Ayurveda and diet

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And last about Zermati, this is an example he gives in his book,

He thus takes this example of a person whom he calls the restricted eater:

The person must have @ 4 pm a snack, which is : a yogurt and 4 grapes .

This person actually wants 2 squares of chocolate. But chocolate is prohibited .
So she takes : 1 yogurt and 4 grapes . But she still wants, under her tongue, 2 squares of
chocolate .

After 20 minutes of resisting, she takes the 2 squares of chocolate she so desires, and it is so good.
After 10 minutes, she has another square, and then, she cannot resist any more, since after all her diet
has now been wrecked by the forbidden food,
and she now eats the whole bar of chocolate.

So in the end, the restricted eater had one yogurt , 4 grapes and 1 whole bar of
chocolate, when all she really wanted initially was .. 2 squares of chocolate.

But she ate the entire bar, because tomorrow it will be back to diet, and tomorrow chocolate
will be totally prohibited. Her thinking is : There are " forbidden foods ," and they will not be there tomorrow,
so I have to eat them today , and eat a lot of them .

Zermati explains that

the naturally regulated eater eats 2 squares of chocolate, which is what she/he wants,
and stops, because he knows that tomorrow he will have access to it again ....
no food is forbidden, when and if she/he is hungry for it….

This is true, he says, for any form of " addiction" for " forbidden foods " such as
cheese , pastry, and even, to a certain degree, alcohol.


He sees in his office, 15 years later, the young woman who had come to see him as the teenager
mentioned at the beginning of these notes.

She is now in a state of such overweight that her life has become miserable. She is on a diet with no carbohydrates ,
suffers greatly, is tired, depressed, but if she breaks that diet, she seems to immediately put on more weight.
Addicted to zero calories sodas, she is desperate.
She no longer sees solutions to her issue, and burst into tears during the consultation.


He says :

Let's start at the beginning.
What do you want to eat now?

She looks at him and blushes.
What do I want, or what should I have ?

He says :
What do you want now ?

She laughs and replies :
Oh, Well, I dream of chocolate eclairs . I have not eaten one for 2 years ...

So Dr. Zermati says :

Well before returning home tonight , buy two chocolate eclairs .

Tonight dine exactly as prescribed by your
diet . [ The restricted eater ]
Tomorrow morning , weigh yourself, after you wake up.

Then take for your breakfast 2 chocolate eclairs .

Then go to the office but before you get there, enter a bakery, buy 5 chocolate eclairs,
eat three for lunch , keep for example 2 for an afternoon snack, and eat those only following your hunger for them.
If at snack time you are hungry, eat what is left of the eclairs, but when your hunger is gone, if there is any left,
throw them away.

Then buy before you go home whatever you really feel like for your dinner
The next morning, weigh yourself again, and then call me.


She does exactly what he prescribed he to do.
She buys 2 eclairs in the evening, dines following her no carb diet, spends the night , gets up, weighs herself,
then showers, and dresses, and then sits for breakfast.

And eats with absolute delight the 2 eclairs for breakfast.

She goes to her office , buys 5 eclairs , eats 3 at lunch under the eyes of her stunned
colleagues , and at four pm, take less than half of an eclair, and throws away what is left.

In the evening, the only thing she wants is to have two fresh tomatoes with herbs, oil and and balsamic vinegar.

The next morning , she weighs herself before calling Zermati and … she is in tears as she calls him,
for she has lost 1 pound in 24 hours eating chocolate eclairs !

When she called Dr. Zermati, he said that the result is normal , he asked her what she wanted for breakfast ,
she thinks about it and says an orange and 2 toasts, he then wants her to follow this,
and for lunch and dinner take only what she wants,
eating slowly, enjoying it to the max, but stopping as soon as the food stops pleasing her.

He insists as well that from this day forward, the concept of hunger and satiety must be respected , absolutely.

A little over a month later she calls and bursts into tears of joy on the phone :
She lost without effort, without dieting , 16 pounds in 5 weeks.

Sometimes she skipped a meal when she was not hungry , taking a snack later before the next meal .
It is only following the advice of her body, her feelings of hunger , happiness, food , and satiety .
She completely erased the concept of forbidden foods .
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I think that what moved me the most about this nutritionist was how he got into the despair of his patients and how he looked for a solution which was outside the given boundaries of his specialty. And it is interesting how he advised living in the exact moment of the present.

I find his attitude curiously aligned with Ra when Ra speaks about the intelligence of our cells in our body...