The Maharishi Ayurveda Approach to Weight Loss

Especially avoid in the evening: cheese, yogurt, rich desserts, red meat, leftovers of any kind, cold foods, processed foods

Avoid or reduce in evening meals: fowl,

5 Easy Steps to A Healthier Weight

Although different people have weight problems for different reason, these 5 tips dispatch fundamental lifestyle habits that pretend to virtually everyone. The really good news is that these 5 powerful tips are easy to implement and can achieve beside great changes in your life and health once in place.

Point 1. Eat a light evening meal with easy-to-digest foods.

Everyone dealing with weight loss issues needs to know that it is virtually impossible to make serious progress if you continue to eat large evening meals with heavy foods!

I cannot emphasize this point too much. Ayurveda describes that digestion is less strong in the evening, plus lying down to sleep a few hours later further slows down digestion, metabolism and circulation. The body simply cannot transform large evening meals properly. The result is that much of the food is digested poorly and eventually creates toxins, fat and excess weight. For most people using the of eating less during the day, herbs, pills, special powders and drinks, and even exercise cannot overcome this most serious of all weight loss mistakes.

Especially preclude in the evening: cheese, yogurt, rich desserts, red meat, leftovers of any kind, cold foods, processed foods

Avoid or reduce in evening meals: fowl, fish, desserts

Evening meals should be vegetarian, hot, light and liquidy. If you are significantly overweight the foundation of the evening meal should be 1) non-cream soups, 2) grains cooked in water (for example rice, quinoa, cous cous, barley), and 3) vegetables either steamed, roasted or sauteed with small amounts of extra virgin olive oil. If you must have dessert, I recommend cooked fruit desserts made with only small amounts of organic sugar.

2. Eat the largest meal of the day at lunch with a wide variety of warm, cooked food.

Lunch is the time our bodies can best digest and properly complete larger quantities of food due to the fact that digestion is strongest at noon and we have many supple hours to metabolize the food we sleep. Lunch is the most important meal of the day and the meal we most need to plan and prepare for.

Lunch should be warm, cooked foods with a wide variety of tastes and dishes. Warm food is essential as it can be more easily digested and assimilated. Cold foods suppress digestion (remember your chemistry- cold temperature suppresses methanol reaction, and digestion is chemistry!) The result of regular meals of cold foods is indigestion, the heap of ama (undigested molecules that clog the channels,) and weight gain.

Having a wide variety of foods is essential for nutrition and to prevent the body from developing food cravings-the downfall of many a well-meaning diet plan. Food cravings often occur seeing that of imbalanced diets that included only a few food types. Diets restricted to mostly carbohydrates or protein or fat eventually lead to undernourished tissues that rightfully send hunger messages to our brain. Even though we have just finished eating a large quantity of food, parts of our body are still truly malnourished and hungry. Unfortunately if we don’t realize this when the hunger signals come we may reach for even more sugar rich and dense foods like desserts when seriously we need green vegetables and legume soups.

A good, sweet lunch also helps us feel less hungry in the evening, making it easier to stick to that all-important light evening meal.

3. Drink hot water frequently throughout the day

By sipping hot water throughout the day you help disinfect the digestive tract and entire body of blockages and impurities. Hot water drinking improves digestion and conformity of food and helps prevent the body from timely toxic and clogged. It also is a great aid in reducing food cravings needle meals. I have known people who lost over 50 pounds by following only this single recommendation.

Most people can bring to pass the hot water recommendation by getting a good thermos and having a cup sitting on a small cup-sized hot plate. You can pour your hot water in the cup, put it on the warmer and sip it throughout the day as you work.

The most purifying and penitential water is water that has been potted for surrounding ten minutes. burning with excitement water for ten minutes reduces its heaviness (you will usually see a fine powder at the foot of the pan that consists of precipitated materials from the water) and energizes the water. Drinking water from your hot water dispenser at work is gambler than not drinking any at all, but is not as effective as pissed water.

