Zhao Wei lost 12kg by drinking sweet potato soup and red date soup? Doctor: Be careful of becoming more hungry and thirsty when drinking soup to lose weight

Female celebrities all like to be praised: "The thinner you are, the more fairy-like you are!" The media recently disclosed that in order to look good in front of the camera when appearing on a TV show, mainland Chinese actress Zhao Wei lost weight by drinking soups such as red date soup and sweet potato soup, and eating vegetable and fruit plates with cucumbers, apples, and pears in one month. As she wished, she lost 12kg, and her originally slightly plump figure was transformed into an A4 paper-thin waist, making her an enviable "fairy." Domestic weight loss specialists say that drinking soup as a meal can increase fullness and reduce appetite, but it may cause hunger and thirst, and make you gain weight.

Celebrity loses 12kg in one month by drinking soup and eating vegetable and fruit plate

Let's first look at the key points of Zhao Wei's weight loss diet as reported by the media. It is to replace a meal with soup and a vegetable and fruit plate, including her favorite red date soup, sweet potato soup, kelp sprout soup, etc., and then pair it with a plate of cucumbers, apples, and pears. This is equivalent to replacing the intake of a meal. However, she also occasionally cooks vegetable, tofu and egg drop soup as one of her three meals a day. In addition to taking in high-quality plant protein, she also gets the dietary fiber from vegetables and the nutrition from eggs.

Liu Boen, executive director of the Taiwan Obesity Education and Prevention Association and a weight loss specialist, said that it is generally popular to use liquid soups made with different soup bases as meal replacements for weight loss. The principle is to use liquid food, with its low density and large volume, to increase the feeling of fullness and reduce calorie intake. Some will also be paired with some fruits and vegetables to meet the taste requirements. The principle is also to use the principle of low heat to limit the accumulation of heat.

Blind spot of drinking soup to lose weight: after reducing appetite for a period of time, hunger and thirst will arise

However, this method of weight loss may be able to reduce calorie intake in the short term, but its weight loss effect is still limited. The reasons for gaining weight can be mainly divided into two categories: one is slower metabolism, the other is better appetite. The above-mentioned soup weight loss method only uses the volume of water to achieve a sense of fullness, thereby reducing appetite. But after a period of time, our body will quickly regain its "hunger" for food calories and even want to eat more food.

Let’s take a look at Zhao Wei’s soup recipe, which contains starches such as sweet potatoes and coix seeds. It seems that she pays attention to the basic calorie intake, but is this calorie enough? Dr. Liu Boen said that the normal distribution of nutrients is vegetables and fruits: starch: protein = 3:2:1. If the food is mainly based on starch such as sweet potatoes or coix seeds as a source of calories, because 1 gram of starch can only produce 4 calories, if you want to cope with each person's daily basal metabolic rate calories (boys are about 1400 calories, girls are about 1200 calories), you may have to consume more starch to maintain basic metabolic calories. However, it is reminded that according to the Klebsiella cycle principle, too much starch will also be converted into fat, thus causing obesity.

Klebsiella cycle refers to an aerobic reaction that produces ATP energy in the body. It is a biochemical reaction that takes place in the mitochondria of cells. Glucose produces energy for the body through this reaction, but if there is too much sugar (exceeding physiological needs), it will be converted into fat and stored!

The order in which food should be eaten in a meal: vegetables first? Eat meat first? Or drink soup first?

In what order should food be eaten during a meal? Should vegetables be eaten first? Eat meat first? Or drink soup first? Dr. Liu Boen said that the general order of healthy eating is to eat vegetables that contain more dietary fiber first, then protein foods such as fish, and finally foods containing carbohydrates such as rice and noodles. Because according to physiological mechanisms, after food enters the stomach, it enters the duodenum after digestion, which causes blood sugar to rise. At this time, the brain will produce a sense of fullness. Therefore, there is some time gap between the real physiological fullness point and the brain's sense of fullness.

Therefore, if you eat dietary fiber first, you will feel fuller because of its larger volume. The advantage of eating starch last is that gastrointestinal motility has already been activated and insulin has begun to be secreted. When starchy food enters the gastrointestinal tract, there will be sufficient secretion to break down the starch. Drinking soup is usually put first, because soup is a liquid component, a low-density food, and has a relatively large volume, which can increase the feeling of fullness. If you drink soup after finishing a meal, it may dilute the concentration of digestive enzymes and reduce their physiological digestive reaction function, which may cause adverse effects such as bloating or digestive disorders.

The key to losing weight without regaining it: lose weight to the point of fat, not dehydration, so as not to regain weight

Losing weight successfully without gaining weight back is a very troublesome problem. The most common and frustrating thing for friends who want to lose weight is that they easily gain weight again. The main reason for this is that they did not take appropriate measures to address the cause of obesity in the first place. Of course, there are many causes of obesity. Thirty or forty years ago, many people did not think that obesity was a disease. It was not until about a decade ago that the US FDA defined obesity as a physiological disease and even allowed insurance to cover obesity treatment.

Therefore, the strategy to avoid gaining weight again is actually to prevent the disease from recurring. However, the recurrence rate of obesity is quite high. In fact, losing weight is not difficult, but not gaining weight again is the real skill. Generally speaking, weight loss must be done to reduce fat rather than dehydration to avoid gaining weight again. In addition to losing fat, it is more important to increase muscle content, because many obese people have sarcopenia. Therefore, in the process of losing weight, it is important to include muscle gaining activities. In addition to reducing fat, if you can increase your muscle mass appropriately, the rate of regaining weight will be reduced.