Pitta Dosha Ayurveda Diet for Weight Loss: Get a Sample Menu and Supplements Tips to Boost Your Metabolism

Any Pitta dosha imbalance leads to Pittas' predicament: emotional overeating due to emotional stress, which creates an excess of acid in your stomach.

Believe it or not, this is why you so often feel ravenously hungry and crave sweet, heavy, and "cooling" foods like ice cream and iced drinks.

Discover here how to balance your dosha, what is your Pitta Ayurvedic weight loss diet, including specific supplements helpful for your dosha.

Before anything else, you should know that the slightest imbalance in your Pitta dosha disturbs your naturally strong & efficient digestion, which otherwise allows you to eat just about everything.

That's why it is very important to understand what’s happening when you skip meals - one of the frequent diet mistakes of the perpetually busy Pittas ;-)

Think of setting an empty pot on the stove: the heat is on, but there's nothing to be cooked, so the pot itself gets burned.

Similarly, if you don't feed your strong digestive fire regularly, next time when you eat the food gets "burned" - because there's too much acidity in your stomach. As a result, the food isn't digested properly, creating loads of toxins in your system and slowing down your metabolism and the absorption of nutrients.

Pitta Dosha Ayurvedic Weight Loss Diet

The most important adjustment you could make in your Ayurveda diet is to avoid sour, spicy, salty food and to avoid eating when you’re stressed or angry. Remember to drink lots of pure, room-temperature water throughout the day.

What to Favor: according to Vata Dosha Ayurvedic weight loss, you should favor cool/warm, dry food with moderately heavy textures and sweet, bitter, and astringent tastes: sweet & fully-ripened fruits, milk, skimmed cream cheese, dark green leafy vegetables, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, green beans, and zucchini.

A great weight loss help for you as a Pitta dosha is daikon radish. Grate it and add it raw over your other cooked vegetables for an exquisite flavor.

Use (in moderation) good fats like olive and flaxseed oil in salads; for cooking, especially good for you is coconut oil - very helpful in weight loss.

All these healthy cooking oils lubricate and help repair your stomach lining, easily damaged by hyperacidity.

Here's an example of daily menus that will pacify your Pitta dosha making your body release the extra weight fast and with ease.

• Breakfast: try cold cereals or cinnamon toast and a cup of slightly warm milk or apple tea; another good choice is a cinnamon fruit stew of apples, pears, prunes, or figs - it will soothe the digestive fire without overloading it.


• Lunch (which should be the heaviest meal of the day):
  20% cooked grains (basmati rice, whole barley, oats, quinoa),
  30% proteins (chicken/turkey, shrimp, beans), and
  50% steamed/sautéed starch-free vegetables with a dash of coconut oil and a mix of "cooling" spices (fennel, coriander, cumin and turmeric in a proportion of 4:3:2:1 respectively).


• Late afternoon snack: try some sweet, juicy fruits like apples, cherries, mangoes, melons, plums or red/black grapes.


• Dinner: Have a light dinner not later than 7 PM: steamed asparagus, broccoli, peppers, green beans, or mushrooms with skimmed cottage or ricotta cheese and a light desert of baked sweet fruits or rice-milk. Just before bed, take a cup of warm milk with some shredded coconut/orange rind; the mild, sweet flavours will calm and relax you for a restful sleep.

What to Avoid: according to Vata Dosha Ayurvedic weight loss, you should avoid any fried & steaming hot foods, salty, fatty, or sour foods (pickles, yogurt, sour cream, sour fruits, tomatoes, vinegar, and anything fermented). Avoid condiments and hot spices like mustard, cayenne, chillies, ginger, black pepper, and clove.

Avoid also hot drinks, yeast bread, aged cheese, red meat, potatoes, and reduce "heating" grains like brown rice and corn, and "warming" vegetables like carrots, beets, spinach, eggplant, onion, and garlic.

Stay away from honey and protein powder drinks, as they create hyperacidity. Pass up all nuts except coconut (shredded) and almonds (in small amounts). Any processed & fast foods are completely out of question, as they contain bad fats that create huge amounts of stomach acid and throw your Pitta dosha completely out of balance.

Helpful Supplements for Your Pitta Dosha

The most effective ones are:

• green tea and mint tea
• licorice root
• guggul
• garcinia cambogia
• triphala

For Pitta dosha, extremely helpful for weight loss is the so-called herbalized water:

Herbalized Water: Boil 1 quart of water and add 2 pinches ground fenugreek, 2 pinches licorice root, 1/4 teaspoon whole coriander seeds, and 1/4 teaspoon fennel seeds. Let it steep and cool down. Strain and drink throughout the day, as it is "cooling" and helps you to eliminate toxins, burn more fat, and improve the absorptions of vital nutrients.
Have high blood pressure or tend to retain water? Simply skip the licorice.

If you're like most people, you're a combination of two doshas - a predominant and a secondary one. Both of them influence you, depending on the combination's percentage. Either one can be out of balance and needs to be "pacified" for your optimum physical and emotional equilibrium, so you may want to check as well...

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