Will you lose weight by not eating starch? Deciphering the 3 NG Weight Loss Methods

Obesity is the root of all diseases, but why can’t we lose weight? Chinese medicine practitioners point out that losing weight is actually very simple. The only way to lose weight is to consume more calories than you absorb. In weight loss clinics, it is often found that people have three NG weight loss methods, including: not eating starch, exercising to lose weight, and eating less to lose weight, which makes the shadow of obesity and weight regain still exist.

Thrifty genes convert food into energy

In his new book "Disease Calculation II", Lou Zhongliang, founding chairman of the Taiwan Traditional Chinese Medicine Preventive Health Care Association and a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, pointed out that there are many factors that cause obesity. Among them, there is a gene in the human body called the "thrifty gene". This gene can convert the food eaten into energy to the maximum extent for use by the body's functions.

Because activities including the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, as well as hormones and enzymes require calories, thrifty genes can convert what we eat into the energy needed by the human body. In particular, many people eat high-calorie foods, and just a little bit of nutrition will be excessive. Eating too much will naturally lead to fat accumulation and obesity.

NG weight loss method 1: Don’t eat starch

Chinese medicine practitioner Lou Zhongliang pointed out that many people think that they will lose weight if they do not eat starch. In fact, this way of eating can easily damage the stomach and intestines. A bad stomach and intestines can easily cause spleen yang deficiency, leading to insufficient yang in the body and decreased metabolic function. The first thing to do to lose weight is to have a correct concept: three meals a day must be eaten normally.

Many people who want to lose weight only eat protein and not starch. After a long time, problems will arise in the body because starch will be converted into carbon dioxide, water and energy after more than an hour. Basically, carbon dioxide and water are not bad for the body and will not harm the body. However, after more than 4 hours of conversion, protein will produce ammonia, urea, etc. These ingredients will cause considerable damage to the body over time.

The same goes for fats, especially saturated fatty acids and other lipids, which are very bad for the cardiovascular system and can easily lead to fatty liver. Therefore, you can eat less starch, but you cannot eat it all, because it is the most important source of calories.

There are many factors that contribute to obesity, but "eating less will make you thinner" is a misconception held by many people who want to lose weight.

NG weight loss method 2: Eat less to lose weight

Chinese medicine practitioner Lou Zhongliang pointed out that when faced with obesity, the common problem of modern people is often the word "laziness". Because they don't want to exercise, but want to maintain a slim figure, they have to eat as little as possible. Little do people know that insufficient calories or unbalanced nutrition will result in poor spleen and stomach function, which will not only cause wrinkles on the face, but women may also experience amenorrhea, which is not worth the cost.

There was a patient who weighed nearly 130 kg when he sought treatment and it took him more than a year to lose weight to 56 kg. Recently, there was also a patient who weighed 107 kg and it took him nearly 9 months to lose weight to 62 kg. But at the same time, there were also patients who took 3 or 4 months but only lost 5 to 6 kg.

When observing these patients carefully, it was found that the patient who lost weight from 130 kg to 56 kg did so because she followed the doctor's instructions for her three meals. If she used to eat one bowl of starch, now she eats half a bowl. The ratio of protein to vegetables is now more vegetables and less protein. She also walks to and from get off work every day, and sometimes even goes out to walk the dog at night.

Over a year, the patient's weight steadily decreased by 0.5 to 1 kg per week, with very short stagnation periods. In addition, the yang-tonifying medicines prescribed helped her spleen and stomach function normally and improved her body's yang energy. In the past, when she took the temperature under her tongue in the morning, it was only around 35℃ to 36℃, but later it increased to 36.8 to 36.9℃. An increase in body temperature means that metabolism increases. Combined with normal gastrointestinal digestion and metabolism, your weight will naturally drop slowly.

I would like to remind everyone that even if you eat very little, or only eat vegetables and fruits, your body will protest as long as the nutritional intake is insufficient, and will not let you lose even 0.1 kg.

Exercise to lose weight requires persistence, but many obese people choose to give up halfway.

NG weight loss method 3: exercise weight loss

Regarding whether exercise can help lose weight, many people feel that they exercise a lot but cannot lose weight. According to an international study, swimming for 60 minutes can reduce 4430 kilojoules, jogging can consume 2926 kilojoules, jogging can consume 2760 kilojoules, aerobic exercise can consume 1053 kilojoules, dancing can consume 1253 kilojoules, slow walking can consume 1066 kilojoules, and cycling for one hour can consume 769 kilojoules.

However, to completely burn 1 kg of fat, 29,260 kilojoules are needed. By this calculation, it means you have to swim for 7 hours to burn off 1 kg of fat. Other exercises such as skipping rope require even longer time. Therefore, losing weight through exercise cannot be achieved in a short period of time, but must be sustained for a long time.

In particular, there is another key point in losing weight, which is: 1. You will not lose weight by eating less; 2. You will not lose weight by not exercising; 3. You will not lose weight if you have a bad stomach; 4. You will not lose weight when the Yang Qi is insufficient, that is, the heart and lung function is insufficient and the body temperature is too low. If you can grasp these principles, your body shape will become very good and you will definitely lose weight.