How to Lose Weight with
Pitta Dosha Diet

A Pitta dosha imbalance leads to Pittas' predicament: emotional overeating.

Due to emotional stress, which creates an excess of acid in your stomach, you 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.

An imbalance in your Pitta dosha disturbs your naturally strong & efficient digestion, which otherwise allows you to eat just about everything.

To understand what’s happening when you skip meals, 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 you eat the food gets burnt creating loads of toxins in your system and slowing down your metabolism and nutrients’ absorption.

Pitta Dosha Ayurvedic Weight Loss Diet

The most important adjustment you could make in your 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, and healthy cooking oils, including coconut oil. These lubricate and help repair your stomach lining, usually damaged by hyper-acidity.

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: (the heaviest meal), have 20% cooked grains (basmati rice, whole barley, oats, quinoa), 30% proteins (chicken/turkey, shrimp, rabbit, beans), and 50% steamed/sautéed 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).
  As a late afternoon snack, try some sweet, juicy fruits like apples, cherries, mangoes, melons, plums, or dark 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 flavors 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 hyper-acidity. 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 completely throw your Pitta dosha out of balance.

Supplements for Pitta Dosha

The most effective ones are:

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

NOTE: if you have high blood pressure or are retaining water, 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 Vata diet or Kapha diet.

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