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Ten Simple Ayurveda Tips for Life Long Health
“Do We Care Better for Our Cars Than our Bodies?” Strangely enough I really think so. We are concerned more about being stranded on the freeway somewhere than stranding our selves in the hospital with heart attack someday. We do not fill the car with wrong type of gasoline but yet we will fill our own body with wrong types of food. We give our car a break while it is in the garage for regular tune ups. But we do not take a break even while eating meals. And then we wonder in a few years, in spite of eating healthy, how we could land a disease. Today I want to share ten simple Ayurveda Tips to change the lifestyle for better health and avoid chronic illnesses.
You are doing our best to live right to keep your body healthy and avoid illnesses. My goal is to augment your effort by making some suggestions, perhaps add missing links. Following are ten simple Ayurveda tips based on ancient wisdom of natural wellness:
- Drink a glass of warm to hot water (not coffee), first thing when you wake up.
- Get to know your Body Constitution. Each person is uniquely built with physio-psychological constitution. Based on your constitution, certain foods and activities are more suitable for you than others. To assess your body type, please subscribe below to the FREE “simple secrets to good health” mini course and discover your unique body constitution.
- Select foods according to your Body Constitution. Food is the first medicine for the body. Clean eating with right foods help prevent your body from becoming sick in the first place. From an Ayurvedic consultation, receive a personalized Ayurvedic Diet and Lifestyle chart with list of recommended herbs, spices, and foods as per your body constitution .
- Make eating a ritual. Take the time to make it light and relaxed time while offering food with love to your body. Do mindful eating. Connect with your body and mind while enjoying every bite full of tasty flavors and nutrition. Disconnect from work, internet, TV, and other interruptions. Studies have shown when we are distracted with these activities while eating, you gain weight by unknowingly eating more food and/or you absorb less nutrition from your food, even if the food is full of nutrition. Allow your mind to relax and enjoy!
- After a meal for optimum digestion, your stomach should be half full with “solids”, one quarter full with liquid, and one quarter empty with “air”.
- Allow 4-5 hours in between meals. When possible eat at least one meal per day with a family or a group of friends.
- Drink very little water with the meals. Wait about 45 minutes and drink good amount of water. NEVER drink ICED water/drinks just before, during, and right after the meals. Iced water compromises your digestive fire leading to slow or inefficient digestion.
- Do at least once per week Oileation (Ayurvedic Massage)of your body as per your Body Constitution. Ayurvedic Massage is a loving application of oil all over your body with light massaging motions. Leave the oil to soak in for 25 minutes before taking a shower. This nourishes your body while slows down aging. Ayurvedic massage oil is available here.
- Exercising 2-3 times a week. This is nothing new; however, I want to include this for some of us who needs extra motivation and reminders. In my gym, I regularly meet some people who can barely walk but they are there doing their thing. I call them just pure inspiration for the rest of us. Aerobics, sports, walking, yoga, weights, and other resistance exercises are all good. Choose your exercises as per your body condition and your goals.
- Form a daily and weekly routine! The MOST important part is- STICK to it
Imagine Implementing the Small Ayurveda Tips & Receiving Big Health Benefits
Imagine your life if you took care of your body, “your vehicle for your lifetime journey”, with these simple ayurveda tips. You would live with vibrant health; creating meaningful healthy relationships; bursting with energy while undertaking your responsibilities; enjoying life to its full potential; and creating health in others by spreading happiness to every one who surrounds you. You would prevent chronic illnesses like obesity, diabetes, anxiety disorders, depression, and fatal illness like cancer. Economically, you would save loads of money by NOT needing pharmaceutical drugs. And let’s not forget, you would avoid the dangerous side effects that come from using synthetic drugs. Natural Ayurveda tips offer true preventive care and promote health and wellness naturally.
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Simple Secret to Health: You Are What You Digest
Health and wellness subject matter is my passion. In my years of practice I have discovered one simple secret you are what you digest! Your wellness plan must be designed around your unique mind body constitution by selecting foods, herbs, & spices that favor your uniqueness. Here the right eating to promote health takes on a whole new meaning. You can read more about my professional services and products on achieving true wellness at workplace and in your life.
One size doesn’t fit all so what may be healthy food for one person may not be so good for another. The old saying “you are what you eat” needs to alter a bit to “you are what you digest”. To have an optimum digestion, you must eat foods suitable to your body constitution. In Ayurvedic context- it is selecting and eating foods to suit your Physio-psychological (mind-body) constitution. The Ayurvedic intelligence stems from an age old proven Natural Medical system of Ayurveda. Ayurveda (ai-ur-veyda) is health management system. See more Ayurveda tips for good health in another article.
