Overeating – Short term solution
Short term solution to Overeating
Long term disadvantages of over eating are overweight, excess deposit of unwanted elements in body. This leads to several health problems in long term. Long term solution to overeating is to make a mental discipline. It involves control over greed. While eating chew the food for a long time before swallowing. Enjoy the food fully and completely. Never eat in hurry. If you eat the food slowly and chew it for a long time it satisfies most of the mental hunger of taste. There is a time lag between start of eating and when the body starts getting energy from it. If you eat too fast, the body will not be able to signal that it is getting enough. On the other hand if you eat slowly, the body starts getting some energy from the first bite as you are still eating. The body therefore gets satisfied earlier. It is therefore prudent to eat slowly which brings myriad of health benefits.
It is however, not possible to always avoid overeating. None of us are perfect. None of us can control the greed all of the times. Sometimes, even when we do not overeat, the food is overly rich in oil and fat, which leads to health problems. A solution lies to an ancient Indian technique called Kunjal ( or Baghi ?) . In Kunjal ( or Baghi ?), the food eaten is vomited out of the body. But this is not done immediately after the food. It has to be done systematically. Here are the steps.
1. Wait for 3 to 4 hours after you had your food.
2. Heat drinking water. It should be slightly warm. Slightly above body temperature. Have about 2 liters of it ready. Add half a small teaspoonful salt in it.
3. Drink water quickly, as much as possible. Keep drinking water till you feel that you can drink no more.
4. Now get up and be ready for vomiting. Stand near your toilet. Put two of your finger in your mouth and touch inside your neck in the tonsil area.
5. As soon as you touch or press the tonsil area your urge to vomit will increase. Keep trying a bit and soon, you will suddenly start vomiting.
6. Keep vomiting by pressing the tonsil area. Keep doing it till you can vomit no more.
7. Not drink 3 or 4 sip of normal water and relax.
Why three to four hours after the food ? Because, all the good ingredients of the food is absorbed within 3 to 4 hours of eating. Thereafter, the food requires more effort to process and get assimilated to body. It therefore makes sense to get rid of this, if you have overeaten, especially fats and oily stuffs.