Over Weight-3
Summary tips to reduce weight
1. Do every day
water therapy.
2. Do juice
fasting once a week.
3. Do once a
month gall-nut cleansing or castor oil cleansing.
4. Eat more
leafy and fiber rich vegetables and cut down potato consumption.
5. Eat different
varieties of whole grains (See Sakthi Kitchen).
6. Avoid white
sugar and use brown sugar, jaggery, palm jaggery and unrefined
sugars ;ile dates and raisins.
7. Every day
walk with awareness of breath (See P.B. walking in
Fire therapy).
8. As soon as
you get up from the bed, make a wish (Sankalpa) that you want reduce
weight and would support all activities to achieve the purpose.
9. Do surya
Namaskar everyday with full awareness of the breath with the thought of
having a healthy body (See Fire therapy).
10. If needed
every day before going to bed take one teaspoon of Triphala powder in
50 mil of hot water. Leave it for 5 minutes and drink it before going to
bed. This will reduce mucus in the body. Ayurveda says mucus in the body
tends to put more weight in the body. Triphala reduces mucus or kapha.
Avoid using left over, refrigerated food and also frozen food. The vitamins
are lost during re heating and the body metabolizes the reheated food
differently accumulating more mucus or kapha in the body.
Do walking consciously with breath awareness whenever and wherever possible
and spend the calories currency you have saved in the form of fat.
Hot water:
Drinking hot water one hour before and after food is a
good way to cleanse liver. Drink one tea-cup of really hot water, (drink
like drinking hot tea). The hot water will remove mucus from the intestine
and also improve digestion. You can add ginger if you need. No sugar in this
hot ginger water. Do not drink cold drinks, juices and soft drinks. Cold
will destroy the digestive juices and so will add up to weakening liver
function.
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