Here I am focusing on the physical body and how to keep it balanced and healthy. I’ve put together a free mini-course outlining simple ways to help you get started quickly. Everybody is built with unique Mind-body constitution. You must discover yours.
This FREE course is designed to teach you the essentials of Ayurvedic science; what is body constitution, how many different types are there, how to take a test to assess your body constitution. Right eating means not only selecting healthy foods but those healthy foods that are favorable for your unique body constitution digestive ability. So on this basis, you are what you digest.
In this FREE ‘Mini’ Course, You’ll Learn:
- The #1 most overlooked factor when it comes to preventive care and promoting health (balance) in body systems…
- 3 dominant energies that pulsate in every one of us and are present in different proportions…
- What makes you and every one else unique…
- What does balance means in a person and what is balance for one person may not be a balance for another person…
- How to determine and assess your own unique Mind-Body constitution
- One size doesn’t fit all. You must select suitable foods as per your Mind-Body constitution type- you are what you digest…
I would highly recommend you to take this first step to lifetime wellness. Right eating as per Ayurveda promotes optimum digestion which is a cornerstone of preventive care. This is a foundation for building and promoting health and true wellness naturally. Should you decide to access this free mini course, you will receive the first lesson immediately via email and followed by a new lesson everyday till the last lesson is delivered.
Be Well,
Rakesh Sethi, BS, CAHP
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Health Benefits of Ginger and How Much to Take Everyday
Most of us know of ginger but have you ever wondered about the health benefits of ginger? And I certainly hope many of you are already consuming daily in your diet. If you are not then after reading this article, you will be inspired to take it DAILY. For those who are already using it will find numerous health benefits of ginger in this article. Wellness coaches in USA are quickly learning about ginger and suggesting it to their clients. And why not, any person desiring right eating would take this to heart and develop recipes with it or order food with ginger. Ginger has been part of food & medicine in eastern cultures for thousands of years.
Almost anyone can take ginger and more than likely will have some benefit in some part of their body systems. Take a look at the following several health benefits of ginger:
- Increases circulation, supports heart health, generally benefits the cardiovascular system, and improves serum triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, & VLDL –cholesterol levels. It lowers blood fats, reduces LDL oxidation, (lower cholesterol without drugs) and prevents arterial plaque. Note the improvements were enhanced when the ginger was combined with garlic.
- Promotes digestion, cures upset stomach, reduces or eliminate motion sickness and nausea. Ginger facilitates in movement of food through the GI tract and helps in empting the stomach in less time. This is a great benefit for people feeling abdominal discomfort, flatulence, burping, and bloating.
- Reduces pain in arthritis, especially osteoarthritis, when used topically along with massaging cold & non lubricated joints with sesame oil
- Reduces phlegm in the lungs and comforts during colds
- Eliminates morning sickness in pregnant women just by taking 1000-1500mg of dry ginger
- Reduces or eliminates pain in joints and carpel tunnel simply by wrapping the area with strips of cooked fresh ginger and leaving it overnight
- Burns toxins in the GI tract and increases secretion of digestive juices. It is your daily detoxifier and digestive aid
As you can tell from the above listed health benefits of ginger, it is a very economical home remedy for common ailments plus keeps the body systems toxin free and prevents diseases from happening in the first place- excellent defense from a very tasty herb.
How much & how to take it?
Take up to 3000 mg of per day in ginger capsules. Fresh grated ginger is more effective but powder will work as well in your recipes. Or you can grate 1 teaspoon ginger and make 3 cups of tea and enjoy thru the day.
If you liked this article then biggest compliment you can give is by sharing it with others and spreading wellness. Always keep in mind Ayurveda health tips along with right eating offer preventive care and promote health and wellness naturally. Be Well!
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What is Unconditional Love and Its Role in Our Relationships?
What is unconditional love? Simple as it may appear, it is perhaps the most misunderstood & misused phrase in our relationships. Unconditional love is a benevolent feeling that emerges from deeper level of our Consciousness (our life coach) for all of creation- rocks, plants, animals, human beings, etc., regardless of their shape, size, color, nature, or actions in the nature. 
It is because every one of us has the same Universal Consciousness that is pervading through all life & nonlife forms connecting all of creation to ONE source.
