Expert Author Erica Mueller
A society that constantly overwhelms us using the next best diet, it can be difficult to remain focused and know what's actually beneficial and effective for healthy weight loss.
Stress is probably the most significant results of weight gain in our society, which means that final thing we need is to panic about that!
Is there a way to lose weight and keep it off-without losing your sanity and jumping from diet to diet, only to relapse and then start the cycle again? There is-and it has proven to road-tested for the last 5,000 years.
Ayurveda, an ancient system of medicine developed in India, is the sister science to yoga. It seeks to avoid disease and promote health, balance, and longevity through simple guidelines that follow the natural rhythms of nature, the seasons, time of day.
Here are 5 Ayurveda ideas that can naturally and gently guide you toward holistic and holistic and healthy weight loss, without using the chemicals, processed food, or extreme diets.
Drink a large glass of warm water with organic lemon first thing in the morning. This boosts the entire digestive system and gives you a fresh start to your day.
Exercising enough to break a sweat is suggested as a daily morning practice for healthy weight loss; 45 to 60 minutes is ideal, but even 30 will do. Find an activity you can do for your entire life, or at least for the foreseeable future.
Find five to 10-or more-minutes of peace and relaxation early morning. Mind/body practices like yoga and meditation, elicit a relaxation response in the body. This helps to alleviate stress, one of the main causes of weight gain. It also puts us in a more mindful and present state of mind, helping us be better decision-makers as our day proceeds.
Eat three meals each day, with no snacking. Food is a fast-burning fuel, and when the body receives a continuous fuel line, it forgets how to burn fat. Have breakfast, a medium-sized meal, between 7:30 and 9:00 am., your largest meal, between 11:00 am and 2:00 pm. Have dinner, your smallest meal, between 5:30 pm and 8:00 pm, when your digestion is weakest.
Experience all six tastes. In Ayurveda, we recognize six tastes: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent. Be sure to incorporate all six tastes into your daily diet. Sweet, sour and salty tastes are anabolic, or building, in nature and need the pungent, bitter, and astringent tastes, which are catabolic, or burning in nature, to balance them out. Too many sweet, sour, and salty tastes, as seen in the quality American diet, may cause fast weight gain. Foods that are bitter, which can include leafy greens; pungent, which can include spicy chili peppers; and astringent, such as pomegranate seeds, offer healthy counterpoints to the building nature of the sweet, sour, and salty tastes.