Will drinking a lot of slimming tea in cold weather help you lose weight? Famous doctors debunk 3 myths about weight loss

As the saying goes: "Lose weight in summer and stay slim in winter, follow the seasons and lose weight easily!" If you want to get rid of winter fat, doctors remind you to start by strengthening your muscles, and after exercise, you should focus on "less starch and more protein", and dispel the "3 myths about winter weight loss", including: "Will drinking slimming tea or diuretics when it's cold help you lose weight?" Losing weight while the weather is still chilly can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Liu Bowen, executive director of the Taiwan Obesity Education and Prevention Association and an obesity specialist, pointed out that winter is a season when appetite increases. Many parties at the end of the year are bound to involve eating a lot of meat and fish. In addition, the cold weather makes people lazy to exercise, and the whole body becomes plump. If people do not want to suffer from "winter fat", controlling their diet and exercising regularly are the basic ways to lose weight in a healthy way.

Eliminate winter fat and eat less starch after exercise

If you want to get rid of winter fat, you should start by strengthening your muscles. Because muscles are the heroes behind calorie burning, if the body does not have enough muscles to burn enough calories, the body will have to store fat to prevent the calories from being lost. Coupled with sitting for a long time, obesity will quietly creep up on you in this vicious cycle.

If you want to increase muscle mass, it is best to eat less starch after exercise and supplement more protein to help muscle growth. Foods like chicken breast and red meat with less seasoning are good choices, but remember not to over-season them, otherwise you will accidentally consume a lot of fat or salt after exercise, which will greatly reduce your weight loss results.

To manage your weight well, you must first break these three myths

Dr. Liu Bowen emphasized that losing weight is not something that can be achieved overnight. If you want to get rid of winter fat, you should first break the three wrong myths, develop a good habit of measuring your weight every day, persevere, and do a good job of weight management. When the correct weight loss concept is internalized as a part of life, it will be as easy as breathing, and you can stay away from the vicious entanglement of winter fat.

Myth 1. In winter, you can’t eat before or after exercise?

Solution: Never exercise on an empty stomach before exercise, because exercising on an empty stomach will lower blood sugar and affect athletic performance, but excessive exercise will also cause a burden on the stomach. The best way is to refer to the amount of exercise. For example, eat until you are 60% full before light exercise, and start exercising half an hour later. Medium to high intensity exercise is best done 1 to 2 hours after a meal.

It is recommended to choose a refreshing lettuce salad with a banana. And within 30 minutes after exercise, you must replenish nutrition and protein and carbohydrates to help muscle repair. Choosing a light meal salad with both vegetables and meat is the smartest way to eat!

Myth 2. It’s cold, so eating fruit at night won’t make you fat?

Solution: Most people always like to have a plate of fruit after a meal, especially seasonal fruits which are delicious. Fruits are rich in vitamin C. In fact, you can eat them whenever you want, without any time limit. For example, the watermelons and cantaloupes that are in abundance recently are good choices.

However, if you like to eat fruits that are high in sugar, such as bananas, longans, lychees, persimmons, sugar cane, and candied dates, you need to consider more. Because these high-sugar fruits are rich in fructose and starch, if you choose to eat them at night, the sugar will accumulate in the body and cause obesity. People who want to control their body shape and weight must be careful!

Myth 3. Will drinking slimming tea or diuretics in cold weather help you lose weight?

Solution: It is often found in the outpatient clinic that some people drink slimming tea or use diuretics to lose weight in winter. In fact, this is a "cheating" way to lose weight, because diuretics can only reduce body water and cannot reduce body fat. Using drugs to make patients excrete large amounts of water, of course, they can stand on the scale and immediately lose 2 or 3 kilograms in a week, but it is just excreting water. Just like sweating profusely in an oven, your weight will go up immediately as soon as you drink water. The key point is that the body fat ratio of many people actually increases, and the purpose of losing weight is not really achieved.

【Intimate Reminder】：

In fact, eliminating winter fat is not difficult at all. Doctors remind people to avoid all-you-can-eat restaurants when dining together and to stick to the principle of not eating more than 80% full at each meal. Taking more hot spring baths, hot baths and drinking warm water are helpful for the basal metabolism in winter. In addition, you should still maintain at least 150 minutes of exercise per week. It is recommended to consume calories by "brisk walking" to achieve the goal of burning fat and losing weight healthily.