The Ayurvedic Diet

 

The topic of diet always has a somewhat bland or compulsive "taste". Of course, there's no way around the fact that if you want to lose weight, you'll have to eat fewer calories than you consume. This generally causes you to feel hungry during a diet. This is quite normal and results from the fact that your body has become accustomed to taking more calories – otherwise you wouldn't have developed the obesity you want to get rid of now.

The vast majority of common diets are based on reducing a certain proportion of essential nutritional components – fat, carbohydrates or proteins are severely limited, which can, in fact, lead to pleasing results on the body scales within a relatively short period of time. However, each of these reduction diets has drawbacks:

an essential nutritional component is removed from the body: deficiency symptoms can result.

the yo-yo effect: the body recovers what it lacks in a healthy reaction after the end of the diet. Often this happens in an excessive reaction, i.e. They weigh more a few weeks after the diet than before the diet.

Reduction diets achieve their effect mainly through the loss of body water or muscle mass, but not of body fat. The essential objective is therefore not achieved at all.

From an Ayurvedic point of view, it may not make sense to deprive the body of some of the basic ingredients of the diet. Our food nourishes us and our food is to nourish us so that our bodies and minds may remain healthy. If we greatly reduce essential basic ingredients in our diet, this cannot be healthy.

Another approach in modern diet programs is to simply reduce high-calorie diets. This is usually done through an elaborate calorie count ("weight-watchers"), which means that you have to think about how many points or calories you are currently absorbing before eating. Through group meetings, a "social factor" is integrated into the weight loss program, thereby increasing positive stimulation.

Although there are no major concerns about undersupply of the body in this form of diet, the almost compulsive preoccupation with calories can lead to a natural relationship with the diet, and the social factor is only effective as long as one attends the (paid) meetings. It is also worth considering that one can only feel comfortable if one controls the collected calorie count (and possibly other parameters) extremely critically.

The Ayurvedic Diet

The word "diet" originally means a way of life and in this sense, this word is also used within an Ayurvedic diet. This means that you have to change your eating habits. The Ayurvedic diet, if you are open to new things, can give you a taste for cooking and nutrition again. According to the country of origin of Ayurveda, India, you will find in this diet many spices and forms of preparation that may not be unknown to you, but which can enrich your daily eating habits immensely.

Within the millennia-old science of Ayurveda, nutrition and digestion are an essential and central moment from the very beginning to ensure human health and the maintenance of human health. 

According to the tradition of Ayurveda, besides what we eat, it is very important also how we eat it. When eating, we often think about problems and responsibilities, so our digestive energy is channelled in a different direction. Ayurveda emphasizes the importance of proper digestion- because it is a source of health. According to Ayurveda, a balanced meal should be enriched with herbs and spices that improve taste, stimulate digestive fire, improve digestion and absorption of ingredients. With the right combination, amount of food, and certain periods of the day when food is consumed, we can maintain an internal equilibrium or even correct the imbalance that occurred during the period when we were leading an unhealthy lifestyle.

Tips:

Do not mix raw and boiled food in one meal

Do not eat freshly cooked food with leftover food

Eat slowly and chew each portion in your mouth well

Once a week, consume only liquid food to improve digestion and cleanse the intestines

Don't drink extremely cold water

Do not eat for three hours before bedtime, as it negatively affects sleep and digestion

Negative thoughts and feelings during cooking affect the quality of food, so never criticize food during cooking and consumption. 


More on the Ayurveda Diet in coming articles..