Observe nature & you will find Universal Consciousness expressing Itself differently through each entity in creation depending upon what “clothing” it’s wearing and what role it’s playing in the nature. Thus the Universal Consciousness is conditioned by the “clothing” it is wearing. Once we understand this truth, living with unconditional love for all forms & beings becomes not only easy but brings peace to us as well.
What is unconditional love in our relationships with other beings and creation around us? Well, let me try to answer this by telling an interesting mythological story. A very long time ago a king cobra snake ruled good middle portion of the forest by using his wits & scary tactics. Most people & animals were scared of him and tried to take different trails to avoid confronting him. One day the snake overheard some people travelling thru the forest about a great saint. Out of curiosity, snake decided to go and listen to what this saint had to say. Snake didn’t want to create any trouble around so many people so he hid himself between the rocks where he could still clearly hear the saint. The saint spoke truths about of Universal Consciousness, unconditional love, and peace. The message resonated with snake and from that day forward he decided to change his behavior towards his fellow beings. The snake started to approach all passing through with politeness & affection but much to his dismay he met with rejection and even got stones thrown at him. Injured, bruised, & with tears in skin, snake was lying on the side of a trail when the saint just happen to pass thru there. Saint asked the snake what happened. After listening to the snake’s story, saint clarified that first you must know who you are before jumping into showing unconditional love to just anyone.
The story makes a point, even though unconditional love resonates at our consciousness level, we can not relate unconditionally at the physical level. First we must know our own conditioning, what “clothing” are we wearing, and then be aware of what “clothing” a person or creation in front of us is wearing. So while the Loving can and should be unconditional, the Relating at physical level can not be unconditional. If we do not follow this nature’s rule we will be battered, bruised, abused, and left in misery in our relationships.
One Notable Exception– This rule doesn’t apply to a Self-realized person. Such a person has merged & become one with consciousness. His thoughts & actions are no longer conditioned by his own (ego) body mind & intellect. Loving & relating for such a person has transcended all physical conditioning & is seen & felt by others simply as pure consciousness. Examples are Christ, Buddha, & a few others.
So before we reach the Self-realized state, what can we do?
As long as we engage in life thru our physical body, mind, and intellect, we see ourselves as separate & distinct from others and our outward actions are conditioned with our desires and ego. Inadvertently, this makes the relating with the outer physical world conditional as well. Therefore, for now we must utilize our Unconditional Love (life coach) to guide our actions to be selfless and harmless to others and environment around us. As a result, one can imagine harmonious relationships, peace, and promoting health & wellness in their lives.
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How to Make a Simple Miracle Drink w/ Carrots Health Benefits?
Simple Recipe: One Apple, One Carrot, One Potato equal in weight to carrot, and ¼ teaspoon fresh ginger
Thoroughly wash, chop with the skin intact into pieces, and put them into the juicer or high speed blender (like Blendtec or Vitamix) and immediately drink the juice. For more refreshing taste, you can add some lime or lemon. Besides being tasteful & refreshing, carrots health benefits are numerous:
- Prevents cancer cells to develop & restrain their growth (also see Cancer Preventing herb article)
- Prevent liver, kidney, pancreas disease and it can cure ulcer as well
- Strengthen the lungs, prevent heart attack, and high blood pressure
- Strengthen the immune system
- Good for the eyesight, eliminate red and tired eyes or dry eyes
- Helps to eliminate muscle aches & pain from physical exhaustion
- Detoxify, assist bowel movement & eliminate constipation. Therefore it will make skin healthy & LOOK more radiant. It is God-sent for acne problem (also see Cleanse/Detoxify article)
- Lessen menstrual pain
- Assist Hay Fever Sufferer from Hay Fever attack
- Very effective in accelerating weight loss (also see Weight Loss article)
Highly nutritious and absorbs easily! You will notice a difference in your energy and improvement in your immune system after 2-4 weeks of usage.
How Often and When to Get Most out of Carrots Health Benefits:
For best results, drink it twice per day. Once, first thing in the morning and then before your meal (use it as an appetizer). If you choose once per day, go with the first thing in the morning.
YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE! TRY IT- IT DOES NOT COST MUCH MONEY TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND WELLNESS NATURALLY (with this simple miracle drink of carrots health benefits)!
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How to Detoxify Body Naturally in 7 Days?
