Overweight

Being overweight or fat is having more body fat than is optimally healthy. Being overweight is especially common where food supplies are plentiful and lifestyles are sedentary.

How is it diagnosed?

• With a BMI check.

Symptoms

• Fatigue
• Breathing Problems.
• Snoring

Causes

Being overweight is generally caused by the intake of more calories (by eating) than are expended by the body (by exercise and everyday activity). Factors that may contribute to this imbalance include:

• Alcoholism
• Eating Disorder ( such as binge Eating)
• Genetic predisposition
• Hormonal imbalances (e.g. hypothyrodism)
• Insufficient or poor-quality sleep
• Limited physical excercise and a sendentary lifestyle
• Poor nutrition
• Metabolic Disorder, which could be caused by repeated attempts to lose weight by weight cycling
• Overeating
• Stress

Naturopathy Treatment

• Mud pack
• Enema
• Steam bath
• Spine bath
•  Hot foot bath
• Alternate fomentation of stomach , liver and kidney.
• Whole body wet sheet pack
• Alternate hip bath
• Massage
• Full body mud pack.

Key Notes

• Treatment is not targeted to only loosing weight.
• When clinical blood reports, ultrasound reports, MRI and ECG reports come out normal, then only loosing weight is targeted.
• Patients require a proper treatment and not weight loosing packages. And it takes time to loose weight.
• Obesity due to water retention, genes, accident and mental trauma takes much more time to loose weight.

Yoga

1. All sukshma vyayam
2. Sitting posture asanas
   • Nauka chalan
   • Chakki chalan
   • Pashchimottanasan
   • Meru vakrasan
3. Vajrasan samooh
   • Vajrasan
   • Shashank asan
   • Mandook asan
   • Marjari asan
   • Ardhaushtrasan
4. Asans laying on back
   • Pad sanchalan
   • Pawan muktasan
   • Setubandh asan
   • Suptaudrakarshan asan
   • Sui dhaga asan
   • Viparit karni.
5. Asanas laying on stomach
   • Makrasan
   • Bhujangasan
   • Tiryak bhujangasan
   • Dhanurasan
6. Standing asanas
   • Tadasan
   • Tiryak tadasan
   • Katichakrasan
   • Vrikshasan
   • Tulasan
   • Trikonasan
7. Suryanamaskar completing with shithalikaran.
8. Pranayam
   • Nadi shodhan
   • Bhastrika
   • Anulom vilom
   • Kapalbhati
   • Shitali
   • Shitkari
   • Bhramari
   • Completing with pranav ka dhyan.
9. Bandh
   • Tribandh
10. Mudras
    • Gyana mudra
    • Apana mudra
    • Prana mudra
    • Vayu mudra
    • Surya mudra
    • Varun mudra

Key Notes

1. Patient should always take care of its own capacity. Capacity of movement, holding the posture and capacity of repeatation
2. Always take care of heart beat while doing yoga it should be normal not so fast.
3. Yoga should be done with full consciousness on inner body and breathing, to get faster and positive results.
4. Yoga doesn’t have any negative effect but it is  necessary to make a proper yoga chart for a speedy recovery.
5. Sukshma vyayam, mudra and shithalikaran is equally necessary and beneficial so it shouldn’t  skipped.

Diet

First three weeks

The patient should take food which is easily digestible. The patient should be on liquids for atleast 3 weeks, if the condition is very serious.

After three weeks

• In morning: 6am to7am
  • 10 pieces- Raisins, 2 pieces- Dates, Anjeer (soaked in water and grinded to make a solution).
• At 9am
  • One bowl of Daliya ( liquid)
  • One bowl of mix vegetables soup.
  • One Pulpy fruit
• 12 pm
  • One tablespoon of curd mixed with a glass of water
• 1.30 pm to 2 pm
  • Boiled Vegetable, soupy brown rice and one bowl of salad chopped minutely into pieces.
• 4pm
  • A glass of citrus juice. Sweet lime juice is always the best .
• 7pm to 8pm
  • One Pulpy fruit ( mango is best in other season, chikoo or papaya or other pulpy fruit can be taken).
  • Before bed, take a cup of warm water and a one inch piece of jaggery.

Do’s and Don’ts

Say YES to:

1. Wake up before sunrise.
2. Take proper rest.
3. Pray and have positive and generous thoughts.
4. Take pure natural satwik food.
5. Milk, butter milk, sprouts, fox nuts dates, raisins, fig, honey, jaggery, and sweet pulpy fruits.
6. Fruit juice and vegetable’s soup.

Say NO to:

• Dairy products
• Bakery items
• Processed Food.
• Food that contains excessive of roughage, white rice, tea, coffee, pickles and watermelon.
• Ginger, Black pepper and Red chilly.
• Avoid to eat without hunger and over eating.

All the information available on this website is for education and awareness purposes only. Follow these practices only under the guidance of a trained Yoga and Naturopathy practitioner. Punam Agarwal and her Yoga and Naturopathy initiatives are not liable for any injuries caused during the process