Many people choose to go on a diet or go on a hunger strike when they want to lose weight, thinking that not eating food can help them lose weight. In fact, this method not only fails to lose weight, but also causes harm to the body. The reason is that although you can lose a few pounds by going on a diet, you will gain weight again once you eat again. If this continues, it will become more difficult to lose weight. So, how can we lose weight scientifically?
Adjusting diet does not mean anorexia
In life, many women try to lose weight by adjusting their eating habits, but adjusting their diet does not mean anorexia. Yang Chunjuan, a senior nutritionist at the Nutrition Department of Luoyang Oriental Hospital, said that if you develop anorexia due to weight loss, it will seriously affect your health. Most of the causes of anorexia are that people cannot face their own body shape in front of the mirror, thinking that their obesity is caused by food, and then hate food, hoping to achieve the purpose of losing weight by not eating.
Yang Chunjuan pointed out that it is very irrational to use dieting to lose weight. Because there is a normal physiological mechanism in the human body, when it is time to eat, the brain will send a hunger signal to the stomach, so that we will want to eat. If this physiological mechanism is broken, it will seriously affect the normal operation of the body, and over time, you will suffer from anorexia.
There are also many people who lose weight through fasting. This method can achieve the purpose of losing weight at first, but after eating again, there will be a rebound, which will cause greater harm to the body. Because when the human body is fasting, the energy entering the human body is interrupted, and the fat tissue in the body will decompose to deliver energy to the body. But after the fat is consumed, the body will break down protein to obtain energy. Over time, the consequences can be imagined. The feeling of hunger during fasting will be very strong, which seriously affects people's normal activities such as rest, work and study. When the human body cannot bear this hunger, it will eat uncontrollably, leading to excessive eating and affecting the effect of weight loss.
If you want to lose weight scientifically and effectively, you must first psychologically reduce the fear of weight gain. Don’t think of losing weight as an insurmountable mountain. Then adjust the drinkAdjust your eating habits rather than anorexia or fasting, so that you can lose weight healthily and effectively.
How to choose staple foods during weight loss
To have a balanced diet, you need to eat enough of the four major food groups at every meal every day. Wang Chaoxia, director of the Nutrition Department of Luoyang Central Hospital, introduced that the four major categories of food are cereals and potatoes, meat, eggs, milk and legumes, vegetables and fruits, and oils and nuts. No matter what type of food you eat, you can lose weight healthily by finding low-calorie foods, controlling your calorie intake, and absorbing nutrients in a balanced way. Losing weight in this way will not cause malnutrition, accelerate aging or reduce physical fitness.