Why you need to go on a diet right now
It is worth starting to monitor nutrition today, because then it will be too late.
What are our chances to lose weight
Earn extra weight is easy, make yourself obese is even easier, and losing weight after that is extremely difficult. Only one out of 210 men is able to lose weight. For women, the indicator is slightly better – 1 to 124, but this is less than a percent.
Such data were obtained by British scientists Only One in 210 Obese Men Reach Healthy Weight .. It would be funny if it weren’t scary: the authors of the study tracked the weight of 278,982 participants with different degrees of obesity for ten years.
Obesity is when your body mass index is more than 30 and it’s about excess fat (some athletes also have a huge body mass index, but almost no fat).
Scientists have found out whether participants in the study will be able to return to normal body weight or even lose 5% of their weight.
The conclusions were so-so: a chance to lose at least these percent of excess weight – 1 out of 12 for men and 1 out of 10 for women with simple obesity. In the group of subjects with a very high degree of obesity (BMI greater than 40), the probability was slightly higher: 1 to 8 for men and 1 to 7 for women.
With a return to normal weight, it’s even worse. Each year, one man out of 210 and one woman out of 124 can lose weight to a healthy state.
And the worst thing: after five years, the majority of those who lost weight – 78% – again got to obesity.
And this despite the fact that in the world there are many programs and tips for losing weight. In fact, you can lose weight only on one condition: spend more energy than you consume.
People are trying to somehow deceive themselves and circumvent this law, invent quick diets or exercise supercomplexes, but they do not work. Only a balanced diet and regular sports throughout life work. But apparently, this requires some titanic efforts, especially if you get used to the wrong diet and a comfortable sofa.
Why is it increasingly difficult to lose weight with age
It is difficult to adhere to a plan of nutrition and physical activity, besides nature itself is against us. For example, in the United States, adults gain an average of 13 kg by 50 years.
According to the Institute of Nutrition, in Russia, too, everything is bad. Russian obesity: what to do and how to lose weight ?: after 30 years, half is gaining excess weight.
The US National Institute of Nutrition suggests Why Do We Get Middle-Age Spread ?, not only food but also biology is to blame. As animal studies have shown, at a certain age, DNA-dependent protein kinase is activated in the body – an enzyme that slows down metabolism and prevents the breakdown of fat reserves in the body.
This means that every year it is becoming more and more difficult to make the body work as it should.
The first conclusion: go on a diet right now
Diet is a diet with the restriction or exclusion of any foods.
When you are overweight, you need to exclude half the diet. When there is still no excess weight, just forget about fast food, sugar and fried.
Not such a big sacrifice, but it will help not to get fat, leave carbohydrates in the plate, and sweet in moderation, and even allow you to arrange a “fast food day” once every couple of weeks without harm to health.
Second conclusion: it was necessary to start playing sports already yesterday
But this is the train that cannot be missed. If you still haven’t done this, then keep a selection of tips.
