Excessive exercise makes you weak. Poria cocos and yam stewed pork replenishes qi and helps lose weight.

Exercise may not necessarily help you lose weight! Most people believe that exercising more is good for health, but many people exercise too much, resulting in insufficient Qi and blood. Not only does this fail to help with weight loss and metabolism, but it makes people more tired, and a variety of physical problems follow! Chinese medicine practitioners said that if you feel weak after exercise, you can cook "Poria cocos and yam stewed with pork" to eat, which can not only supplement nutrition, but also promote blood circulation and prolong the body's fat burning effect.

High-intensity exercise depletes your energy and hurts your body instead of keeping fit

Nowadays, many people are "one-day sports people". They don't have time to exercise on weekdays, but they exercise intensively on their days off, running for 3 hours, playing ball for half a day, or riding a bicycle all day. Zhou Zonghan, attending physician of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Ren'ai Branch of Taipei Municipal United Hospital, reminds us that long-term high-intensity exercise is an energy-consuming behavior from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine. It will weaken the immune system, affect mood and sleep, and increase the chance of acute injury to muscles or ligaments, leading to constant physical problems.

Two signs of overexercise: increased fatigue and difficulty controlling emotions

How do you know if you are exercising too much? It is normal to feel temporarily tired after exercise, but if you still feel tired the next day, or even if the fatigue tends to get worse, it means that you are likely in a state of over-exercise.

In addition, excessive exercise can also affect your endocrine system. After normal exercise, people are almost always in a positive and optimistic mood. However, after excessive exercise, people may sometimes "suddenly" feel impatient about some things, want to lose their temper, or even be unable to control the emotions overflowing from their hearts. This is a bit like the emotional changes of girls before their menstrual period. This is also one of the signs of excessive exercise.

Exercise consumes too much energy. 2 Medicinal Foods to Replenish Energy

If you accidentally over-exercise and your body consumes too much energy, Chinese medicine practitioner Zhou Zonghan recommends drinking "Qi-replenishing and Blood-stasis-removing Tea" or stewing "Poria cocos and Chinese yam stewed pork" to enhance vitality, improve fatigue, promote blood circulation and metabolism, and thus help lose weight.

【Qi-replenishing and blood-stasis-removing tea】

• Ingredients: 3 qian of Astragalus, 2 qian of Salvia miltiorrhiza, 2 qian of Hawthorn, and 3 qian of Ophiopogon japonicus.

• Method: Wash the herbs, pour in 600cc of boiling water and simmer for 15 minutes, or simmer over low heat for 10 minutes, and finally add a little rock sugar for seasoning.

• Description: Astragalus replenishes Qi and promotes the circulation of Qi and blood. Salvia miltiorrhiza can dredge blood vessels, promote blood circulation, and has the effect of nourishing blood and activating blood circulation. Hawthorn can promote qi circulation and relieve blood stasis, and it also has the effect of helping digestion and eliminating stagnation. Ophiopogon japonicus nourishes yin and moistens dryness, nourishes qi and strengthens the foundation.

【Pork stewed with tuckahoe and yam】

• Ingredients: 30 grams of Poria cocos, 30 grams of yam, and 200 grams of lean pork. A few wolfberries.

• practice:

  1. Wash the yam and poria with clean water and set aside.

  2. Place the casserole on the stove, add 1000 ml of water and Poria cocos, bring to a boil over high heat, and simmer over low heat for about 30 minutes.

  3. Slice the lean pork and marinate it with appropriate amount of salt.

  4. Take out the Poria cocos from the casserole, turn to high heat, add lean meat and yam, and after the lean meat changes color, add wolfberry and appropriate amount of salt to season and it is ready to eat.

• Description: Poria removes dampness and benefits joints, pork nourishes yin and moistens dryness, replenishes the middle and invigorates Qi, and yam strengthens the spleen and stomach. The combination of them can provide the human body with rich nutrients such as protein, fat and carbohydrates. It is very suitable to eat after exercise, which can both replenish Qi and help lose weight.

Exercise for health! These ideas are correct

However, compared to post-exercise diet therapy, establishing the concept of "regular exercise" is more important and is the fundamental way to maintain health. Chinese medicine practitioner Zhou Zonghan recommends that most people only need to exercise 3 days a week. Those who want to lose weight can increase the number to 5 days. It would be even better if you can develop a habit of moderate exercise every day.

Each exercise session should be 30 minutes long, which can be increased or decreased depending on the situation, but the shortest time should not be less than 10 minutes, and the longest time should not exceed 60 minutes without rest; whether it is continuous or indirect exercise, the total amount of exercise per day is 20 to 60 minutes.

The intensity of exercise can be between 110 and 150 heart beats per minute. If you cannot calculate the heart rate, you can judge by your breathing. If you feel breathless after exercise and can speak normally but not sing, it is enough. If you are out of breath, it means you have overdone it. In addition, you need to do 10 to 15 minutes of warm-up exercises before exercise so that the body can safely carry out various activities and reduce the occurrence of accidental injuries.