As the Lunar New Year passed day by day, many office workers have returned to work to get on with their lives. Most people must eat well and sleep well during the Lunar New Year holiday. But what should I do if I find myself putting on weight after returning to my normal life? Want to lose weight but don’t have the willpower? It doesn’t matter, develop these habits and you will lose weight over time!
1. Check your weight every day
Many weight-loss programs advise dieters to weigh themselves only once a week, but researchers at the University of Minnesota found that weighing yourself once a day was more effective in preventing weight gain in the long run.
2. Having breakfast is important
According to the American Journal of Epidemiology, people who skip breakfast are 4.5 times more likely to be obese. Breakfast is a crucial meal to kick-start and speeds up your metabolism throughout the day. It helps to drain bile, dilute your blood, and raise your blood sugar so your body has enough energy to burn calories. But do not eat too heavy breakfast, it will also cause obesity.
3. Drink more water
Researchers at The Virginia Institute of Technology found that people who drank two glasses of water before each meal ate less and lost more than 30 percent more body fat every twelve weeks than those who didn’t drink water. Not only that, but water is vital to the body’s metabolism. Of course, this refers to drinking plain water.
4. Only control calorie intake but not over diet
Anyone who has lost weight knows that dieting is not a smart way to lose weight. Not only will it cause muscle loss, affect metabolism, but it is also very likely to make people suffer from the terrible anorexia. From the aspect of diet, the best way is to control the intake of calories and follow the principle of low-fat, high-fiber, high-protein diet.
5. Choose to eat healthy
Since caloric restriction is absolutely critical to weight loss success, those who do lose weight without gaining it back care about what they eat. They avoid to eat junk food and the highly processed foods readily available in supermarkets in favor of having healthy foods such as oats, dragon fruit, brown rice, and sweet potatoes.
6. Try to keep away from junk food
Although fried chicken, potato chips, milk tea, and other junk food are delicious, but also high in calories. Saturated fat in junk food will not only quickly accumulate in various parts of the body, but also burden the gastrointestinal work, and are unhealthy for blood vessels and the heart. If you can’t control yourself, only allow yourself to eat once a week, but don’t overeat either!
7. Do not stay up late
The harm of staying up late is well known, in addition to reducing the body’s vitality, inhibiting the metabolic level of the body to become easy to fat constitution, but also seriously affect the health of the body. With good sleep, you can recharge your body, giving it more power to burn calories and metabolize them. Plus, by going to bed earlier, you won’t be so bored that you need a late-night snack all the time, which indirectly helps reduce your calorie intake. If you want to raise a thin body, you have to let the body have regular work and rest habits.
With these good habits, you can lose weight even if you don’t have the motivation or time to exercise!
