Can drinking salt water help you lose weight? Famous weight loss doctor: Be careful of the high risk of regaining weight

Can drinking salt water help you lose weight? The internet has recently been buzzing with a story about a celebrity wife blogger sharing a weight loss secret recipe: "Drink 500cc of salt water and then 2500cc of boiled water the day after giving birth, and you can lose 10 kg in 2 months." Doctors point out that rapid weight loss carries a high risk of weight gain. In fact, drinking salt water does not help with weight loss. People with heart or kidney disease should be especially careful about drinking too much water. Drinking too much can lead to water poisoning.

A blogger who is a wife, has a physique that is prone to obesity and suffers from postpartum obesity. In order to get rid of body fat, she created her own "salt water weight loss" method. Every morning, she drinks 500cc of warm salt water and then 2500cc of boiled water. After 2 months, she really lost more than 10 kilograms. She shared the story on her blog a few days ago, which sparked heated discussion.

Drinking salt water to lose weight may induce kidney disease

Liu Bowen, executive director of the Taiwan Obesity Prevention and Treatment Education Association and a weight loss specialist, pointed out that if you want to lose weight, you must be mentally prepared for a long-term battle. A safe rate of weight loss is to lose 0.5 to 1 kg per week, and maintaining the lost weight for more than 1 year is considered a successful weight loss. If you lose weight quickly, the risk of regaining weight will increase, which will raise alarms for your health.

There is no scientific basis for drinking salt water to lose weight, because drinking too much salt water may induce kidney disease. Although drinking water can promote metabolism, usually a person should drink 2000cc to 3000cc of water a day. Drinking too much may cause water poisoning, and even adding salt will not help. Such rapid weight loss methods are more likely to lead to the risk of regaining weight.

Being patient in losing weight reduces the risk of regaining weight

Drinking water can promote metabolism, but drinking salt water to lose weight can easily increase the burden on the body and increase the risk of gaining weight again.

Dr. Liu Boen emphasized that losing weight is easier said than done. In addition to setting reasonable goals, the next thing is patience, determination and perseverance. Taking losing half a kilogram per week as an example, losing 1 kilogram of fat requires 7,700 calories, and losing half a kilogram requires 3,850 calories, which is evenly distributed over 7 days, which means consuming 550 calories more per day.

The effective way to lose weight is to "eat less and exercise more"! If you consume these 550 calories by eating less and dieting to lose weight, it will be effective at first, but after a certain point, you will not be able to lose weight anymore because your body's basal metabolic rate will decrease. If you eat less, your body will naturally use less. Moreover, if you lose weight by dieting for more than 90%, you are more likely to gain weight again.

No weight gain after childbirth, healthy eating and no fat

Secondly, the most difficult thing to do during the weight loss process is exercise. Although it is easy to eat less, it is difficult for most people to spend extra time on exercise and do more than one hour of aerobic exercise every day to burn 300 calories. Therefore, it is best to start by changing your lifestyle and walking more to increase calorie consumption.

As for how to lose weight after childbirth and avoid gaining weight again, you should still maintain a balanced nutrition, be more active, and take a gradual approach.

• 1. Don’t try to diet: dieting affects the recovery of body functions and can easily cause the body’s basal metabolic rate to decrease, causing you to gain more weight.

• 2. Set goal rewards: Set some small goals and give yourself some innovative rewards. For example, if you lose half a kilogram every month, you can buy yourself some small gifts to reward yourself. At the same time, develop a habit of recording your diet, writing down the food you eat every day to remind yourself to avoid overeating.

• 3. Balanced nutritional intake: Try to eat less fat and fried foods, such as scallion pancakes, braised pork rice, fried chicken, etc. Starch is a source of calories and sugar, so it should be consumed in an appropriate and balanced manner. Take at least 8 glasses of water (about 2000cc), 3 kinds of vegetables and 2 servings of fruit every day.

• 4. Postpartum weight loss exercise: Continuous exercise will increase the body's basal metabolic rate and can effectively maintain a slim body shape. You can start doing abdominal muscle contractions and sit-ups 14 days after delivery; you have to wait 6 weeks before you can resume aerobic dance.