New Delhi, December 5 (Udaipur Kiran) – Weight loss is not a one or two-day trick, but a natural process of balancing the digestive fire within the body. Ayurveda says that obesity increases when our digestive fire becomes weak and food is not digested properly. In such cases, toxins start accumulating in the body and later get collected as fat, leading to weight gain. Therefore, the real treatment is to correct the digestive fire, balance the daily routine and improve eating habits.

Charak Samhita also clearly states that excessive sweetness, laziness, oversleeping and irregular lifestyle increase fat in the body. Obesity does not happen due to one reason, but due to many small wrong habits, such as eating something or the other throughout the day, staying awake till late night, drinking cold drinks, spending time sitting and taking too much stress.

For weight loss, first of all, drinking lukewarm water with lemon on an empty stomach in the morning speeds up digestion and makes the body feel light. Taking Triphala at night removes old toxins and strengthens the digestive fire. Warm natured items like turmeric, black pepper and dry ginger are beneficial in food. Daily 30-minute walk, half-stomach meals and balanced fasting are considered golden rules of weight loss in Ayurveda. Talking about diet, porridge or barley water in the morning, light food like moong dal and vegetables in the afternoon, and very light food at night, that too two hours before sleeping.

Some easy remedies strengthen the digestive fire, such as a little ginger-salt before meals, cumin-coriander-fennel decoction once a day, amla or aloe vera juice in the morning, pippali-honey and lemon ginger tea. These make the body light from within and increase metabolism. Getting up early in the daily routine, yoga-pranayama, reducing screen time and 7-8 hours of sleep is extremely important. Surya Namaskar, Kapalbhati, Bhastrika and abdominal yoga asanas rapidly reduce fat.

Light detox once a week like only soup, fruits or coconut water resets the body, although very strict dieting can cause harm instead of benefit.

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