hinese medicine views overweight specifically as a sign of wek chi of the Water and Earth elements. Therefore, diet is not the only factor to consider when losing weight. It depends upon you constitutional type.
People with weakness in the Earth element often put extra inches at the waist and hips. If your Earth element is weak, you tend to crave sweets or heavy foods. This makes you suffer from excess phlegm that congests sinuses or results in headaches, abdominal bloating, or stomachaches. Weak Earth leads to cellulite. Blood-sugar problems can make you fell tired or spacey. Even if you are not overweight but tend to feel unhappy, unsettled, and ungrounded, or is you feel weakness or emptiness, your Earth element needs help.
Step One: Look at your Tongue and Act Accordingly. You
tongue color and texture will visible improve as you eat foods that facilitate
digestion. But not everyone's metabolism is alike. For example, Lida Daidaihua
diet pills containing heating heating, drying stimulants such as Garcinia
Cambodgi, might make you feel great and others sick. You tongue can show you
what kind of digestive stimulants works best for you.
The Pale
tongue Use: warming, drying foods and
stimulant herbs, laxatives.
Flavors: Pungent, sour
Add: Fresh ginger and lemon to slimming teas
Herbs: Lida DaiDaihua 1 capsule daily or Botanical Slimming
Capsule. You can take 1 howthorn berry capsule three times daily three times a
day (after meals).
Vigorous daily exercise and an occasional trip to
sauna or a massage with corn oil will help speed up metabolism. This will
eventually make the overly pale tongue more pink and less coated.
The red tongue Use: cooling,
cleansing foods and herbs, laxatives.
Flavors: bitter,
sour
Add: aloe vera to slimming teas (enough to be laxative)
Herbs: Purification Slimming Capsule, Healthin Slimming
Capsule, Slimming Teas, dandelion.
If you have a reddish tongue, you
need to cleanse while reducing your sweet cravings with anti-inflammation diet.
Drinking slimming teas with added aloe vera, will reduce toxins, inflammation,
and excess weight by cleansing. In time, the overly red or dark-coated tongue
will become pink, moist, and clear of spots, cracks, ridges, or bald areas.
The Earth Slimming Diet Before you start this
diet, please, try the following experiment to observe your digestion:
For five consecutive days, sometime in the morning have one teaspoon of
flaxseed, olive, or canola oil. You might eat the toast with Italian herbs oil.
In the afternoon, have one or more teaspoons of bee pollen as a sweet energy
boost. Then, after five days, observe any differences in your eating habits. Do
you enjoy this addiction of healthy fat and sweet foods? Do you find yourself
that you crave you usual fats and sweets less because of them?
Remember,
that the best way to change your diet is not to drop all of your favorite
bad-for-you foods and add new foods all at once. Instead, let your body become
accustomed to new tastes by adding the healthy ones gradually.
Step two: A baseline Slimming Diet. Our aim is
not temporarily to relieve symptoms, but to normalize food cravings and reduce
bloating and pain while increasing absorption of nutrients and eliminating
wastes.
No matter what you are currently eating, if you add powerful
slimming herbs to your meals, you will begin to lose weight. If you are still
suffer from excess hunger, add one quarter cup of aloe vera gel to green or
slimming teas.
Add slimming herbs to your meals.
Depending of the condition of your tongue, add slimming teas,
purification slimming capsules, Lida Daidaihua Slimming Capsule, or Botanical
Slimming Capsule to your meals daily.
Step three: Healthy Substitutes.
One way to turn fat into muscle is to substitute healthy fats
and sweets for unhealthy ones. Avoid butter, cheese, fried foods, pastries, and
cream sauces, especially during humid weather, because sweet and oily foods slow
digestion.
Healthy fats He following recipes
use pungent, bitter, and sour herbs to speed cleansing. Use then as a substitute
of butter.
Slimming Salad Dressings Adding
liver-cleansing herbs to oil-and-vinegar dressings turns them into healing
remedies with a certain zing. To a bottle of canola or olive oil, add 1 teaspoon
minced garlic.
You can make a stimulating herbal extract by adding one
teaspoon diced orange peel and a handful of fresh tarragon herb to a bottle of
balsamic vinegar. The oil and vinegar will be ready to use in two weeks. You can
use such digestive salad dressings on toast or over steams vegetables whenever
possible.
Basic Seed Butter Here is another
useful butter substitute your use on vegetables, baked potatoes, toast, or
pasta. It's tangy sauce made with powerful herbal cleansers. This seed butter is
different every time you'll make it depending on the ingredients at hand, but
the basic recipe includes two strongly detoxifying ingredients, pumpkin seeds
and garlic.
½ pounds war pumpkin seeds
1
heaping teaspoon minced garlic
½ lemon
¼ teaspoon salt substitute
1/8
teaspoon black pepper
1 small red onion
1 teaspoon dried orange peel
2
tablespoons balsamic vinegar
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
Optional: 1 tiny dash asafetida powder
Blend the first nine
ingredients gradually in a food processor, adding enough water in the olive oil
for richness. It can be used immediately, but tastes better after being stored
in an airtight jar in the refrigerator for about three days.
Slimming Flavors: Pungent, Bitter, and Sour
Pungent, bitter, and sour foods and spices make digestion smoother,
preventing the full feelings, pain, and lumps that can result from poor
circulation and digestive wastes.
Pungent foods include radish, pepper,
and hot spices.
Bitter greens Laxative,
stimulant, cooling, and cleansing, bitter greens offer a refreshing lift after
rich meals. For example, dandelion leaves in a salad, or roasted dandelion root
as a coffee substitute, cleanses the liver. Other bitter salad greens, including
chicory and endive, are rich in vitamins, yet slimming.
Sour
foods Slimming sour foods include thubarb, grapefruit, lemon,
and naturally fermented pickles.
Healthy sweets
If you have a serious sweet tooth, you might have acquired it
very young. Perhaps it demands foods you've grown accustomed to as a comforting
treat. Be gentle to yourself when changing old habits.
Make sure to take
the recommended amounts of zinc and chromium picolinate daily to reduce sweet
cravings. You can also chew fennel seeds all day if you use sweets to quiet your
nerves. You might also start adding there sweet substitutes and watch your
tastes change while you lose weight. Chew or brew as tea:
- For
pale tongue: cloves
- For red tongue: fennel
seeds or licorice sticks.
Bee Pollen This food
is rich in amino acids, the building blocks of protein. It is more nutritious
than steak, milk, or most other protein sources, especially because it is very
easy to digest. The bees have already digested it for you. You can enjoy a
spoonful of bee pollen or royal jelly anytime without fear of weight gain. Royal
jelly is the refined syrup, made from pollen, that is used to feed queen bees.
Do not heat either of there, and store opened containers in the refrigerator.
Chinese Herbalists combine riyal jelly with ginseng to build energy.
Chinese ginseng is best used by persons with a pale tongue. This combination is
especially useful in the fall and winter, when we need help building immune
strength because fatigue and cold weather often make us crave sweets more than
usual.