Vacation and holidays are fun! But we all know when we have over eaten, over drunk, over enjoyed, over done and all at the expense of our body. Our body goes out of balance (health) and if we continue such a life style, we feel lethargic, dull, lack of energy, low appetite, gas, bloating, constipation, and we gain weight. Just like we do oil change & tune up for our car, now is good time to do “oil change”, that is to detoxify body naturally.
Your body, overtime, has accumulated toxins and body systems functions are compromised and if you do not detoxify whole body now, you may land yourself some illness. If you have come to this point, taking a short cut with vitamins or energy drinks is not the answer. In fact your “digestive fire” is already compromised & you may be harming your body by putting unnecessary doses of vitamins plus throwing your hard earned money down the drain. So at this time go with the total body cleanse and also as a general maintenance to do a whole body cleanse is good for you.
Let me show you exactly how you can detoxify body naturally in 6 to 7 days gently following simple steps:
1. Start first day with ONLY 32 oz. – 48 oz. of warm to hot water in the morning. Have warm light vegetable soup for lunch. Or if you can manage with fruits only choose cooked apple or pear or uncooked grapefruit or pomegranate. In the afternoon have only fresh Ginger tea. Evening meal if you can skip great, if not, have only Moong lentil soup. Rest & avoid exercising on this day.
2. For the next 5-6 days:
- Have warm light easy to digest foods like chicken broth soups, rice & Moong lentil soups, or other light meals
- Drink hot fresh cut ginger tea 3 cups and only hot water through out the day
- Take 1000mg Turmeric (2x500mg capsules) after each meal w/ warm water
- Take 2000mg Triphala (2x1000mg tablets) Not after dinner but 1 hour before bedtime w/ warm water
3. AVOID the following during these days:
Icy cold drinks, Fried foods, Red Meats, Cheese, Heavy creamy & sugary foods, Raw vegetables, Cold foods
Follow the above steps and you will detoxify body naturally of accumulated toxins in a matter of days. No shock & aw or synthetic chemicals- all natural gentle process. If you do not see enough improvement in 7 days, extend it for 3 more days. A good measure is – Your energy level & robust appetite will return.
For more gradual and gentle detoxification, use herbal formula Eliminate Toxins.
Caution: Do NOT detoxify body, if pregnant. Also if you have any medical condition, check with your physician before starting any procedure.
Note: If you like, you can practice “mini” version of the detox by following the above steps EXCEPT rather than five to six days in step two, do this step for only for two days. Use this mini version to detoxify body naturally more frequently (every or every other month) for it to be effective. Consult with your Ayurveda practitioner how often to detoxify the body.
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Rakesh Sethi
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Turmeric Health Benefits in Preventing Cancer and How to Use?
Turmeric health benefits are numerous and is considered one the most valuable cancer preventing foods and an herbal medicine. Turmeric brings strong medicinal antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, immune enhancing, and detoxifying properties. Just about half a teaspoon (2000mg) of turmeric consumed per day in the diet regularly could eliminate DNA damage characteristic of aiding cancer development. But preventing cancer is not all; there are many other significant turmeric health benefits in the following conditions:
1. Treats skin inflammation diseases like eczema, psoriasis as it is cooling herb, removes excessive heat and cleanses liver.
2. Treats indigestion, dyspepsia, suppresses inflammation in stomach, prevents & treats ulcerations of all kinds including gastritis & colitis (Irritable Bowl Syndrome).
3. Helps tremendously with the hemorrhoids pain & skin inflammation.
4. Helps curb bleeding & other fluid excesses and pulls in prolapsed tissues so it is good for “wet” macular degeneration plus works for other inflammatory conditions in the eye.
5. Turmeric is also a blood purifier. It is anti-diabetic and will help normalize blood sugar and cholesterol levels.
6. It is a mild menstrual regulator and the best spice for woman to move stagnant blood.
7. Turmeric is also known as a respiratory herb. It reduces cough and sinus congestion when gargled or consumed in boiled milk. Again its anti inflammatory properties reduce sore throat and combined with its anti bacterial properties it can be used to treat bronchitis. It is also good for asthma.
You can not afford to be without turmeric health benefits in your diet. By the way USA is the largest importer of Turmeric from India (largest producer of Turmeric). US uses Turmeric almost exclusively to add yellow color to mustard. Please do not start consuming excessive amount of mustard in your diet. I would recommend following ways to take in with your daily routine:
Half a teaspoon (2000mg) in tea or milk
or if easier, take 1-2 organic Turmeric capsules (500mg each) after lunch & dinner
Caution: Do NOT use if pregnant or have Bile duct blockage
If you are not using turmeric in your diet then you are missing numerous turmeric health benefits. I would suggest to get some new recipes start including as part of your cancer prevention foods diet. If you liked this article then biggest compliment you can give is by sharing the wellness with others and spread this awareness. Be Well!
