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Text / Li Yingda (Physician at the Taoyuan Cihang Chinese Medicine Clinic)
At the age of forty, you clearly still maintain your original food intake and lifestyle habits, why is your body gaining weight uncontrollably?
There are 3 reasons to put on weight after 40 years.
There are three reasons why you are particularly prone to gaining weight after age 40 and are difficult to lose.
1. Physical degradation and aging. After middle age, the metabolism slows down, the body begins to age and you will feel tired, you will lose hair, dry skin and your knees will not be flexible. The more this is, the less you want to exercise, the body’s muscle mass will naturally decrease, fat is easy to accumulate in the body, causing people to gain weight slowly.
2. Gastrointestinal function worsens. Gastrointestinal function deteriorates, causing indigestion, bloating, small abdominal protrusion, and edema.
Chinese medicine believes that the spleen is the main center of fluid metabolism. If there is a problem with digestion of the spleen and stomach, the water will flood the body. Just like if the city sewer is blocked, water will flood everywhere. Modern people like to eat fried foods and love frozen drinks, which damage the spleen and stomach. Therefore, bad eating habits should be changed: even in summer, you should eat hot food, drink more boiled water, not eat, the spleen and stomach improve and you will lose weight gradually.
3. Menopausal factors. During menopause, decreased estrogen will slow metabolism and increase weight, it is easy to accumulate fat in the lower abdomen and make the waist circumference thicker.
Would you like to lose weight without dinner?
To avoid gaining weight, many people have begun to adopt the “no dinner” method. Is this possible?
In ancient times, practitioners said that they would not eat after lunch, that is, that they would no longer eat after noon (11-1 noon). However, at that time the cultivator was in a monastery or deep mountain, and went to bed at 7 or 8 in the afternoon, had breakfast at 4 in the morning, and then started working, so that’s fine don’t dine. People don’t live like this now, so “no lunch” doesn’t work.
Think about it. After eating at 12 noon and working in the afternoon, some people have to work at night and go to bed late. At 8 o’clock the next day, they will have breakfast. For 20 hours, who can’t bear it?
In fact, it is enough to eat less for dinner and eat more vegetables. If you are hungry before bed, you can have a glass of milk or eat some apples. Do not eat before bed when you are less used to dinner, to avoid gaining weight.
Ways to stay fit without starvation
So after 40 years, how to maintain a good figure without being hungry?
1. Calculate heat and quantify regularly. Calculate calories when eating. For example, the calories required in a day are 1800-2000 calories, and the food contains 30% fat, 60% carbohydrates and 10% protein. The purpose of the calculation is to eat the correct amount. After getting used to the portion you don’t need to calculate. In addition, three meals should be rationed regularly, not eat fried foods, not eat sweets after meals.
2. Don’t eat cold food. Like drinking cold drinks or eating cold foods, it is easy to cause gastrointestinal contractions. Gastrointestinal contraction and blood vessel contraction will worsen metabolism.
Also, the stomach and intestines like heat and don’t like humidity or cold. Cold food easily accumulates in the intestine, causing indigestion, abdominal enlargement, bloating, and other symptoms, and also making people fat. Especially for people with a cold physique, try not to eat too many melon fruits, pears, dragon fruit, or drink too much green tea, coffee, green tea, etc.
3. Sleep in moderation. The right amount of sleep can balance your body and mind, not only healthily, but it is also not easy to gain weight even after middle age. Don’t sleep too much or don’t get enough sleep. If you don’t get enough sleep, you will get tired, have a headache, poor work efficiency, irritability, anxiety, irritability, overeating, etc. Too much sleep, Chinese medicine said in “five jobs and seven injuries,” prolonged sleep injury, injury is a lung injury, because sleeping too much, people are more angry, the body’s metabolism slows down, lung capacity is reduced, Swelling or edema is easy.
4. Keep moving. I suggest doing simple exercises every day, that is, walking. Walk vigorously for more than 30 minutes, persevere. Walking can not only reduce weight, but it also makes people healthy. When the human body is active, it will increase metabolism, promote blood circulation, and strengthen the body. The advantage of walking is simple, and it is a sport that you can do anytime, anywhere.
5. Close to nature. When people are under great pressure, they are also prone to anxiety, irritability, insomnia, overeating, etc., and will gain weight unconsciously. Going to nature is often one of the most effective methods of relieving stress, allowing you to achieve physical and mental balance and a happy state of mind.
In the end, I also share my own experience with readers. I have been practicing medicine for over 20 years, and some old patients often ask me: Dr. Li, how do you take care of yourself and your body has not changed in over ten years! I will tell you that I am going to practice Falun Gong outdoors every morning. Falun Gong is a type of practice that combines life and life: it is to cultivate the body, eliminate diseases and keep fit, and cultivate the mind and be a good person according to the principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. Thus, it can not only keep the body in good condition, but also increase the capacity and cultivation of the heart. In busy real life, it is not easy to cause stress and cause weight gain. Falun Gong movements are slow, slow and round, suitable for both men and women, children and boys. We could also try to understand and practice Falun Gong through the Zhuan Falun book. Especially when the plague is raging now, it can be beneficial to people’s physical and mental health.
(Transferred from The Epoch Times / Editor in charge: Zhang Xinyan)
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