Who Else Wants to Use Ayurveda Diet for Healthy Weight Loss?
Ayurveda diet for weight loss is all about balancing your Ayurveda body types(doshas) and, as a natural result, releasing your extra body fat.
By the end of this page you will find all the answers to your questions about this highly integrated and effective system of losing weight and keeping it off.
Ayurveda weight loss is based on the premise that your optimum weight is a state of balance between your body's three specific doshas: Vata, Pitta, & Kapha.
Knowing what is your predominant dosha is essential if you are to balance it to restore your health and reach your optimum weight - we'll talk about this in a moment.
Before that, you should know that Ayurveda diet for weight loss is all about:
adjusting your metabolism to help your body break down your stores of fat and have more energy
slowing down the digestion of carbohydrates, so you don't have hunger pangs or food cravings
normalizing your digestion, so you're able to absorb more nutrients from food
Believe it or not, the Ayurvedic diet is increasingly popular in the West.
Why?
Simply because it is an unfailing, holistic approach to losing weight and keeping it off.
It's true, this is not a lose-weight-quick diet, you see results gradually.
But the best part is that you can easily enjoy this system for the rest of your life.
How so? That's because Ayurveda diet integrates 4 main elements:
1) Cleansing: once a year, eliminate the toxins that trap the fat in your body and make you weak
2) Nutrition: balance your specific dosha, eat foods appropriate for each season, at specific times of the day, and include all six tastes (sweet, salty, sour, bitter, pungent, and astringent) to stop your food cravings
3) Exercising: work out according to your specific dosha (body type)
4) Stress relief: practice deep breathing and any stress-releasing techniques daily to release stress, which is the biggest weight loss enemy
Let's talk briefly about the first two first, cleansing and nutrition.
The last two, exercising and relaxation techniques specific to each dosha are dealt with on the Ayurvedic weight loss page.
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Ayurveda Diet: 1. Cleansing
Cleansing regularly - or detoxifying your body - is a key part of Ayurveda system of healing. According to this ancient wisdom, nature supports cleansing of your body in spring. Like the warm weather that melts the snow in spring, this season has a similar effect on your body's toxins.
What happens if you don't cleanse? Your body becomes clogged with toxins, making you prone to flu, colds, cough, and allergies. You might feel fatigued, sluggish, and experience wild hunger pangs.
While most conventional detox herbal products on the market cleanse only your colon and your digestive tract, the Ayurveda diet detoxification system does that and so much more: it cleanses your liver, blood, sweat glands, and elimination organs, preventing the build-up of toxins in your muscle tissue.
As a result, you lose a few pounds almost immediately, feel energized, and sleep better. Your complexion clears, you concentrate better and your mood greatly improves. In a word: you feel rejuvenated.
Ayurveda Diet: 2. Nutrition
The right nutrition for your dosha is paramount in Ayurveda, as balancing your Ayurveda body type takes you half-way to losing weight naturally and for good. To balance your specific dosha, you have to remember a simple Ayurvedic principle: "like increases like, while dislike (opposite) decreases like."
It's simple, really. For example:
if your body's energy is predominantly Vata (cold & dry), balance your dosha with Vata Diet: favor warm drinks and moist, oily, warm foods; avoid cold drinks or ice cream, as they increase, or 'aggravate' Vata
if your body's energy is predominantly Pitta (hot), balance your dosha with Pitta Diet: favor sweet fruits and leafy vegetables; avoid fatty, spicy foods, as these 'aggravate' Pitta
if your body's energy is predominantly Kapha (moist & cool), balance your dosha with Kapha Diet: favor raw vegetables, warm drinks, and spicy foods; avoid salty, deep fried foods, sweets, ice cream, and any cold drinks, as these 'aggravate' Kapha
But you have to know one more thing: in Ayurveda diet for weight loss system, it's equally important WHEN you eat, too.
That's because eating foods when they are in season restores your body's natural biorhythms and is one of the best ways to speed up your metabolism for a maximum fat-burning power.
Also, when lunch is your biggest meal of the day, you match the natural circadian rhythm, when your digestion and assimilation are at their peak (around noon) and further increase your metabolism.
Try this system for a few days and see for yourself - you'll be glad you did!
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