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Simple Mind Cleanse Techniques to Reduce Stress
If we don’t brush & floss everyday, gingivitis develops creating fowl smell & gum disease. Similarly, if we do not perform mind cleanse everyday, we risk mental sickness. You see mind is like a river flowing with full of new thoughts and emotions every second of the day. Myriad of thoughts & emotions, rational or irrational, just hang around and pollute the mind “river.”These thoughts & emotions must be processed daily otherwise they block the mind “river” and cause stagnation resulting accumulation of brain trash or stress. Once we clear the blockages, we reduce stress.
The challenge is to identify which thought & emotion is rational and which is irrational. This is where our Intellect has to jump in and start earning its keep. Our Intellect must separate the crazy irrational thoughts & emotions and immediately discard or reject them. If for some reason our Intellect is compromised, we will mistakenly accept irrational thoughts and start to live with them creating confusion, conflicts, stress, and basically brain trash. These thoughts need to be “flushed” or “metabolized”.
I suggest use the following techniques for mind cleanse & to reduce stress:
1. We must keep our Intellect sharp and available. Always be aware of your intellectual state. Note the Intellect is not sharp & available when we are angry, depressed, or under the influence of alcohol, drugs, etc. Our thinking ability gets warped or completely stops. Become free of these influences first. It is impossible to reduce stress when the very tool, your intellect, that helps you “flush” brain trash is not available to you.
2. Watch out for the Ego! When a compulsive thought of anger, depression or sensual craving comes in mind, our self-centered conditioning & Ego loves to give attention to it. Mind you a thought has NO power of its own. All the power is in the attention we give. So break undivided attention to selfish & destructive thought by reciting your favorite Mantra. Once the Mantra takes hold, connection between the thought & your attention is broken. The idea here is to have something to break the attention and I have found any Mantra (your favorite) will do the trick and reduce stress. You feel light and your mind becomes available for other tasks.
Remember, it is the good old 80/20 rule. Only 20% of the thoughts are worth paying attention to and the other 80% must be quickly rejected. Once we get rid of the 80%, we have more of our selves available for the real 20% that make a difference in our lives. Thus we accomplish in our life what we really need, keep our mind cleanse of clutter and reduce stress.
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Can Health Care Reform and Preventive Care Fix our System?
Our health care system is broken, probably an understatement. The cost we pay under this broken system is with both our health and our wallet. Are we getting our money’s worth? Perhaps yes, in disease management but not in preventive care and health management. With health care reform and preventive care included in our health plans, we can move towards managing health.
However, we live with a belief that health care system is responsible for managing our health. I believe this fundamental belief has to change.
In order for health care reform and preventive care to work, our health attitudes must shift to take on personal responsibility of managing our own health just as we manage our financial health. How we approach our health has to change?
Take the following approach:
- Take personal responsibility- you are your first health coach.
- Practice preventive care with right diet & life style suitable for your unique mind-body.
- If you are healthy you don’t need medicine. However to stay healthy, if you choose NOT to change your unhealthy diet and life style then you have NO use for medicine.
- Don’t make the problem worse by waiting and try to find a magic pill. There is none. Preventive care is the magic pill.
Unless we change our Health Attitudes, any health care reform changes we make to the health care system in United States will not work. Let me explain:
Let us suppose we have the following health care options under the health care insurance plans:
- Alternative medicine- natural preventive health care, for example Ayurveda, Acupuncture, Yoga, Meditation etc.
- Integrative approach- alternative combined with current medical model.
- Conventional medicine- current medical model
Without changing our health attitudes, we will continue to live as we live today and after becoming sick expect the medical system to “fix” us. This means we will continue to use the last option#3. Perhaps it is too late to use preventive care options 1 or 2. Note the costs are significantly less when we use options 1 & 2.
So it seems, even if we offer preventive care options under health insurance, people will not use it till we educate them to shift their health attitudes. So we need to do both: offer all 3 options under the health insurance plans and also change our health attitudes.
Let us also clarify on what is true preventive care?
Most of us think that having regular physicals, mammograms, & other check-ups is a preventive care. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY WRONG. These are just screening tools to see, if your preventive care practice is working or not. Preventive care is a step before this step.
