Yoga = Natural Weight Loss Without Dieting

 

Yoga = Natural Weight Loss Without Dieting

Reading old records of yoga, I noticed that no exercise is written to have an effect on weight loss. How strange it is, judge for yourself, after reading this, that some exercises work against many diseases and cure the body of everything. I don’t caricature… literally so it says… of everything! So in this society of exercises that work “against everything and for everyone”, how come none of them work on weight loss?

The answer is actually very simple. Yogis did not need to lose weight because at that time most of them ate healthy, lived almost stress-free, practiced yoga every day, walked in nature, did not have McDonalds and other fast foods and therefore there was no need to state the effect of exercise on weight loss.

But as yoga came to the west, so did it come to those climates that functioned a little differently. Stress, obligations that made it impossible for people to cook and eat homemade healthy food in peace, bad heat-treated food at low prices on every corner… all this conditioned the word weight loss to be included in yoga.

HOW DO WE NOT LOSE WEIGHT WITH YOGA?

We do not lose weight with yoga in the way of burning excess fat cells. The research I recently read included, among other research parameters, calorie consumption in: sitting on a chair, performing yoga (Vinyasa yoga – a type of dynamic yoga) and walking on a treadmill 5.6 kilometers per hour for 30 minutes. In half an hour of dynamic yoga, the practitioners burned twice as many calories as sitting in a chair and twice as many calories as walking on a treadmill. Yoga practitioners consumed 66.9 calories. According to U.S. Pat. Surgeon General, each activity should, if we want it to be effective, consume a minimum of 250 calories per workout. This would mean that this type of yoga, in order to meet the minimum, should be practiced for 112 minutes. Which is too much. We prefer to run slowly for 20 minutes to half an hour, ride a bike or swim. We save time and get better results faster. If we really want to “melt fat cells” with some activity!

HOW DO WE LOSE WEIGHT WITH YOGA?

Let’s go back to the already mentioned asanas, these miraculous “exercises that heal the body from everything”, including excess weight.

First of all, asanas have an extremely effective effect on the digestive system, more precisely on improving digestion and proper breakdown of fats, better elimination of waste products from the body (which are often the cause of dullness, lethargy and immobility). In short, we return the digestive flow to normal if we have had some problems such as constipation, bloating, insufficient secretion of digestive juices and the like. Once we have established a healthy digestive system, it is important to take advantage of it by eating quality and healthy foods.

What is most interesting (although, unfortunately, scientifically and least explained) is the fact that asanas in themselves lead to changes in our consciousness, sometimes completely inexplicable, but obvious, for example: reducing the need for alcohol, fatty heavy meals, excessive meals, sweets and meat… and on the other hand the organism begins to “demand” light food, fruits, vegetables, clean water instead of alcoholic and carbonated drinks, etc.

“In just a few months of practicing yoga, I completely changed my diet,” wrote the 51-year-old employee of the Medical Yoga program. “Without any coercion or renunciation, I stopped eating fatty foods and turned to vegetables.”

Explaining these changes in our consciousness (mind), yogis will say that asanas directly affect the endocrine glands (especially the thyroid gland) and this results in balancing and improving the functioning of a number of metabolic processes, the breakdown of food, the need to eat and a number of other factors. directly or indirectly involved in weight regulation.

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STRESS PROMOTES WEIGHT GAIN

Our next and final step is to get quality food into our body. And that’s where yoga helps! By exercising, we affect both the physical and the mental component, so if we continuously practice yoga and eat unhealthily, the feeling of remorse after a poor meal will prevail. Also, the most important thing – when we “fix” the digestive system and balance the diet, the body itself begins to react negatively to heavy, fatty and unhealthy foods, and begins to react very positively to healthy and quality. Therefore, if something does not suit us, we reject it and leave what suits us.

Yoga effectively reduces and removes stress. And the science of nutrition (and stress) teaches us: we eat… either too much or too little in stressful situations. So by removing stress, we also balance the need for food intake. Step two done. We have a quality digestive system and a moderate food intake.

Many doctors advise: it is better to lose weight with yoga than just with running or other similar activities. Namely, yoga, in addition to normalizing digestion, at the same time affects many other aspects of our health, virtually all organs and organic systems, and its effect on the spirit is very pronounced in terms of relaxation and calm, and achieving a sense of calm and deep inner happiness.

And one more thing; living in the spirit of yoga changes and improves our life habits, returns us to our original natural and healthy life. 

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