How to Lose Weight with
Vata Dosha Diet

A Vata dosha imbalance may cause you to gain weight, be always in a rush, mentally stressed, even depressed.

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

As a Vata, you are naturally slender, but that doesn’t mean that weight gain will never be a problem for you.

You might be thin all your life, and then suddenly put on weight because your metabolism has changed and your digestion has been disturbed. This creates a high level of toxicity in your body that clogs your whole system and favors weight gain.

Vata Dosha Ayurvedic Weight Loss Diet

The most important diet adjustment you could make to correct your Vata imbalance is to eat three warm, cooked meals per day - if at all possible - at the same time every day. This greatly improves your digestion and assimilation of vital nutrients.

What to Favor: according to Vata Dosha Ayurvedic weight loss, you should favor moist cooking (sautéing, steaming, & boiling instead of frying, baking, & roasting), using coconut oil or butter as the most healthy cooking oils.

Also, favor warm drinks and whole, fresh, unctuous foods that are sweet, sour, salty, slightly oily, and mildly spicy (use ginger, basil, oregano, tarragon, thyme, cumin, and fennel).

Here's an example of daily menus that will pacify your Vata body type helping your body release the extra weight:

• Breakfast: try either a sweet & creamy hot cereal meal, or one that is based on sweet fruits: warm stewed berries, apples & pears with cinnamon & nutmeg; or fresh bananas, apricots, grapes, figs, and dates
  
  
• Lunch (the heaviest meal): have 50% brown rice, couscous, or whole wheat pasta; 30% well-cooked vegetables (‘warming’ vegetables like beets, carrots, zucchini, leeks, asparagus, green beans, onions, sweet potatoes); and 20% light proteins (chicken, turkey, or seafood); as a late afternoon snack, try some halva with a hot herbal tea, or some raw & salted nuts with yogurt/kefir
  
  
• Dinner: try whole-grain bread & butter - with either a hearty vegetable soup, or a cup of warm milk and fresh cheese (cottage, ricotta, labneh, goat or cream cheese). Just before bed, have a cup of buttermilk, or warm milk with honey and a pinch of ginger for a sound, restful sleep

What to Avoid: according to Vata Dosha Ayurvedic weight loss, you should avoid cold foods, raw salads and vegetables, astringent fruits, dry snacks (crackers, cold cereal, rice cakes, popcorn).

Also, avoid fermented & aged cheese, red meat, cold cuts, cayenne/chili/sweet peppers, alfalfa sprouts, cabbage, eggplant, tomatoes, potatoes, beans, all cereals except wheat, coffee, black tea, ice cream, sugar, chocolate, iced drinks, frozen, canned, or packaged foods. Avoid flaxseed oil as well, as it activates too much your Vata dosha.

Supplements for Vata Imbalance...

...are helping you lose weight too. The most effective ones are:

• Ashwagandha (reduces physical & mental stress)
• Arjuna (reduces emotional stress)
• bee pollen & royal jelly
• spirulina & blue-green algae,
• vitamins: A, B, B12, C, D, & E
• minerals: calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, & zinc

If you're like most people, you're a combination of two doshas - a predominant Vata dosha and a secondary one - either Pitta or less likely, Kapha. Both of them influence you, depending on the whole combination's percentages. 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 Pitta dosha diet >>

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