Weight loss stagnated and can’t lose weight? Prepare 2 dietary therapies to defeat the fat alliance more effectively

Summer is here, but you still can’t get rid of the fat you accumulated from eating and drinking last winter? Are you discouraged when your weight loss reaches a plateau? Chinese medicine practitioners urge people not to give up on themselves, to develop a correct "step-by-step" weight loss concept, to adjust the amount of exercise appropriately, and through the help of dietary therapy such as tangerine peel, hawthorn and winter melon, defeating the fat alliance is just around the corner!

It is common in clinical practice that patients who want to lose weight lose weight at first, but their weight stagnates after a period of time and they lose confidence in losing weight. In fact, this is normal. It would be a pity if you fall into a low ebb and give up losing weight at this time.

Step-by-step healthy weight loss: no more than 1 kg per week is just right

Zhou Zonghan, attending physician at the Ren'ai branch of Taipei Municipal United Hospital, said that obesity is a result of accumulation over time, and losing weight is naturally not something that can be achieved overnight. A step-by-step approach must be taken to achieve the goal. The plateau period that every person who wants to lose weight will encounter does not mean the "lower limit of weight" or "cannot lose any more weight", but it means that the body is adapting to the new weight, and you must wait until the body adapts to the new weight before you can continue to lose weight. In addition, because of this period of adaptation, the chance of gaining weight again in the future will be relatively small.

Chinese medicine practitioner Zhou Zonghan emphasized that a healthy and effective weight loss process should be "step-by-step", with the recommended weight loss per week not exceeding 0.5 to 1 kg, rather than a linear decline. If your weight drops sharply while you are losing weight, your body will not have enough time to adapt, and not only will you easily gain weight again, it will also cause physiological and metabolic disorders, which will in turn damage your health.

Shorten the weight loss plateau period, increase exercise + diet control

Although every person who wants to lose weight will experience a plateau period, some people can quickly overcome the plateau and move on to the next stage of weight loss, while others seem to be trapped in a quagmire and cannot extricate themselves. So, how can we shorten the weight loss plateau? In addition to increasing the amount of exercise to improve the basal metabolic rate, diet control is also important. Chinese medicine practitioner Zhou Zonghan recommends moderately reducing the intake of starch, fat and sugar at dinner, such as peanuts, potatoes, walnuts, sesame seeds and various fried foods, candies, jams, etc.

Chinese medicine can help you~overcome the weight plateau period, prepare 2 dietary therapies quickly

In addition, speed up metabolism through food and Chinese herbal medicine in moderation. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that obesity is mostly caused by a weak spleen, insufficient vital energy, and internal retention of phlegm and dampness. Therefore, if you want to lose weight healthily, the most important thing is to take good care of your "spleen"! Chinese medicine practitioner Zhou Zonghan recommends that when you encounter a weight loss plateau, you can make some tangerine peel tea to drink. Tangerine peel has the effects of regulating qi and strengthening the spleen, drying dampness and resolving phlegm, and can help metabolism.

【Chenpi Tea】

• Ingredients: 10 grams of tangerine peel and appropriate amount of tea.

• Preparation method: Wash the tangerine peel, tear it into small pieces, put it into a teacup together with tea leaves, pour in hot water, cover the cup and simmer for about 10 minutes, remove the residue, and drink it after it cools down a little.

• Reminder: Most people can drink this tea, but those with severe internal heat, dry cough without phlegm, or those who sweat easily should use it as little as possible or not at all.

In addition to nourishing the spleen, cooking some winter melon soup during the weight loss stagnation period and adding a little hawthorn and lotus leaves which have the effect of eliminating accumulation and reducing fat can also help break down body fat faster and overcome obesity.

【Hawthorn and Winter Melon Soup】

• Ingredients: 300 grams of winter melon, 50 grams of dried mushrooms, 10 grams of hawthorn, 1/2 lotus leaf, and appropriate amount of water.

• practice:

  1. Peel the winter melon and cut into pieces; soak the mushrooms and remove the stems.

  2. Pour water into a soup pot, add hawthorn and lotus leaves, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 10 minutes. Filter the juice and set aside.

  3. Put winter melon, mushrooms and medicinal juice into a ceramic pot and stew until the winter melon is cooked, then add salt to taste.

• Description: Winter melon can clear away heat and promote diuresis, lotus leaves and shiitake mushrooms can regulate blood pressure and blood lipids, while also enhancing immunity. Warm soup can increase the basal metabolic rate and burn fat more efficiently.