03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Malaika Arora doesn't eat after 7 pm, follows 17-hour intermittent fasting: ‘It has worked like magic for me'
Bollywood celebrities like Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor are often praised for their fitness and both of them swear by the fact that having their dinner before sunset is one of the major reasons behind their fitness. Now, Malaika Arora has also endorsed the same lifestyle as the 49-year-old recently revealed that she does not eat any meals after 7 pm. In a recent interview, Malaika spoke about her routine and shared that she follows intermittent fasting of 17 hours every alternate day and in the seven hours that she eats, she likes to eat everything.
'It's all portion control. I don't believe in cheat days and stuff like that,' Malaika shared in a chat on 32ND – Lifestyle, Investments & Residences' YouTube channel. Malaika shared that unlike her son, she does not weigh her food before eating it, and prefers to eat in a bowl. 'I like eating out of a bowl and it's a specific size of a bowl and that's the amount that I will eat,' she said.
Malaika Arora then shared her intermittent fasting routine and said, 'I do intermittent fasting. That's something that has worked like magic for me. I think it just resets my entire system. I sleep better, I wake up better, I don't feel heavy. I used to do it everyday, then I started doing it every alternate day. And it's not about fasting or dieting. There's a big difference between dieting and fasting, it's a huge difference. I eat but I eat in that time, in that limited time of the day and that's what I eat.'
Malaika then spoke about her 'no food after 7 pm rule' and shared, 'Another thing that I swear by is, don't eat after sunset. My last meal is at 7 pm. I try not to eat anything after that. Until next day. I wake up early but I don't eat anything. I probably just break it with ghee. 12 noon is when I actually have my first meal. So my proper heavy meal is when I actually eat. And then I eat everything, whether it's rice, roti, sabzi, everything. I eat everything.' Malika said that she will soon turn 50 and added, that for someone who is older, they have other health concerns to take care of. 'After a certain age, you are battling with a whole lot of things. I am 49. I will be 50,' she said. Malaika recently started her restaurant business in Mumbai.
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Recently, during a conversation with Nod magazine, Kareena Kapoor spoke about her new routine where she revealed that she does not eat after 6 pm, and sleeps by 9:30 pm. 'My friends know not to expect me at parties. And they respect that,' she shared.
Veteran actor Mumtaz, who is 77, also shared that she does not eat after 6 pm and credited Akshay Kumar for that advice. 'I sleep at about 9-10 pm and I get up at 4-5 in the morning. I do my exercise at 7 am then I drink black tea. Then I take very little breakfast, not very fattening. And that's it. Then I have lunch. I don't have dinner. I just take some fruits. I don't eat dinner,' she shared in a chat with Radio Nasha Official.
