Food as Medicine

Food as Medicine

Ayurvedic Keto Meal Plan

5 days of structured meals to build signal literacy and sustained energy

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Savitree Kaur
Aug 12, 2025
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Ayurveda and Keto can feel conflicting.

Traditionally, we think of Ayurveda for healing and Keto for weight loss.

But this plan uses Keto as a performance nutrition approach—stable blood sugar, sustained cognitive function, decision clarity from capacity instead of depletion.

Ayurveda emphasizes: warm, spiced, and slow-cooked.
Keto emphasizes: low-carb, high-fat, and protein-balanced.
One works by reading signals. The other measures macros.

When you combine them, you get the best of both:

Both respect fat. It signals safety to your nervous system and supports cognitive function.
Both protect digestive efficiency. It transforms food into sustained energy, not crashes.
Both depend on rhythm. Consistency without rigidity reduces decision fatigue and steadies your system.

Remember:

  • If your blood sugar swings, your decisions will follow.

  • If your digestion is off, your clarity will be too.

  • If you eat on autopilot, you’ll operate that way too.

This is why this protocol exists.


Start here: the 5-Day Reset

If you haven’t done the 5-Day Digestion & Energy Reset, start there first.

Sluggish digestion creates sluggish energy and sabotages everything else. Fix that foundation first.

Then come back here for the next layer.


What this meal plan does:

This is a 5-day structured protocol with simple, repeatable recipes (3 meals a day, 2 options per meal) and practices to build sustained capacity.

Most people don’t need another diet. They need:

  • Rhythm (so their body can trust what’s coming)

  • Anchors (so their decisions compound instead of scatter)

  • Signal literacy (so they can read their own feedback)

This is training wheels. Use it until you can read your own body’s patterns. The goal is to outgrow the plan, not depend on it.


Why timing + method matter:

When you eat matters. Your digestive efficiency peaks at midday. Late dinners tank your sleep and tomorrow’s ability.

How you eat matters. Your body registers whether you’re sitting or standing, rushing or breathing, present or distracted.

This is a 5-day meal plan. That’s it.

Every day offers a reset:

  • Warm food

  • Strategic fat

  • Early dinner

  • Simple breathwork

  • Focused eating

You can repeat it. Swap meals. Adjust based on your signals, not rigidity.

No calorie counting. No obsessing.

Just simple recipes and rhythms that help your nervous system downshift and your digestion catch up.


We begin with fat + fire

Fat soothes your nervous system and supports brain function.

Fire (agni in Ayurveda) is your digestive efficiency—your ability to metabolize not just food, but stress, decisions, and life.

When both work together, you get:

  • Steady energy (not crashes)

  • Clear thinking (not fog)

  • Better decisions (not reactive choices)

  • Sustained capacity (not borrowed energy)


What’s inside:

The 5-day structure:

Each day has a theme and builds on the last:

Day 1: Rhythm + Foundation - Establish your anchors

Day 2: Grounded Focus - Protect your capacity

Day 3: Sustained Clarity - Build strength through system

Day 4: Sustainable Practice - Structure as support

Day 5: Integration + Ease - Light food, clear thinking


What you get:

  • 5 days of meals (2 options per meal + optional snack)

  • All recipes (simple, repeatable, ingredients you can find)

  • Shopping list (organized and efficient)

  • Morning practices (breath work, simple movement)

  • Practice notes (how to eat, not just what)

  • Signal literacy guidance (learn to read your patterns)

  • Integration journal (track what shifts)

  • Snack protocols (for when you need regulation)


How to use this plan:

Read it through once. Understand the why before you start the what.

Start in order the first time. Days 1-5 as written.

Then adapt. Repeat favorite meals. Swap based on your signals. Adjust portions. Make it yours.

This is signal literacy in practice: You’re learning to read YOUR body’s feedback and respond—not follow someone else’s rules forever.


This plan is your anchor

Not a fix. Not a detox. A practice.

A way to remember what your body feels like when it’s operating from capacity instead of depletion.

When your digestion works, your decisions work.

When your decisions work, everything else gets easier.


Ready to feel focused, steady, and in command?

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