve subscription boxes. For example, Bhavna Panday has our 85-calorie cupcake subscription. So, anyone consuming it can keep track of how many calories they’ve had.
Jacqueline Fernandez
What she orders: Jowar nutty cake
How is it customized: It is made of Belgian chocolate, and has a molten centre.
Tips to make cakes healthier: Gluten-free versions that are made of oats or jowar flour are better than maida, which has no nutrients.
Substituting the flour will not hamper the taste of the cakes. In 2022, let’s get rid of the notion that healthier options are not equally tasty. Instead of processed oil, use olive oil or avocado oil. The latter has a high smoking point, so the nutrients are retained. Refined oil is only fat, and is thus best avoided.
Kajal Aggarwal
What does she order: She orders our box of cupcakes. Out of six cupcakes, five will be different varieties of chocolate cupcakes.
How do you customize it for her: She doesn’t have maida or sugar. We make the vegan cupcakes gluten-free.
Tips to make cupcakes healthier: For regular cupcakes, choose yogurt frosting. I use jaggery, dates or honey. If you are only starting to make healthier choices now, take small steps. For example, instead of one portion of maida, use half portion of maida, and half portion of a multi-grain flour. Replace sugar with jaggery or coconut sugar. If you need a binder, dates are a great option. Avocado oil is a great replacement for butter. Both of them lend the final product a lot of moisture. Avocado oil is neutral-tasting too, so, the taste [won’t bother] anyone.
Armaan Malik
What he orders: Indian sweets
How do you customize it: Armaan wants everything to be sugar-free and vegan. If it is gluten-free, it is a bonus. It is tough to get vegan options in Indian sweets, because everything normally has ghee. I make vegan besan ka ladoo, chikki, and nankhatai for him.
Tips to make Indian sweets healthier: Use Indian flavour appropriately. I use jaggery and saffron to mask the taste of the gluten-free flour. Jaggery and nutmeg complement Indian flavours very well, and it is easier to achieve a taste that’s closer to regular Indian Mithai.
Erica Fernandes
What does she order: Fruit cakes
How do you customize it: Erica is very strict [with her diet]. She has gluten-free and sugar-free desserts. She likes to avoid butter and milk. She likes the mango and strawberry fruit cakes we prepare during the respective seasons. She prefers a Greek yogurt [frosting] and doesn’t mind a jaggery base.
Tips to make fruit cakes healthier: Apple purée is a replacement for eggs, and a natural sweetener as well. Berries are great for one’s health, and so are seasonal fruits, which can be added atop the frosting.
Juhi Pahwa caters to Katrina Kaif, Rajkummar Rao and Patralekhaa, and Jacqueline Fernandez
Natasha Gandhi caters to Kajal Aggarwal, Armaan Malik, and Erica Fernandes
I enjoy a mix of workouts; fad diets like Keto neither interest me nor work in my favour-Katrina Kaif
8:25 AM
Katrina Kaif on how to maintain that chiselled physique as she turns ambassador for a fitness apparel brand
As told to Sonia Lulla (MID-DAY; July 10, 2019)
Training for reel
[My routine is crafted] to achieve the required look for a film. In Tiger Zinda Hai, I wanted to look like someone who is capable of pulling off that kind of action, so, I needed the tone and definition. For Bharat, [where I played a] girl from the ’70s and ’90s, I could not look like someone who goes to the gym. So, I stopped functional training entirely for that period, and did only pilates and yoga. I enjoyed the break. For a film that demands a [heightened] level of fitness, a stage show or photo- shoot, I will tweak my routine to include high-intensity work, cardiovascular exercises, and swimming. I mix it up. I find it exciting to mould my physique based on the demand. Yet, I am always in touch with some fitness form.
Watching what I eat
I realised early on that fad diets like Keto neither interest me nor work in my favour. I adopt [basic] principles like cutting out refined sugar, dairy, gluten, and oily foods. You follow these and you can have an enjoyable [meal plan]. I stay away from foods that are inflammatory, and eat a good amount of protein, vegetables, and carbs like rice and sweet potatoes. I keep my meals light after 7 pm. But, if I’m trying to achieve a target or prepare for a role, I follow a strict diet.
To women who look up to you as a fitness icon
I am not blessed with a high basal metabolic rate. In fact, when I started training, I was advised to increase my resting BMR. I’ve been lucky to get great advice. Each woman must decide what is right for her. Don’t make fitness about another person. It shouldn’t feel like a struggle. Women must understand that if there are targets, there are ways to achieve them. Choose something that suits you and makes you feel good.
How action and dance training affects fitness
You increase your energy output with dance or action training. When you are training for an activity for three hours a day, you’re burning so many more calories. So, if I undergo that training, the body will respond. Also, the level of fitness achieved via such movements is hard to replicate in the gym, because dance and action employ natural movements from the body. They are hard to mimic in a gym [set-up]. So, one will be in better shape when doing such training.
When not shooting
As of today, [while prepping for a role], I do high-intensity functional exercises, which include plyometric jumps, box jumps and other similar dynamic movements. These are difficult. So I don’t do them all the time. When I’m in between achieving a goal, I take it easy and give my body time to relax. I prefer pilates, which is gentler, and provides a wholesome [workout]. Also, I like classical weight-training; not one that increases the heart rate too much. I enjoy swimming and movement oriented workouts [that combine] yoga and functional training into a cardiovascular pattern. I literally decide the night before what I’m going to do the next day.
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What works for me
A mix of pilates and cardio has always been great
On scheduling
I enjoy a mix of workouts, including swimming, HIIT, pilates and functional training. I literally decide the night before what I’ll do the next day
Things I’ll never eat
Refined sugar, dairy and gluten
Katrina Kaif breaks silence on her flat abs
8:01 AM
DNA (April 12, 2016)
Katrina Kaif set social media ablaze with her performance on the IPL opening night. Everyone was talking about how the camera kept focusing on her flat abs and how DJ Bravo couldn’t take his eyes off her. Katrina has always been a fit actress, but this time, her abs became the talking point. When asked about it, Katrina said, “Honestly, I don’t work towards just abs, but fitness as a whole. You need to see the body as a whole not just arms or legs or abs. What you eat is important and I’m very paritcular about my diet and have healthy food. The plus side of that is when you relax on off days you enjoy indulging so much more than if you did it every day. Also, if you work hard it will show. If you put in serious work in the gym you will see the results. And Yasmin, my trainer, is very serious about it with me. We set our goals and try to achieve them.”
Talking about the most difficult part of performing live on stage she added, “The stamina. I enjoy the dance, the live audience, the set up, but I always worry whether my energy will last till the end. You need to remember to breathe. But most of all you need to really enjoy what you are doing.”
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