Shorten the weight loss period, massage before meals to eliminate fat and control appetite

After the Chinese New Year, the company's spring banquet, Valentine's Day and Lantern Festival arrived one after another. The office workers' greedy desire could not resist the temptation of food. After eating for just a few days, their waists and abdomens gained a lot of weight, and chronic diseases such as obesity, constipation, high blood lipids and high blood sugar all came to them. Chinese medicine practitioners say that one should seize the one-month golden period after the Chinese New Year to lose weight. They recommend acupoint massage before meals, which can strengthen the spleen and regulate qi, suppress appetite, and improve weight loss results.

If the calories consumed from the diet are greater than the calories metabolized by the body, they will be stored as fat in the body, causing obesity.

Seize the golden month of weight loss after the Chinese New Year

Many people overeat between the New Year and the Lantern Festival, which causes excessive calories and fat to accumulate in their bodies. They gain an average of about 2 kilograms and their bodies become deformed. Chinese medicine practitioner Chen Meifei recommends that people should implement a weight loss plan when their weight starts to soar. It is best to seize the golden period of one month after the New Year to improve the weight loss results, so as to avoid delaying for a long time and making it more difficult to lose weight.

Weight loss is a "calorie balance" action. If the calories consumed by diet are greater than the calories metabolized by the body, they will be converted into fat and stored in the body, forming obesity. Therefore, if you want to lose weight successfully, in addition to increasing the body's basal metabolic rate, your personal eating habits must also be controlled to avoid eating large amounts of food or eating high-calorie foods.

Chinese medicine for overeating obesity helps to reduce weight by clearing away heat and regulating qi

In terms of weight loss and conditioning in traditional Chinese medicine, obese people with a BMI of 24 or above generally have a constitution that causes long-term stagnation of phlegm and dampness, as well as qi stagnation and blood stasis, which can easily increase the risk of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases. People who like to drink cold drinks and eat cold foods may also suffer from obesity. Their physique tends to be damp and they have cold blood. They need to take prescriptions of herbs that strengthen the spleen, remove dampness, and activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis in order to regulate their qi and blood and help them lose weight.

Acupuncture point diagram. (Photography by Hong Yuqi)

Chinese medicine practitioner Chen Meifei said that if obesity is caused by eating too much rich and greasy food, it is easy to have symptoms such as poor water metabolism and circulation, edema, food accumulation, stomach fire, constipation, bloating, indigestion, dampness and heat in the spleen and stomach, etc., and it is necessary to regulate the physical condition with drugs such as removing dampness and phlegm, strengthening the spleen, and clearing stomach fire, promote the normal functioning of the body and gastrointestinal motility, strengthen metabolism, and thus improve the weight loss effect.

Hawthorn can eliminate meat accumulation; Shenqu aids digestion; Zhishi, Chenpi and Magnolia officinalis can help regulate qi and promote gastrointestinal motility. They are all common Chinese herbal medicines that help lose weight, but it is recommended that a professional Chinese medicine practitioner should first make an appropriate prescription based on your personal constitution to avoid harming your body.

Lose weight faster! Massage 5 acupoints before meals

In addition to diet control and Chinese medicine conditioning, Chinese medicine practitioner Chen Meifei recommends that people who are losing weight can massage the following five acupoints 30 minutes before meals, 2 minutes for each acupoint, for a total of 10 minutes. This can help regulate the spleen and stomach, promote water metabolism and suppress appetite, which is more conducive to the maintenance of the weight loss plan and shortens the time required to lose weight.

1. Shuifen Point: About one thumb-width above the navel, it can remove phlegm and dampness and reduce edema.

2. Tianshu Point: Located about 2 finger widths away from the navel, one on each side, it can regulate the spleen and stomach.

3. Daheng Point: It is located about 2 finger widths outside the left and right Tianshu points and 4 finger widths away from the navel. It can regulate the spleen and stomach.

4. Zusanli Point: Located in the depression on the front and outer side of the calf, three inches directly below the knee and one finger width away from the front edge of the tibia, it helps suppress appetite and improve gastrointestinal function.

5. Fenglong Point: Located at the midpoint of the line connecting the highest point of the external ankle and the external knee pit, 2 horizontal fingers away from the front edge of the tibia, it can eliminate edema.

Acupuncture point diagram. (Photography by Hong Yuqi)

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