You must have an early dinner. But if you get home late from work every second day, it might not be possible. So keep your dinner light. Also avoid going to bed on a full stomach.

Have your dinner at least two hours before you go to sleep. This is because your metabolic activity slows down by the end of the day and you will land up overloading yourself with a heavy dinner.

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Think one-dish meals. They are easy and quick to prepare and give you your required nutrition.

Here are 2 simple options. You can make your own meals based on these.

1. Soya/ Chicken vegetable pilaf

The soya and sprouts will give you protein, the veggies have their vitamins and the rice has carbs. You can also add in some chicken if you like.

2. Paneer (cottage cheese) vegetable parathas

Paneer will give you protein, the wheat flour has carbs as well as fibre and complex vitamins, the veggies have vitamins too and the little oil used to fry them will give you the appropriate amount of fat.

Dietician Sushila Sharangdhar tells you How to Follow a Healthy Diet.

(With inputs from Sushila Sharangdhar, Consulting Dietician, www.wellnessdiet.com)