Hey! How are you doing with your weight management methods, you would have tried a lot, from early morning alarms to diet control, skipping parties, and not the least trying to sleep with a hungry stomach… and in this journey, you are feeling frustrated, and torn down! You may be chasing one fitness coach to another. If this is the scenario, then be assured this article will bring new light to show a proper direction to your “weight management” pledge and procedure.
1. Need for Weight Management
Let us first understand the need for weight management. One can say, in the terms of engineering, our body is a marvelous piece of a machine and, it should remain in working condition to remain fit and to work life long. Our body is designed to manage its functions at its best when everything is within the limits, so if someone is overweight, the heart requires more pumping of blood, the knees have to bear more than expected weight, and many other ailments mushroom up as we grew older. More lines can be punched here, but I do believe you already know more than me on this.
Also, you will see many ailments in even people who even have an ideal weight. Even if someone has proper weight and still feels inactive, it is because that person is probably not giving proper exercise to the body.
For our body, fitness works as fine-tuning of this machine.
2. Nature of the Body
In your journey of weight management, first of all, let me tell you, the very first aspect you should know is the nature of your body (the body type) according to the ancient science of Ayurveda. You may be thinking about how Ayurveda is related to this. This is that aspect that is never taken care of and all those weight management regime goes for a toss after some time.
Ayurveda considers three forms of nature of a person’s system or body, these are “Vaat” (Gastric nature), “Pitta” (Acidic nature), and ‘Kaff” (Cough). No one thinks about this aspect and that is why most people lose their weight management pledge.
Now take, for example, a person who has a nature of “vaat” or even say “pitta” and to control your weight you are starving, this will increase your risk of a heart attack. Even if you play a sport and you cross the level then required, this formation of gas or the acidic nature is causing harm to you which you do not know. Even, for example, if a person has a “Kaff” (Cough) nature and that person is taking shakes in excess, her or his immune system will remain hit all the time by the cough, and that person will feel congestion in the chest or common cold will be common to these people.
Here, I believe, to begin your weight management journey you are now able to understand the importance of the nature of your body. You can consult an experienced Ayurveda Doctor to know this and this will help you to plan your diet too according to the nature of your body.
Let us now understand the actual importance of weight management, just think why the top-notch people in the world invest so much time in their weight management regime because this will help you live longer and yes, people
who earn for a long have their weight management regime strong!
Once you have gone through the nature of your body as mentioned in the Ayurveda, now you are ready to begin your journey. In this journey just do not make very big targets, take small baby steps to move, slow and steady will be the merrier.
Suppose, if you wake up at, say, 08:00 AM in the morning then just do not make an alarm of 05:00 AM in the morning to go for a walk, this will not work because your body is used to waking up at 08:00 AM. Rather than, make an alarm for say 07:00 AM first and when you wake up at 07:00 AM in the morning, just go outside of your home or at a balcony wait for one or two minutes, and then you can again go to sleep till 08:00 AM! I am giving you back your sleep! Interesting! You may be thinking about how it is going to work, it will work, have patience, patience is the key! Just repeat this process for a few days. On one side you keep on reducing the alarm timing and on the other side keep on increasing the wait time at the balcony. Now say, in 15 days you have come to an alarm of 05:00 AM and when you will be waking up on the 15th day you will be waking up without the requirement of an alarm of 05:00 AM, be assured you will be hitting the ground for a walk! This is because now your so-called biological clock is in action! Your body is now demanding fresh air, go out, play with your body, have fun and enjoy!
Now just imagine, you are waking up at 05:00 AM, going for an exercise, and coming up back even say by 06:30 AM, still 08:00 AM (your earlier wake-up time) is 01:30 hour away from 06:30 AM. You saved one and a half hours, you can invest this in family bonding or even you can invest this time to gain some knowledge. Just see how this extra one and half hours you easily generated from your daily routine and you are free to calculate this one and an hour on a daily basis for a full year, it will give you more than 20 days! Yes! you got your vacation time!
Congratulations, with this your journey to “weight management” has been successfully launched! And to reach the next destination on this journey, there will be another article.