Bad habits, slow metabolism or sleep problems are some of the reasons for gaining weight. Check what contributed to the increase in fat content and start working.
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Fashionable weight loss
Over the years, protein, fat and carbohydrates have been alternately praised and rejected, sometimes as food products for weight loss. It is very likely that you fell into these trends and used various fashionable diets, ranging from the Kwaśniewski diet, through Dukan, fruit and vegetable diets, to diets compatible with the blood type. In the multitude of recommendations and contradictory information, it is easy to get lost and it is difficult to understand what is good and what is bad for us in the end. Often times, information chaos is used as an excuse to give up the diet and eat what you want, which eventually results in weight gain. On the other hand, sticking to the rules of irrational diets can end badly for your health. So what to do? Before you decide to jump into the whirlwind of one of the fashionable diets, check what independent experts say about it.
Changes in life and in the body
Every change in life, whether it’s good or bad, causes a feeling of stress, fear, insecurity. Often at such moments, you unconsciously try to deal with these feelings by reaching for food. Snacking or so-called comfort eating is associated with weight gain. If this is how you react to changes, the most important thing is to find a way to deal with stress, other than by eating. It is worth consulting a psychologist.
Additionally, with age our metabolism is reduced every 10 years by 2%. So if we eat the same way all the time, the caloric intake becomes too high in relation to our needs, which generates fat deposition. Hormonal fluctuations associated with the menopause also promote weight gain and make it difficult to lose weight. Besides, in my thirties we gradually lose muscle mass every year. The solution is to introduce a well-balanced diet that will nourish the body and exercise, which in turn will keep the muscles in good shape.
An important dream
People who sleep less eat morewhich results, for example, from the length of their vigilance period. Additionally, not getting enough sleep is linked to poorer food choices. Most often, you eat more foods rich in carbohydrates and fat, and choose ready meals. Unfortunately, such habits are a straightforward way to increase body fat stores. You can read more about it in the article ‘Sleep = not you’.
It also turns out that not only the amount of sleep itself is important, but also the timing of sleep. Research conducted at the Medical University of South Korea on a group of approximately 1600 people indicates that women called Night owls had a greater tendency to accumulate fat around their bellythan ‘early risers’. They also have a higher risk of developing metabolic syndrome. The research results were published in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
Diet errors
Limiting calories or individual components of the diet is most often associated with weight loss. Over time, however, the use of an energy deficit causes the metabolism to slow down. As a result, the next effects stop appearing, so we start to cut more calories, sometimes below values that are safe for health. When we stop eating this way and start eating normally, we have more than some weight gain even beyond the baseline level. In one word there is a yo-yo effect. How to avoid it? Use rational diets, such as NSDs, and after their completion, introduce weight stabilization, i.e. slowly increasing the caloric supply to the normal level. Thanks to this, you will lose weight, keep the achieved result and avoid the yo-yo effect.
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