Yoga plays an important role for the treatment of obesity. Yoga exercises improve your blood circulation and increase metabolism rate of the body and strengthen your muscles and make you healthier and tone up your body. With the aid of yoga exercise your energy level also improves, indeed you never really feel lethargic. It removes the extra fat from body by managing the weight of your body according to your height and lifestyle. Sometimes in stressed moments you tend to eat more and in this case the problem could be defeated through yoga exercise. The yoga exercise keep you in shape by increasing the hormonal secretion of lethargicthyroid glands. Here are some yoga exercises helpful to cut down extra fats:

Natrajasana 

To reduce thighs, shapes calf muscles, and strengthens ankles, this asana is ideal. For it, spread your feet apart; bend your knees and raise your heals and stand on the ball of your feet; then raise your arms over your head and pull yourself; hold for 10-15 counts and then breath normally. But if you are suffering from knee injuries, you should avoid this asana.

Purna Vyagrasana

This asana is meant to tone hips and back thigh muscles. For it you need to be on your knees and palms on the floor; look straight and then raise one leg straight up and parallel to the floor; inhale and bend the knee of the raised leg and slowly raise the knee as high as possible; contract the hamstring and hip muscles as tight as possible; uphold the posture for 30-50 seconds. Now repeat the same on the other side.

Bhunaman Kakasana

The asana is beneficial to improve upper body strength and tones skeletal muscle. The procedure is: lie flat on the stomach; keep your hands by the side of the chest and raise your entire body by straightening your arms and doing a push up; then place your left knee on the floor and raise your right leg up and bend the knee towards the ceiling; bend your elbows and go down towards the floor without touching it; hold position for 30 seconds. Repeat same on the other side. But if you are suffering from wrist and elbow injuries, you should avoid this asana.

Ardhachakrasana

The asana works on the waist and side muscles of the body. For it you need to raise your right arm and place it next to the ear; then exhale and bend your body to the left with your arm stretched out; inhale and come up. Now repeat the same procedure on the other side.

Pranayama

Pranayama is a significant technique in yoga which is control and extension of Prana or Vital energy.

The Pranayama can be classified in two types—hypo ventilation and hyper ventilation or relaxing pranayama. Kapalbhati, Bhasrika and fast breathing are the examples of hyper ventilation that increase oxygen and reduce carbon dioxide while deep breathing like Bhramari, Shitali, and Sitkari can be classified under Hypo ventilation.

Kapalbhati, Bhasrika & fast breathing can be exercised by people suffering from obesity with good effects These Pranayama techniques increase the lung capacity and help burning fats.

Besides this Agnisar — fast movement of abdominal muscles in and out — is very good exercise to get rid of the accumulated fats in the abdominal area.

Body weight can be reduce either by decreasing calorie intake or increasing the number of calories you burn. Hence exercise is essential to burn all extra calories. You can follow these exercises to reduce weight:

• Warm up exercises are a essential as you have to prepare the body for a state of activity. Warm up exercises increases the flexibility of the muscles and also reduces the chances of injury. Slow walking, trunk rotations, or low intensity movements are enough to warm up your body. Then you can concentrate on muscular strength and endurance exercises. Simple weight exercises with push-ups and sit-ups.
• Aerobic workouts is quite helpful to keep you in shape. Brisk walking, cycling, aerobic machines, or swimming not only burn calories but keep your heart healthy also. People who are suffering from obesity and joint problems at the same time, swimming is the best remedy as you can burn even more calories with much less stress on your joints. Give at least half an hour to aerobic exercises daily.
• Resistance training, and weight training both can help to stay slim and shaped by building muscle and raising metabolism. Resistance training is an exercise that causes the muscles to contract against an external resistance with the expectation of increases in strength, tone, mass, or endurance. The external resistance may be dumbbells, bricks, bottles of water, or any other object that causes the muscles to contract.
• Any exercise program is incomplete in the absence of cardiovascular exercises. Cardiovascular exercises do the main job of burning unwanted calories, reducing fat, and strengthening heart and the lungs. Therefore brisk walking, swimming, cycling, skipping and rowing are fantastic fat burners.
• Playing games like tennis, basketball, badminton every day, are good way to lose a few kilos, while enjoying yourself. Always remember, exercise throughout the week and do not too much in one-day.

Also change your eating habits. Add grapefruit, apple cider vinegar, peppers, green tea, salmon and sardine fishes, lean beef, vegetables and fresh fruits, oatmeal, beans, peas, peanut butter in your meal.

Two main things are crucial for overweight — extra fat intake through the diet and some metabolic problem which does not allow the proper utilization of fat in the body. A proper diet and correction of defective metabolism, is only the way to get rid of excessive fat and Ayurveda is ideal for the accomplishment for this task, see how:

Ayurvedic Herbs for the Treatment of Obesity

Ayurvedic physicians prescribe many herbs for weight reduction — Guggulu, Guduchi, amla, Triphala, Shilajitare among them. Guggulu may be prescribed in its original form (one gram four times a day), or in a mixture form as Navaka Guggulu or Triphala Guggulu; Guduchi helps in the proper canalization of fats in the body; Triphala powder benefits us through its detoxifying powers and aids in natural weight loss; then Amla, rich in Vitamin C, helps to keep you in shape. Take one tea spoon Amla powder to keep obesity away and enjoy leaner physique.

Follow Ayurvedic food chart

Proper diet is helpful to bring the body to a healthy and constant weight as there is a direct relation between the diet one eats and obesity. Controlling the diet is a sure method of controlling obesity. The following guidelines must be observed:

• Abide by an Ayurvedic food chart and eat the quantity of food recommended for your body type.
• Have balanced meals and maintain regular meal times. Abandon the uncontrolled eating.
• Start your day with a tbsp. of honey and lemon juice with warm water and follow it up with a breakfast of wheat cereal or sprouted Mung bean with a cup of skimmed milk.
• Choose raw or steamed vegetables; salad of carrots, beets, cucumbers and tomatoes; a glass of buttermilk with whole grain bread or whole wheat chapattis, for lunch. To boost your digestive system, add a little salt, ginger, cumin seeds and coriander in buttermilk.
• For mid-afternoon snack consume coconut water along with dried fruits, lemon tea and vegetable soup.
• In dinner, you can choose whole wheat chapattis with steamed vegetables. After having dinner you can have any fruit of the current season except banana and apple.

Other Ayurveda Weight Loss Suggestions

Also consider other Ayurveda weight loss suggestions like eat more fruits, vegetables and low calorie meals; use little salt and bitter vegetables; avoid milk products like cheese and butter; drink carrot juice and mint tea regularly and some cabbage; avoid red meats etc.

Ayurvedic Home Remedies for Obesity

1. Mix a tablespoonful of honey in an equal amount of water and take it in the morning. 2. Drink hot water throughout the day to dissolve the excess fat in the body. 3. Boil beaten ginger with tea and have it twice a day. 4. Follow fasting once a week and take only liquid diet to flush out the toxins and excess fats accumulated throughout the week.