This diet is based on ancient ayurvedic practices.
Start very slow. Do not start all 100% recommendations at the same time
Useful taste: Sweet, sour, salt,
Food should be warm, oily, nutritious
Most important are protein and fats.
Also, you should not avoid carbohydrates (or you will loose too much weight).
Principals:
- No hunger
- Eat 4-5 times a day, slowly transfer to 3-4 x a day
- Plan you food and do not miss it.
- Breakfast within 40-90 minutes after wakening up (8:00)
- Snack 11:00
- Lunch 1200-1300
- Snack 1600-1700
- Supper 190-2000
- Breakfast and lunch – more volume. Second snack and dinner – light
- If too much sleep issues, add carbohydrates to the dinner
Other Principals
- No Hunger!!!!!
- If you want to have lighter days, decrease your calories intake by 20-30%. Food still need to be warm, oily, with all important nutrients: protein, fat, carbs, fiber.
- Priority – cooked food. Minimal raw food
- When starting 90% cooked food, 10% raw food
- After a month or two, especially is gaining some weight- 70% cooked, 30% raw
- Priority – light combination of the products
DECREASE:
- Hard spices
- Raw vegetables, fruits, juices, smoothies
- Cold food or drinks
- Fasting, very hard diets, detox with smoothies, salads and juices
- Avoid any extreme diets, including Autoimmune diet
- Keto diet – only under supervision
Food:
- Soups and broth
- Example – broth for lunch and snack, soup for dinner
- Broth from Lamb, fish, beef. For vegetarians – miso soups
- Cook broth from meat and bones: fish 20-30 minutes, red meat 2-4 hours, poultry and rabbit 1-2 hours.
- Easily digestible proteins
- Liver, heart, tongue
- Free range poultry,
- Rabbit
- Fish – any , but not very fatty
- Seafood
- Eggs
- Fats: any, usually four or five tablespoons a day
- Natural oils like ghee, olive oil, pumpkin oil, sunflower
- Also fat from lamb or duck
- Grains:
- Amaranth
- Corn
- Flax
- still odds
- Basmati rice
Beans and Lentils
Combine beans and lentils with vegetables, grains, oils and spices that calm vatta
Kichari rise and green mash
Green mash and quinoa
Tofu, Tempe, miso
Any lentils
Dairy
Hot milk with spices during Vatta hours. ****
Warm yogurts, kefirs, cottage cheese
Cooked cottage cheese
Vegetables
Any cooked vegetables with oil. (be careful with high glycemic index vegetables, or mix them with low glycemic index vegetables)
Fruit
Any cook fruits
Apricot, banana, grapes, pomegranate, pear, figs, mango, plums, peaches
Any sweet berries in small amounts
Sweets:
Coconut sugar or cane sugar
Berry syrup
Dry fruit
Nuts:
Any nuts in small quantities (30-40 gr), soaked and the heated in the oven
MINIMIZE
Proteins
- Ground lamb, beef, etc.
- Duck, Goose
- Fat fish: Halibut, Salmon, Mackerel
Grains
- Buckwheat, wild rice, quinoa
- Whole-wheat flour (any)
Dairy
- Too much dairy
- Any cold cheese
Vegetables
- Al Dente vegetables.
- Any leafy greens should be combined with hot meals, better soups or broth and at the end of the meal
Beans and Lentils
- Whole chickpea
- Green Lentils
Fruit
- Any citrus, apples without skin
- Sour berries
Sweets
- Dark, bitter chocolate
AVOID
Protein
- Pork
Grains
- Dry breads, crackers
- Fine flour
Dairy
- Kefir
- Cold mild, ice-cream, cold cream
Vegetables
- Cruciferous vegetables (raw) – radishes, daikon, cabbages (especially while/green cabbage)
- Raw onion, garlic
- Raw celery
- Too much smoothies and juices
Fruits
- Watermelon
- Apples with skin, sour
Sweets
- Honey
- White sugar or any products with white sugar
GOOD SPICES
Main:
Asafetida
star anise
cumin seasoning
cardamom green
nutmeg
cumin common
black cumin
fennel
Garlic powder
Warming and neutral for digestion
clove spice
ground coriander
Cinnamon
Turmeric
Allspice
Bay leaf
fenugreek leaf
oregano
rosemary
safflower
thyme
Sage
Saffron
Minimize those spices
Mustard
Ginger
black pepper
hot red pepper
horseradish
wasabi
DRINKS
- Warm, boiled water, slightly higher than body temperature, up to 1 liter / day
- Hot milk
- Boiled fruits and berries
Alcohol is permitted
Pu-erh tea, black and red tea (1-2 cups a day)
Chicory and dandelion tea
Warm mineral water
Blooming Sally
Limit
- No cold water in large quantities, especially with ice
- Any cold drinks with ice
- COFFEE
- Green tea, Macha Tea
- Juices and Smoothies
- Cold Milk