Preventive care is selecting right foods, life style, exercising according to your unique mind-body constitution. We are all unique and one size does not fit all. So we must discover what foods & type of life style is more suitable for us. If we think of food as medicine, we perhaps will not need any other medicine.
Our current system catches people as they are just about to fall off a cliff and cost is just too high to “save” people at this juncture.
Place preventive care (included under health insurance) at the front end and we will have fewer people falling off the cliff. Savings will be tremendous to our medical system. It is our, for profit, health care system that will realize tremendous economic benefits. But I do not see them making big strides in this direction. Well, it is my health and I not going to wait for them while I pay with my health. I need to make my own health care reform by shifting my health attitudes today. This shift in personal health attitudes is an absolutely necessary step along with health care reform and preventive care to fix health care system in United States.
You can be an instrument of change. Share this article with others. This is our chance to change how we approach our health with combining true health care reform and preventive care. Contact me with your questions & feedback.
Be Well!
Rakesh Sethi
PS: First step in your health care reform and preventive care is to start Eating Right Foods as per your unique Mind-Body constitution. Learn this know-how in FREE “simple secrets to good health with right eating” mini course.
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Right Eating and Herbs Help You Lose Weight Naturally and Fast
You will discover here how to lose weight naturally and fast using natural and less expensive remedies you can practice at home. Before discussing the usual diet & exercise for losing weight, I want to introduce the term Body Constitution. This is an important intelligence that will help you understand what are your weight gain and weight loss tendencies and work with them.
You and everyone else is put together with their own unique body constitution. For our purpose, we need to discuss 3 different body constitution types but focus on the one that has the highest probability of gaining and trouble losing weight:
- One body constitution type typically light weight if gains weight can loose it quickly.
- The second body constitution typically medium weight, good muscles but does not gain weight easily.
- The third body constitution type typically large gains weight quickly in pounds but looses slowly in ounces.
It is the third body constitution type that has inherent tendency to be bigger & heavier than the other two types. The standard medical height & weight guidelines do not apply to this third body type. However, if you fall in the third type, no worries; this in itself does not place you at higher health risk. But because of the inherent body tendencies, you will need to be more vigilant about weight gain, especially as you get up in the years. Typical health risks for this body type are diabetes, high BP, and high Cholesterol.
How to Lose Weight Naturally and Fast Techniques?
Before starting, I want you to ask yourself at what weight you feel full of energy, vivacious, and good about yourself. This is the optimum weight for you and you should try to maintain yourself within + or – 4 pounds of this weight. Follow the do’s & don’t’s of lose weight naturally and fast guidelines that can be easily used at home.
1. Don’t’s- what to avoid?
- Ice cold drinks with or before meal (No sodas)
- Raw vegetables, salads etc. as a meal or in large proportions
- Heavy fried foods and red meats (do not eat anything doesn’t come out in 24 hours or less)
- Cheese, Sweets, ice cream, & sugary temptations
- Alcohol (If you must small glass of wine 1-2 times a week)
- Overeating
2. Do’s- what to eat?
- Warm cooked foods
- Oats, Barley, Quinoa, Basmati Rice, & Millets (No other grains)
- Fish, Chicken in moderation, substitute legumes (rich in protein) for meat
- All vegetables especially include Bitter Guard (Bitter Melon) 2-3 times per week. Download recipes from internet for cooking Bitter Guard. Add ginger in almost every meal to your taste. Add pinch of red pepper to your taste, if you can tolerate.
- Only sunflower seeds (avoid all other nuts)
- Berries, grapefruit, pomegranate, apples
- Use light oils like sunflower
- Drink 2-3 cups of Ginger tea per day
- Do mindful eating & listen to your body when full. Make the middle meal your biggest meal of the day.
- Keep Fast once per week with only one light meal in the middle of the day
3. Yoga Postures (optional but will additionally help you lose weight naturally and fast)
Pranayama, Sun Salutation, Most forward or backward bend poses, Cobra, Downward Dog, Upward Dog, and Shoulder Stand poses. Start slowly if you are not doing any exercises then increase frequency & intensity. If you are doing some other form of exercise, just continue that. Do exercise 3 to 4 times per week.
4. Herbal Supplements
After dinner & lunch take 1000mg of Triphala and 1000mg of Guggulu.
Imagine in 4 short weeks you would lose weight naturally and fast, improve your health, appearance, live at your suitable weight, and cleanse your body of toxins.
NOTE: After reaching your suitable weight, continue maintaining with taking Triphala but stop taking Guggulu.
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