Natural Ayurvedic health tips for weightloss and wellbeing
Dr Prasanna Kerur Ayurvedic Consultant at the Ayush Wellness Spa, Jersey advises the following natural tips to lose weight following your summer holiday and summer indulgences.
Losing weight naturally encompasses bringing a balanced change in one’s diet, exercise and lifestyle patterns.
Start your day with “honey water” using a teaspoonful of good quality honey (Manuka) in to half a pint of still water.
Eat light with a combination of raw and freshly cooked, easily digestible food. It is important to stick to regular eating patterns and to avoid skipping meals.
Sleep is vital to keep our biological rhythm in balance, so avoid too much or too little. It is very essential to avoid sleeping in the day as that slows down the bodies metabolism and encourages weight gain.
Eat whole meal grains and lentils and avoid processed, sugary food stuff.
Use healthy herbs and spices like fresh ginger, turmeric, garlic, cumin seeds and black pepper in routine cooking that have properties to reduce bad cholesterol, protect vital organs and trigger body’s metabolism.
It is essential to keep up with regular physical exercise a variety of exercise is good such as aerobics, cycling, spinning and stretches. Natural exercise like dancing, walking, yoga and swimming are also very useful.
Try to fast for a day once a fortnight to allow the bodies systems to have a rest which will help to regularise the metabolism. Simply drink sufficient water and some freshly squeezed fruit juices and honey water on the day of your fast.
Reduce red meat, pork, shell fish, excess dairy products, excess wheat and alcohol and try to eat more fish.
Fresh juices like wheat grass, spinach, ginger and carrot with a hint of honey also aid weight loss.
Eat plenty of fresh vegetables in your daily diet and reduce excess use of potatoes, mushrooms and aubergine.
Take a teaspoonful of flaxseed oil every other day.
Use body brushing at least a couple of times a week to enhance circulation and stimulate weight loss.
Stress is a triggering factor in weight gain and learning how to recognise and cope with stress will help to improve the condition- meditation is the key!
Ayurvedic herbs like Triphala containing fruits of three myrobalans Emblica officinalis, Terminalia chebula and Terminalia bellirica are beneficial in reducing body weight naturally. Triphala when taken with honey and water takes care of whole body gently promoting internal cleansing and regularising body metabolism allowing the person to feel pure, light and revitalised.
Guggulu is another strong purifying Ayurvedic herb with lipid regulating and immune modulating properties. Guggulu is a safe natural plant extract and highly beneficial not only in reducing the excess body weight but also to lower bad cholesterol like Triglycerides and improving the HDL and LDL ratio. Guggulu’s benefits as a weight loss and fat burning agent have been well researched and documented.
Ayurvedic Treatments like Udvartana, herbal powder massage, Padaghata, “pressure by foot” massage, Abhyanga, two therapist synchronised oil massage, are all very useful in losing excess body weight.
Ayush, meaning ‘healthy life’ in Sanskrit, is the first destination spa of its kind dedicated to restoring optimum health to holidaymakers and spa seekers interested in the healing foundations of Ayurveda. As the oldest healing science known to man, Ayurveda projects the belief that to achieve true health we must be in physical, emotional and spiritual balance. The Ayush journey is therefore a personal one, starting with an authentic consultation from the in-house Indian Ayurvedic doctor to determine imbalances (dosha). Once existing doshas are realised, guests are then taken on a progressive journey interspersed with traditional therapies, professional advice and customised, hand-blended doctrines.
For enquiries or to make a reservation contact Ayush Wellness Spa, Hotel de France, St Saviour’s Road, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands JE1 7XP on 01534 614172 or visit defrance.co.uk.
