Brisk walking and jogging every day will not make you lose weight, but may easily lead to a physique that causes you to gain weight again? Don’t fall into these 3 weight loss traps

Brisk walking and jogging every day will not make you lose weight, but will instead make you prone to gaining weight again? Modern people are crazy about losing weight, whether it is traditional dieting, seemingly healthy jogging, or Chinese medicine acupuncture and thread embedding, they are brave enough to try them all. However, nutritionist Zheng Shijia said that these are all traps that weight losers can easily fall into. Without the correct concept, blindly implementing them can easily lead to weight regain, or even getting fatter.

Nutritionist Zheng Shijia, who often teaches people how to manage their weight, shares the three most common wrong ways of losing weight that people use during counseling, and provides correct concepts to help people fight obesity more effectively and stay away from the "yo-yo effect."

3 Wrong Ways to Lose Weight

Weight loss trap 1: Jogging or brisk walking every day

Many people who want to lose weight choose to jog every day as part of their regular exercise, but jogging or brisk walking are low-intensity exercises. The body can easily adapt to long-term low-intensity exercises, consume less body calories, and easily lose "fast muscle fibers" (also known as white muscle fibers, which belong to motor nerve units), which is actually not conducive to weight loss.

Exercise can help you lose weight, but the prerequisite is to gradually increase the intensity of exercise! For those who have never had the habit of exercising, you can adapt to brisk walking in the first week, speed up to jogging in the second week, and promote to sprinting in the third week. With the principle of not forcing yourself and not getting injured, gradually increase the amount of exercise, and let aerobic exercise run through the heart and lungs, until you can no longer speak a paragraph continuously, and can only say 2 or 3 words with a slight breath. This will improve the body's metabolic capacity, which in turn helps with weight loss.

Exercise can help you lose weight, but the prerequisite is to gradually increase the intensity of exercise! People who have never exercised before can adapt to brisk walking in the first week, then speed up to jogging in the second week, and then to running in the third week. The principle is not to force yourself and avoid getting injured.

However, if you want to improve your body's metabolic capacity, you must carefully consider the issue of "gaining muscle and reducing fat." Currently, weight training and TABATA (a type of high-intensity intermittent exercise) are common methods, but in order to avoid sports injuries, it is recommended to be led by a professional fitness or physical fitness coach. In addition, within 30 to 60 minutes after exercise, moderate supplementation of protein, carbohydrates and nutrients that can promote muscle repair and growth will have a better effect on muscle building and fat loss.

Weight loss trap 2: Dieting and low-calorie diets

This type of weight loss method mainly keeps the body in a state of starvation for a long time, forcing the smart body to choose to reduce the metabolic rate, causing the body to enter a protection mechanism, and tend to store calories as fat and consume muscle to generate energy. Although this method is effective in the short term, if it is implemented in the long term, it can easily lead to insufficient calorie intake, excessive muscle loss, and a repeated decrease in metabolic rate. Once you stop dieting one day, your weight will rebound explosively and you may even become fatter than before you lost weight.

In addition to regaining weight, drastic dieting and low-calorie diets can easily lead to nutritional imbalance in the long term, causing the body to be seriously deficient in vitamins and minerals, resulting in hidden hunger, and symptoms such as peeling of nail edges, poor spirits, dull skin, hair loss, cramps, migraines, dark circles under the eyes, etc., which in turn cause the body's organs' digestion, absorption, decomposition, and metabolism functions to decline, affecting overall health.

Intense dieting and low-calorie diets can easily lead to nutritional imbalances in the long term, causing serious vitamin and mineral deficiencies in the body and causing hidden hunger.

Weight loss trap 3: Acupuncture and thread embedding

In addition to diet and exercise to lose weight, nutritionist Zheng Shijia, who recently visited mainland China, said that people generally try traditional Chinese medicine methods such as acupuncture and thread embedding to help them lose weight successfully. However, she reminded that before taking any weight loss method, one must consult a qualified Chinese medicine practitioner and never try blindly, so as not to end up losing more than the gain and instead develop a physique that is prone to gaining weight again.

The practice of acupuncture mainly stimulates the relevant acupoints or meridians to inhibit nerves in order to reduce appetite or increase body metabolism. This method may be effective in the short term, but it should be noted that if the nerve function is inhibited for a long time, it is easy for the person losing weight to face symptoms such as low mood, sadness, and depression. Thread embedding uses the inflammatory response caused by foreign objects in the body to allow immune cells to remove the wire (foreign object) while removing nearby fat. Although this method has a short-term weight loss effect, it may cause weight gain once it is discontinued. There is also a risk of infection and allergy to the thread embedding material or alcohol, so it is not suitable for everyone.

【Health Tips】:

Nutritionist Zheng Shijia said that the reason why the above-mentioned weight loss methods are wrong is mainly because they only treat the symptoms and not the root cause. They only want to solve the obesity results caused by things happening, rather than finding out the causes of obesity. If you want to build a healthy, beautiful and charming body, it is recommended that you first consult a professional nutritionist or doctor to find out the root cause of your personal obesity, and then combine customized diet guidance and exclusive exercises to solve the problem once and for all.