The hotter, the fatter! How to lose weight in summer for people with hot constitution

The hot and humid weather in summer is very uncomfortable for people with hot constitution. People with this heat-phobic and restless physique want to exercise to lose weight, but because they sweat easily, they just want to hide in an air-conditioned room. At the same time, they always want to drink cold drinks and eat ice to cool off and quench their thirst. However, this will not only fail to dissipate the body's heat, but will also make the body more and more inflamed. The dryness and heat in the body will be suppressed by these cold foods and accumulated in the body, turning into damp heat and then into fat.

The focus of weight loss in summer is to expel heat and moisture from the body. Avoid excessive strength training during exercise. The diet should be light, avoiding heavy flavors and barbecue. You should also drink some warm and fat-burning tea from time to time to avoid dampness and heat in the stomach and intestines, which will cause fat around the waist. In addition, try to reduce the time you stay in an air-conditioned room to prevent the body from losing heat and causing water to accumulate in the body and cause edema.

Areas prone to obesity: waist, internal organs

The weather is hot and humid in summer. If people with a hot constitution cannot adapt to the environment and particularly like to eat ice cream, their waistlines will become fatter and their visceral fat will increase.

Common reasons for weight loss failure: love of cold drinks causes fat accumulation

If people with a hot constitution only know how to eat small meals frequently but do not know how to choose the correct way to eat, they will become constipated due to lack of fat-burning power or nutrition, causing toxins to accumulate and make them fat. In most cases, drinking too much ice water will cause poor abdominal circulation and cause local fat accumulation in the abdomen.

Dietary precautions:

It is advisable to eat more foods that strengthen the spleen and stomach, aid digestion and drainage, such as lentils, coix seed, winter melon, water spinach, amaranth, celery, bitter melon, as well as foods that clear away heat, detoxify and reduce internal heat, such as mung beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, lotus roots, etc. Avoid heavy-flavored seasonings and eat less spicy, oily or cold foods to avoid damaging the stomach and intestines and reducing digestion and metabolism.

Thermal Fertilizer

Avoid cold water, soak your feet in hot water to help metabolism

Ms. J, who works as a manager of an electronics company, came to see the doctor after being introduced by a friend. She is tall and strong, and she wants to adjust her body because of her recent menstrual irregularities, and also wants to make her long-standing figure slimmer. Miss J spoke quickly and loudly. She entered the consulting room wearing a vest dress, but she kept fanning herself because she was afraid of the heat. She said that since the beginning of summer she must drink ice beer every day to cool off and quench her thirst. Because she is busy with work and her meals are irregular, she just eats quickly when she has time. She doesn't eat a lot, but she must eat meat.

I don’t know if it’s because of the hot and humid weather, but I’ve been particularly irritable at night lately. Besides having trouble sleeping, there is discharge in my eyes after I get up, and I only have bowel movements a few days a week. This condition is more obvious before menstruation comes. In addition to acne on the face, sores on the mouth, and bad breath, my waist circumference increases by three centimeters.

Dr. Peng's advice on weight loss during the menstrual cycle

In the hot and humid summer weather, Miss J did not know how to eliminate the dampness and heat in her body, which disrupted her metabolism. People with a hot constitution must know how to control their diet in the summer. Not only should they keep their meals light, but they must also eat each meal in a fixed amount and on time. During the low temperature period when metabolism is relatively low, the diet should enhance the effect of removing moisture and blood stasis, and exercise and rest should focus on dissipating heat and promoting circulation; during the high temperature period, heat dissipation and detoxification should be enhanced to transform the body into a peaceful physique that is easy to lose weight.

For the full text, please refer to the book "Lose Weight with the Four Seasons" published by Ye Ren Culture.