Find out before losing weight! 4 major body types, each with its own unique tricks

"Losing weight" has always been a hot topic in the summer. Many people try their best to achieve their ideal body shape, including diet control and exercise. However, after all the efforts, not everyone can achieve satisfactory results. Chinese medicine practitioners suggest that you should first find out your body type and prescribe the right medicine to make weight loss more effective!

Generally speaking, women's body shapes can be divided into six types: pear-shaped, apple-shaped, combination-shaped, banana-shaped, very thin-shaped and hourglass-shaped. Effective body shaping methods vary depending on where fat is most easily accumulated. Chinese medicine practitioner Lai Ruixin analyzes them one by one as follows. Come and find out which diet and exercise are suitable for you!

Body type 1: Pear

Physical characteristics／

There is more fat accumulation below the waist, the upper body is slender, and the body lines look like a pear, which is a common body shape for Asian women.

Common symptoms／

The lower body is prone to edema and poor metabolic capacity, and is prone to gastrointestinal discomfort such as abdominal distension. Some patients also experience fatigue, weakness, and loose muscles.

Weight loss advice／

Diet: Dr. Lai Ruixin, a Chinese medicine practitioner, reminds that patients with pear-shaped breasts should avoid cold foods such as iced drinks and ice products.

Exercise: It is recommended to alternate aerobic exercises that improve cardiopulmonary capacity, such as running, swimming, and cycling, with muscle strength training, such as weight training and suspension training (TRX), for better weight loss results.

Body type 2: Apple

Physical characteristics／

The arms, abdomen, and back have more fat, making the upper body look bloated and bulky, like an apple, while the lower body is slender.

Common symptoms／

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, people with an apple-shaped body tend to feel thirsty and hungry easily, so they often drink water and eat a larger amount; in addition, their stools may be drier and harder.

Weight loss advice／

Diet: Chinese medicine practitioner Lai Ruixin pointed out that patients with apple-shaped bodies often have the habit of eating greasy foods and staying up late. He suggested increasing the intake of fresh vegetables to help reduce constipation and regulate the body. When drinking water, it is recommended to replace ice water with warm water to promote metabolism.

Exercise: It is recommended to try muscle strength training such as lifting dumbbells and push-ups, which will help sculpt the upper body. In addition, you can also strengthen arm massage to increase the fat-burning effect.

The next page will continue to answer your questions:

What should we do if we have comprehensive type of systemic obesity? How to control food intake?

Body type three: comprehensive

Physical characteristics／

The combined type is an apple-shaped plus a pear-shaped body shape, that is, systemic obesity. It is usually congenital, and the process of physical conditioning and weight loss is more difficult, but as long as the weight loss is successful, it can usually be lost evenly.

Common symptoms／

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, patients with a complex body type have both the cold constitution common in the pear type and the damp-heat constitution common in the apple type, presenting a comprehensive constitution of "heat on top and cold on the bottom". Therefore, if they consume too much cold food, it is easy to cause diarrhea and abdominal pain; but if they consume too much hot food, it is also easy to get a sore throat.

Weight loss advice／

Diet: Chinese medicine practitioner Lai Ruixin said that patients with a complex body type must pay special attention to their diet and should choose mild foods, such as protein-rich foods such as soybeans, eggs, fish, lean meat, and fresh fruits and vegetables rich in vitamins; and reduce high-starch or high-sugar foods such as potatoes, lotus root powder, honey, fruit juice, and cakes.

It should be noted that people with systemic obesity should still adhere to the principles of healthy weight loss when losing weight. If they need to control their food intake, it is recommended to adopt the "decreasing method" to gradually reduce their daily food intake rather than blindly dieting or suddenly stopping eating.

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In addition to diet control, continuous exercise is also important! It is recommended to choose exercises that strengthen the core muscles, which will help to tighten the muscle lines and make you look slimmer visually.

In addition, Chinese medicine practitioner Lai Ruixin said that when exercising the core muscles, you can also exercise the pelvic floor muscles at the same time, which can help improve intestinal relaxation and weakness caused by long-term constipation, avoid uterine prolapse due to aging, improve urinary incontinence, and strengthen the firmness of the private parts. There are many benefits. If you want to strengthen your exercise, you can practice Kegel exercises.

The next page will explain in detail:

What to do with a banana-shaped body that lacks a waist? Can I increase my waistline by eating?

Body type 4: Banana

Physical characteristics／

The so-called banana-shaped body is close to the generally known straight body, with shoulders and hips of similar width, relatively no waist, and an overall less curvy look.

Weight loss advice／

diet:

Even if their waist is not obvious, banana-shaped people are usually not fat and their body fat percentage is not high. If you want to increase your waistline, it is recommended to increase your weight moderately through diet, and then increase your muscles through exercise, which can highlight your lines and make your whole body more symmetrical.

Every increase of about 3,500 calories can increase about 0.5 kg of body weight. Therefore, if you increase 300 to 500 calories per day, you can increase 0.5 kg of body weight in 1 to 2 weeks.

Chinese medicine practitioner Lai Ruixin recommends that people with a banana-shaped body should increase their milk intake for breakfast. If you are used to drinking black tea, you might as well switch to milk. If you are not suitable for drinking milk, you can drink soy milk instead. After breakfast and before lunch, it is recommended to add a snack, such as 3 to 6 biscuits, to increase the intake of calories and sugars.

After lunch and before dinner, have another snack. You can choose 1 portion of fruit and 1 portion of nuts to supplement calories and monounsaturated fatty acids. In addition to carbohydrates, fats and proteins, don't forget to increase your intake of vegetables in your main meals.

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It should be noted that the above-mentioned dietary adjustments are not intended to gain weight first and then build muscle, because muscle is not converted from fat. Chinese medicine practitioner Lai Ruixin pointed out that after having enough calories, it is necessary to combine it with regular exercise (including some weight training such as push-ups and dumbbell lifting) to effectively utilize the increased calories, convert them into body muscles, and create a more curvaceous body shape.

The last page also tells you:

Why do extremely thin people never gain weight?

TCM treatment can help improve poor digestion and inability to gain weight

In addition to the above four body types, there are two other types of female body types: extremely thin type and hourglass type. Extremely thin people often have weak gastrointestinal function due to congenital digestion and absorption problems, and they have a physique that "can't gain weight". Therefore, their body shape is extremely slim. Their gastrointestinal function can be improved through Chinese medicine conditioning. As for people with hourglass figures, they have slim waists, plump breasts and hips, and obvious curves, so they have less trouble losing weight.

Maintaining good living habits can help you lose weight in a long-lasting way

I would like to remind everyone that if you want to lose weight, you must seek healthy weight loss methods, maintain a balanced diet, regular exercise, and a normal lifestyle. You can also use professional Chinese medicine to assist in weight loss. Do not pursue rapid weight loss through wrong methods such as not eating staple foods, not eating regular meals, and only eating fruits and vegetables, so as to avoid falling into a vicious cycle of gaining weight again, which is not good for your health and will not be worth the loss!