This is you if
- Regular appetite, regular digestion, regular elimination
- Stable energy through the day without crashes
- You sleep well and wake rested
- No strong pattern of heat, cold, heaviness, or dryness
- Symptoms only appear under unusual stress or seasonal change
What is happening
Your system is working. The task is not correction, it is maintenance and seasonal adjustment, which is the oldest and most sophisticated use of this entire tradition. Eating with the season rather than against it is how you stay here. ⚖️
Your five rules
- Eat with the season. Cooling and light in summer, warming and dense in winter.
- Three meals, regular times, largest at midday.
- Mostly cooked, mostly whole, mostly local.
- Adjust at the transitions. The two weeks around each season change are where imbalance starts.
- Notice early. Your advantage is that you will feel a shift before it becomes a pattern.
Eat more 🍚
Seasonal produce, whole grains, cooked vegetables, moderate protein, broths, a wide variety across the week rather than the same eight foods.
Eat less 🚫
Extremes of any kind. Long restrictive protocols, single food obsessions, and aggressive cleanses are not for you.
🔪 The habit that matters more than the food
Variety across the seasons. The most common way balanced people lose balance is eating a summer diet in winter, usually because it became a habit.
⚠️ The mistake your type makes
Adopting protocols designed for imbalanced bodies because they are popular. You do not need a cleanse. A system in balance is kept, not corrected.
Your first week
Follow the current seasonal guide. That is the whole instruction.
Start here
The current Seasonal Drop 🍂
🚩 See a doctor if
See a doctor first if, in the last three months, you have had any of:
- Unintentional weight loss
- Blood in stool or black stools
- Vomiting blood
- Severe or sudden unexplained pain
- Fainting or collapse
- Persistent fever
