The Oriental medical approach to losing weight is process oriented. The difference is that effective weight loss is best achieved not with extreme diets but with enhancing energy itself. This energy is known as chi. Digestive chi varies from person to person. That is why there is no universal weight loss diet that works for everyone.

The best diet for you strengthens your weak chi. An Oriental approach to successful weight loss assumes healthy cooking, NOT starvation diets or diet pills. The main thing is to strengthen the body, not weaken it.

With Acupuncture and carefully chosen foods chi can be stimulated in order to create strength, good digestion and elimination. In that way fat is treated as a toxin. Herbs when used properly help tonify the body, prevent fat, fatigue and depression. Slimming herbs can even help you crave healthier foods because chi and food cravings are related. The healthier your chi, the healthier your cravings.

Acupuncture can help the body to remember how it is supposed to work. It awakens the body’s intelligence. Acupuncture helps tonify chi which in turn helps boost energy and circulation. It moves stuck chi and blood which can cause fat and water weight and pain.

Later this week I will post some helpful weight loss tips. To jump start your weight loss program, start an exercise routine right away. Just walking an extra 20 minutes per day will help. Work up to a half hour per day. Take a yoga, tai chi or pilates class.

Jeanie Marie Kraft, L.Ac. MyAcuDoc.com

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