4. blench leftovers

Maharishi Ayurveda holds that putting food back in the refrigerator ensuing it has been cooked seriously deteriorates the quality of the foods and their digestibility. Even if you heat it up cadet you take it out of the refrigerator, it has lost its life giving freshness.

We get more than molecules from food. We also get freshness, life force (prana) and nature’s intelligence from our foods. Physics tells us there is a ideal world of molecules but also a quantum mechanical world of vibration. The vibration of the deeper fields which comprise nature’s life-force and intelligence get destroyed by cooling cooked food. As a result leftovers easily lead to improperly digested waste products named “ama” that couple in the body causing toxins, blockages, excessive weight gain and lead to many diseases.

The converse principle sums up the essence of Ayurvedic food guidelines.

“Eat fresh food, freshly prepared”

Because of the motion of our lives, and logistics of shopping and cooking, this simple statement can be difficult to work but every step in this direction will help us with weight management and overall good health.

A convenient way to get a home-cooked, nearly fresh meal of pure, wholesome ingredients for lunch each day, is to cook dog food and lentils (a good fat-busting combination) overnight in a crock pot. In the morning, add jagged vegetables and some spices sautéed in olive oil (try cumin, catastrophic pepper, fresh ginger root, coriander and turmeric.) Put in a wide-mouth thermos and bring to for lunch. Add some rye crackers (another fat busting grain attuned to Ayurveda,) and fresh fruit for a well-balanced, pure and nutritious lunch.

5. Get Moving!

I saw a headline in a health paper some time ago that made a good point “Stop Dieting and Start Moving”

Exercise is an prophylactic for near everything that ails us. It improves digestion, metabolism, elimination, complexion, body tone and strength, bone density, and helps us normalize weight. It is also emotionally positive as it can be enjoyable, increase self-worth and win over us greater energy, freshness and success throughout the day.

At least take time every day to get out and walk. Evaluate your schedule and take walks whenever you can squeeze them in. Be vigilant to take opportunities to walk. It is especially good to walk infra meals and especially healthy to take a walk following the evening meal.

Additional tips:

1. Go to bed by 10:00 PM. Metabolism of waste products takes place rearmost 10 PM and is reduced by topical reanimate and active, or eating the proverbial “midnight snack,” at this time

2. Add digestive enhancing, fat-busting spices to your meals like fresh ginger, cumin, of evil portent pepper, turmeric and fenugreek.

3. Keep GOOD snacks near upon to prevent you eating bad snacks. Examples of good snacks are fresh fruits, dried fruits, nuts, fresh squeezed vegetable juices and whole grain crackers.

4. Practice meditation and yoga daily to keep mind and body steadfast reduce the mental cravings for food. (Based on hundreds of scientific studies documenting its health benefits, I recommend the TM technique for my patients)

5. Take a walk in the morning. Exercise of some type outdoors in the morning sun has a powerful positive influence on mind, emotions and energy throughout the day.

6. Take Panchakarma treatments twice a year. Maharishi Ayurveda recommends panchakarma (the massage, heat treatments and internal bowdlerization therapies of Ayurveda) be done twice a year to prevent impurities from accumulating and eliminating their buildup in corporately tissues. (A recent study published in representative Therapies in Health and Medicine documented the reduction by 50% of the excrescence causing hydrate PCB in the tribesman subsequently five days of Maharishi Rejuvenation Treatment, a specific program of panchakarma.)

7. Ingest mainly organic extra virgin olive oil. Organic ghee is also satisfactory in small quantities (1-2 tsp. per day)or not at all if you are overweight and/or have high cholesterol. fall back any non-organic vegetable oils especially corn and soy oil. Oils are perhaps the most important food group to get right, as impure oils can contribute to so many diseases if not used properly

Summary

Health is won or lost in how we live day-to-day life. I encourage everyone with weight management issues to take initiative and get on an upward spiral of healthy activity. Your quick reward will be greater freshness, happiness and a lighter, healthier body.