Nightmare of middle-aged women! I'm afraid of the pear figure

Where is fat

Fat accumulates below the waist, including the buttocks and inner and outer thighs and other lower body parts, causing sagging buttocks, thick thighs (commonly known as elephant legs), and a bulging lower abdomen, which completely distorts the body shape. This is pear-shaped obesity. Due to the influence of estrogen, women tend to convert excess body heat into fat and attach it to the subcutaneous tissue. As metabolism slows down before and after menopause, more fat accumulates. Therefore, middle-aged women are the main group of pear-shaped obesity.

Many women will have problems with obesity in their thighs and buttocks when they reach middle age, and the pear-shaped body becomes a nightmare.

Xiao Dunren pointed out that this type of body fat is attached to the subcutaneous tissue and is tough and difficult to decompose. Once the thickness exceeds 2 cm, it is difficult to metabolize. Therefore, if the wrong method is used or the willpower is insufficient when losing weight, it is easy to fail. But on the bright side, subcutaneous fat obesity poses less threat to health. The latest research shows that people with pear-shaped bodies live longer than apple-shaped bodies. Former British government adviser Ashley

Will collaborated with mathematicians from City University in London to analyze 20 years of data from about 3,000 British men and women, and published a study at the European Obesity Conference, estimating that 30-year-old women with thin waists and plump buttocks live 9.5 years longer than women with fat waists and abdomens, while 30-year-old men with tuna bellies live nearly 17 years less than men with flat abdomens. In addition, middle-aged men who often stay up late or work night shifts are also at high risk of obesity.

Zhang Jianhui pointed out that from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the liver and kidneys of the human body begin to become weaker at the age of 40. Although this group of people do not eat much midnight snack, because of their irregular biological clocks, disordered hormone secretion, and poor metabolism, they gain weight even if they do not eat. This is a type of obesity called "liver and kidney yin deficiency."

What wrong habits make you fat?

Staying up late for a long time or having a reversed day and night schedule will disrupt the regular secretion of hormones, making it difficult not to gain weight. Liao Qianhui added that once the biological clock is disrupted, even if you are very tired, your body will be in an excited state, and the more tired you are, the more difficult it will be to sleep. As a result, you will have to look for midnight snacks everywhere, forming a vicious cycle. Sitting for a long time will cause fat to accumulate and easily lead to a "big butt".

Chen Jianhui said that the outer side of the body is most likely to gain weight, including the sides of the waist, outer side of the buttocks, outer side of the thighs, and even the outer side of the arms. The entire body will expand outward and become larger. Over time, the body will change from a pear-shaped body to a green pepper-shaped body shape - a body shape with particularly fat upper and lower body.

How to lose weight through metabolism

If you want to get rid of the nightmare of lower body obesity, Dr. Morrison recommends eating more high-fiber foods to absorb excess estrogen and excrete it from the body through intestinal metabolism. This can not only improve weight loss efficiency, but also help shape body curves. It can also relieve women's menstrual discomfort. He recommends eating edamame to regulate estrogen levels and swapping refined rice and pasta for whole grains. Cheng Hanyu, director of the Muguang Nutritionist Clinic, recommends seasonal ingredients rich in soluble dietary fiber, such as burdock, bitter melon, black fungus, and shiitake mushrooms.

Traditional Chinese medicine starts with adjusting the liver and kidney systems. Chen Jianhui pointed out that traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the harmony of the internal organs. Gaining weight means that there is an imbalance in the body. Therefore, by using Chinese medicine, diet, exercise and other methods, the body's organs can resume normal functioning and weight can naturally be reduced. Since most people with pear-shaped obesity suffer from yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire, they can use some yin-nourishing Chinese medicines, such as wolfberry, rehmannia root, ginkgo seed, Eclipta prostrata, Polygonatum multiflorum, Polygonatum sibiricum, Cornus officinalis, Alisma orientalis, and yam. To regulate the liver and kidney, that is, the endocrine system, Zuogui Pills and Liuwei Dihuang Pills can be used, Chen Jianhui said.

Exercise prescription

Xiao Dunren pointed out that if you want to fight subcutaneous fat, "exercise, exercise, and continue exercising" is the only way. In the early stage, start with aerobic exercise, whether it is brisk walking, jogging, or cycling, so that your breathing becomes faster and more panting, and you can take in big gulps of oxygen to burn fat in your body. After 4 to 6 weeks, when you have mastered the aerobic exercise techniques and lost some weight, add anaerobic exercise to your schedule, because muscle mass is proportional to metabolic rate. With muscle, the basal metabolic rate will increase. In the end, anaerobic exercise becomes the key to maintaining weight loss results.

In fact, this concept applies to weight loss for all body types," he stressed. Regarding local strengthening of lower limb obesity, nutritionist Zheng Yiqi recommends that people with pear-shaped obesity can try to "walk with big steps", because the muscle groups used in taking big steps are different from those used in normal small steps, which can affect the thighs, buttocks, and even the waist. Even if you walk at the same speed, long steps and short steps burn the same amount of calories, but they exercise different muscle groups, which helps improve the waist and hip curves.

■ Chinese medicine diet therapy, acupoint massage

● Recommended foods: tomatoes, lotus roots, bitter melons, cucumbers, water spinach, mung beans (clearing away heat and reducing internal heat); yam, fungus, okra, kelp (nourishing yin)

● Acupoints: Shenmen (heart meridian), Fengshi (gallbladder meridian)

● Polygonatum odoratum moisturizing tea: 3 grams of polygonatum odoratum and 2 grams of stevia leaves. Put all the ingredients into the filter bag, add 500cc of boiling water, steep for 10 to 15 minutes, and then you can drink it.

This article is excerpted from: "Good metabolism, double slimming" Activating metabolism is the first step to losing weight