2008 July | Weight Loss Ways

Few simple and quick tips to keep your body in shape

Jul 31, 2008 Comments Off

While you must remember the basic principles of leading a healthy lifestyle, in this article we are presenting some more easy ways to lose weight and get a shapely body. The basic principles for a healthy life include having proper nutrition in the form of proteins, fiber, carbohydrates, healthy fats, vitamins and minerals; drinking lots of water daily; having enough sound sleep; and performing cardio exercises and weight training exercises. Here are a few other tips for a quick weight loss:

Tip # 1- Lean Muscles Buildup:The metabolism rate of the body increases because of lean muscle building, especially in the large muscle groups like legs, chest, back etc. This results in your muscle tissue burning more calories than your fat tissues. Muscle tissues are known to enhance the body metabolism, even when the body is at rest, resulting in continuous calorie burning process.

Tip # 2- Do Not Skip Your Meals: Skipping your meals drops the metabolism rate of your body. The body metabolism quickly adjusts itself to your skipping meals and starts storing fat when you eat. The best way to avoid it is to have frequent meals (at least 6) every day starting with breakfast - the most important meal of the day.

Tip # 3- Do Not Fickle Away from a Healthy Routine: To lead a healthy lifestyle and maintain it that way forever is a consistent effort. It is simply not possible to work out your body for a specific timeframe only for a special occasion and reap its results for the rest of your life. You will have to be regular and strict with your weight loss plan for a great body.

The way forward is to look for a plan that suits your body to shed the extra pounds off your belly and help you building a lean muscle quickly. Many of the programs however talk about workouts affecting the target areas instead of focusing on low-calorie, low-carb diets.

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Losing weight the ayurvedic way

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According to Charak Samhita of Ayurveda, obesity if one of the eight different types of conditions that are prone to disease. Obesity is a physical state or condition where excessive deposition of fat takes place in the adipose tissue.

Excessive fats add to straining your body parts such as heart, kidneys, liver and joints. Therefore overweight people run the risk of coronary thrombosis, high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, gout and other diseases. Prime causes of obesity are overeating, irregular eating practices, and abusing rules of eating or mixing non-compatible food items in one meal.

Ensuring a controlled eating habit and avoiding the causes of weight gain can largely influence your weight loss mission and help you get rid of obesity, almost permanently.

Paying attention especially to our eating pattern can reveal how unhealthy our eating habits have become. Skipping breakfast, eating a hurried lunch and on the go, and ending your day with a sumptuous dinner, often too close to bed time.

Ayurveda claims that the digestive agni or fire in our stomach which cooks the food we eat and converts it to rasa, the nutritional essence for building healthy cells and tissues, is best active during noon hours. Hence Ayurvedic teachings encourage a heavy meal for lunch.

A typical ayurvedic vegetarian lunch includes:

Two to three servings of cooked vegetables
One serving of a lentil dish
A whole grain with chutney (made out of fruits and vegetables with added spice)
Lassi or buttermilk – a beverage made by blending fresh yogurt with pure water

Breakfast and dinner should consist of easily digestible foods. For breakfast, have a sweet juicy fruit with some warm cooked cereal. For dinner, eat any light one-dish meals or substitute it with lentil or any other vegetable soups. For mid-morning and afternoon snack, a small handful of soaked and blanched almonds or walnuts are best to have nutritional nourishment.

Following the above diet patter, you shall never feel your digestive system being taxed beyond capacity. With this diet patter, your body skillfully metabolizes the food you eat.

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Achieving the ideal body weight the Ayurvedic way

Jul 23, 2008 1 Comment »

Ayurvedic remedies are practical and patient-friendly for any kind of health problems. Few of the common suggestions from Ayurveda can be highly beneficial in your mission of weight loss.

Never deprive yourself of food: Fasting, starving, skipping foods are nothing but sure shot ways of gaining your lost weight in no time. Instead, eating three times a day starting with a small breakfast, a hearty lunch and a simple dinner is ideal. Including healthy mid-morning or mid-afternoon snack can take care of your intermittent hunger. However, the quantity of your food consumption at a meal, as per Ayurveda, should not be more than what you can comfortably hold in both your palms and Ayurveda also suggest that you should get up from the table before you feel satiated or completely full.

Three key factors play a vital role in your weight management:

Metabolizing what you eat
Eliminating the wastes competently
Allowing the digestion system to get breaks between meals.

Fasting will only upset your metabolism, as it will not have anything to ‘work on’ during your fasting period. Same is true for skipping meals – the digestive system is deprived of its function and since it will not have anything to work on, its function will not pick up efficiency when you do eat. Digestive system gets used to the time you supply it with some food and on days when you skip food or go on fasting, it is void of its usual activity. Finally handling your cravings for food is a tricking task but is not impossible to achieve success in this area. Educating your taste buds to gradually accept only all those things that are good for you and eliminating all those that harm the body can definitely help you in staying healthy and contented. Resisting temptations only results in overindulgence of the things that are restricted.

Ayurveda suggests a lot of other ways to maintain your ideal weight and keep you body healthy and in shape. May be few of the forthcoming articles will have more suggestions from Ayurveda on weight loss.

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