Recommendations of the chef. Lose weight is easy! Indian methodology Kapha dosha AYURVEDA

Nutrition rules for overweight people:
Predominantly hot, light and dry (cooked with a small amount of water) food with a sharp, bitter and astringent flavors and a minimum amount of fats and sugar. Sweet, salty and sour tastes should be avoided.

Each dish should have a sharp, bitter and astringent taste. Spicy food improves digestion and warms the body, and bitter and astringent - helps curb appetite.
Spicy and spicy food is especially favorable in winter.
Favorable dishes cooked without water - baked, fried (but not much) in a pan or grill.
Each meal should contain fresh herbs, vegetables, salads, legumes, fruits and a variety of spices. And before eating it is desirable to drink a glass of hot or warm water. Ginger tea or just a pinch of fresh ginger will also be very useful before eating.
A good light dinner can be steamed vegetables, slightly flavored with melted butter.
Very hot or spicy food (causing tears) is good for both warming and washing out excess mucus.
Everything is crispy, fresh and stimulating is useful.
FRUIT
General rules:

Ripening fibrous fruits are beneficial. Especially useful are fruits and berries with astringent (tart) or bitter taste.
We do not recommend sweet fruit.
From the diet it is necessary to exclude all kinds of fruit processing with sugar - jams, jams, jam, pastille, etc.
VEGETABLES
General rules:

All sharp and bitter vegetables are favorable.
Vegetables are well-eaten both in the raw and in the heat-treated form.
In raw salads (to improve digestion) necessarily add a small (!) Amount of vegetable oil, ginger, red or black pepper. After salad from vegetables, it is not recommended to eat legumes or milk food, and also fish.
CEREAL
General rules:

For the diet, cereals should be used untreated from the grain shell or with the addition of bran.
Milk porridge is not recommended.
The most useful porridges are barley and buckwheat with a small amount of ghee. Multi-cereal cereals are also favorable.
Kashi is not recommended for use as a garnish.
Yeast and soft bread is unfavorable.
All dry products from cereals (crackers, breakfast cereals) should be consumed with a sufficient amount of liquid (preferably with herbal teas).
Products and dishes containing starch are categorically contraindicated.
BEETLES
General rules:

Legumes are complex food and should be consumed in small quantities and with spices.
In order not to cause an imbalance, beans are important to correctly cook :! Before cooking, soak the beans for several hours; after swelling, rinse well with cold water; soaked and washed beans boil for 10 minutes, drain the water, wash the beans, pour with clean water, add a sufficient amount of spices (turmeric, long pepper, cumin, pinch of asafoetida, or black salt) and bring to the full;
If the beans cause flatulence, then in the already prepared dish you need to add a long pepper, cloves, ginger, black cardamom.
It is not recommended to eat legume with vegetables, with cereals, with fish.
DAIRY
General rules:

Milk in principle for people with excess weight is not recommended. It is a complex product, as it causes mucus formation.
It is necessary to avoid fatty dairy products;
Fermented milk products (kefir, lassi, yogurt) can be consumed only in diluted form.
Sometimes you can use low-fat and hard cheese.
The use of ice cream is highly discouraged.
You can not consume milk, dairy products before bed. It is acceptable to use milk in the evening and at night so that it does not cause imbalance, it should be boiled with saffron, cinnamon, ginger, turmeric and drink in a very hot form.
FOOD OF ANIMAL ORIGIN
General rules:

For people who are overweight, ideally vegetarian food.
Occasionally (two or three times a week) you can eat lean meat.
It is recommended to bake the meat or cook on steamed, grilled, in no case fried or stewed in fat.
Fried meat should be excluded completely.
Raw meat ("Tatar" beef steak), half-baked meat (for example, steak with blood) is highly not recommended.
Spicy herbs, garlic, red and black pepper, fresh greens well balance meat dishes.
OILS
It is better to add oils not in the process of cooking, but before eating.
SPICES AND SEASONINGS
General rules:

All spices are suitable, especially peppers - cayenne, black, ginger. Also one of the best spices - fennel - you can fry a bit and eat up to 1 / tsp. after eating. Fenugreek seeds also work well - up to 1 tsp. in a day.
Avoid pickles, ketchup, mayonnaise.
BEVERAGES
General rules:

The volume of liquid per day should be no more than a liter a day in cold weather and one and a half liters in the hot season. Excessive use of the fluid is unfavorable: the digestive fire is extinguished, which is already quite weak, the body gains excess moisture, and as a result of excess weight, there is a tendency to edema