A tamasic diet makes you feel dull, lacking in higher ideals and devoid of motivation.
Tamas is the quality of ignorance, darkness and inertia. It induces heaviness, lethargy and laziness. Tamasic foods are stale, fermented, burned, barbecued, overcooked or reheated too many times. They include meat, fish, eggs, drugs, alcohol and tobacco. A tamasic diet makes you feel dull, lacking in higher ideals and devoid of motivation. Overeating is tamasic. If you suffer from chronic ailments and depression, try reducing the tamasic foods you eat.