# Can yoga help you lose weight

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Yoga is a group of physical, mental and spiritual practices or discipline. Yoga helps people to shed the unwanted pounds which works on our internally, detoxing our body and giving us a happier and healthier life.

**WILL YOGA BE HELPFUL IN WEIGHT LOSS JOURNEY**

Yes! yoga is very helpful for the weight loss. Yoga not only keeps our body mass balance but also provides peace. Practicing yoga may help you in improving your metabolism.  
A study found out that restoration yoga was effective in women to lose weight ( including the abdominal fat also)

**How often you should to yoga for weight loss:**

Start practicing yoga as often as possible and slowly make it your habit. If you are a beginner start gradually by building up your practice. If you don’t get tie for a full day class or maybe it is difficult to manage in week days, do self-practice at home for at least 15 to 20 minutes daily.

**Fallacy of weight loss**

Fallacy of weight loss is making the process more difficult to cut down the weight

1. **A radial exercise regime is the constant way:**

Not true. Successful weight loss involves small changes that you try to manage daily.  
To get perfect body shape and to become physical attractive an individual needs to do exercise for approximate 150 minutes daily, which may include cycling, running or even walking will do

_ **2.Starving** _

No! Starving can be highly dangerous as we have some body requirements. Our body needs proper food that contains carbohydrates, proteins, minerals and nutrients.

**Benefits of doing yoga**

1. Improve flexibility
2. Improve energy
3. Improve vitality
4. Improve respiration
5. Improve metabolism
6. Improve athletic health
7. Improve cardio health
8. Weight reduction
9. Increase muscle tone
10. Stress management
11. Peaceful mind

**Sun Salutations**

There are some basic sun salutations which you should do. You can also increase the intensity but increasing the time period or speed.

1. Exhale as you swan dive downwards into a forward bend.
2. From standing, inhale as you lift your arm overhead.
3. Jump, step, or walk your feet back into plank pose.
4. Hold this position for at least 5 breaths.
5. Drop your knees down and lower your body to the floor.
6. Extend your legs, turn the top of your feet to the mat, and place your hands under your shoulders.
7. Inhale to fit part way, halfway or all the way up to Cobra pose.
8. Exhale to lower back down and push up into downwards.
9. Hold this position for at least 5 breaths.
10. Exhale to lower your arms back down by your body .  
How much weight you can lose by yoga  
There is no such fix amount of weight loss. It depend from person to person as well as it relies on the weight of that person.

_ **Conclusion** _  
Yoga is one of the most effective way of weight loss which is going on since any years and helping people to come into their desire shape. It keeps us healthy physically as well as mentally.

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