1, the reason why women get fat in middle age
1. Hormone changes
After middle age, women are more prone to fat accumulation, especially in the buttocks and abdomen, due to the decline in hormone levels.
2. Physical changes
More than half of the human body's energy consumption comes from its own basic metabolism. After we are 25 years old, our body's basal metabolic rate will gradually decrease, and our energy consumption will also gradually decrease. If the eating habits have not changed, the energy intake will be the same as before, and there will naturally be a tendency to gain weight.
3. Changes in activities
Exercise can improve the basal metabolic rate and effectively prevent the body from getting fat too early and too fast, but modern people rarely have the habit of exercising. More female friends are used to sitting and lying down, and it is easy to get fat over time.
4. Change of mentality
Middle-aged people are generally the backbone of the family. They have a lot of work and social intercourse and are under great pressure. Trivia at home is also constant. The quality of sleep can not be guaranteed, and the pressure in my heart can not be released. To a certain extent, it will also encourage the trend of getting fat.
2. How to prevent women from getting fat in middle age?
1. The source of stay away from obesity
Middle-aged women's basal metabolic rate slows down, so they must adjust their diet to prevent obesity, and other nutrition needs to be guaranteed, and at the same time, they should be the source of stay away from obesity. For example, desserts, drinks, fat meat and other foods that make you fat, it is best to eat less. You can eat them occasionally to satisfy your cravings, but they can't be a daily diet forever.
2. Need to control appetite
Middle-aged women are inferior to young people. Don't overeat because it is their favorite food, and don't eat all the leftovers in order not to waste, which will only make them consume too many calories. But you don't have to go on a diet to ensure the nutrition you need every day. You can eat more meals a day and divide the amount of three meals into several times, which not only meets the demand, but also helps to lose weight.
3. Remember to drink plenty of water
Drinking enough water every day can effectively ensure basal metabolism and promote the discharge of various wastes, toxins and other substances that make the body fat. Don't forget to drink plenty of water when you are busy at work. It's best to drink warm water. Too hot and too cold is not good for your stomach.
4. Remind yourself to chew more.
No matter what you eat, after you put the food in your mouth, you must chew it several times, at least one bite and ten bites. Always remind yourself that chewing more is conducive to promoting digestion and absorption, preventing food overeating and effectively avoiding overeating.
5. Let yourself fall in love with sports
To keep your weight within a reasonable range, both diet and exercise are indispensable. The lazier you are, the more you want to exercise. It is not complicated to exercise, speed up blood circulation and enhance one's metabolic ability through physical activities. Just do some simple sports you like, such as jogging, walking, aerobics, yoga, square dance and so on.
3. How to lose weight during menopause?
(1) Chinese medicine to lose weight
Traditional Chinese medicine foot bath fitness
Recommended recipe: winter melon skin+Poria cocos+papaya
Production method: put the skin of wax gourd+Poria cocos+papaya into a pot and cook until the material becomes soft. Add a little cold water to the potion. When the water temperature is 40 degrees, you can soak your feet directly 15 minutes.
Efficacy: Papain in papaya can promote human metabolism, and Poria can accelerate human blood circulation and fat metabolism. As long as you insist on soaking your feet with drugs every day, you can get remarkable results in about half a month, and you can easily lose 5-8 kg of fat.
Chinese herbal tea fitness
Recommended tea spectrum: tangerine peel+plantain+green tea
Production method: firstly, wash dried tangerine peel+plantain+green tea with hot water, pour off the water, and then add boiling water to brew for 10 minute before drinking. Efficacy: Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae has good effects of regulating qi and stomach and promoting digestion, and can be used with plantain with diuretic effect and green tea with lipid-lowering effect. Drinking it one hour after meals every day can cure puffiness caused by indigestion, and it will make the waistline thinner in about half an hour.
Traditional Chinese medicine diet to lose weight
In traditional Chinese medicine, people's physique can be divided into two types: cold bottom and hot bottom. Only according to different constitutions can we effectively lose weight. Autumn and winter are tonic seasons, and diet is the best way to lose weight. Adding some Chinese herbal medicines to food is simply icing on the cake.
For example, people with cold buttocks need to eat some warm or hot food to lose weight, and try not to eat cold food to avoid harm to the body, while people with hot buttocks need to avoid eating too hot food, and warm food should be used in small quantities, so as to effectively lose weight and lose weight together.
(2) Dieting to lose weight
Eat more low-fat and high-fiber foods: balance energy intake and consumption, eat less high-fat foods such as sweets and fried foods, and eat more high-fiber foods to avoid weight gain.
Proper intake of protein: The older you get, the lower your metabolic function will be. At this time, some protein foods with high physiological value should be supplemented, such as lean meat, chicken, fish, milk, eggs, etc., but not in excess.
Take vitamins properly: eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, increase vitamins and minerals, and enhance the body's resistance.
Control fat intake: eat less animal oil and eat more vegetable oil. Animal oil contains saturated fatty acids, too much intake will cause arteriosclerosis and obesity. Vegetable oil contains unsaturated fatty acids and vitamin E, which also has a very good preventive effect on aging.
Light diet: the elderly are prone to symptoms such as high blood pressure, insomnia, dizziness and palpitation. Eat as little salt as possible in the diet, avoid irritating foods such as wine, coffee, strong tea, pepper, etc., and eat more millet, corn, cereal, lean meat, milk, etc. rich in vitamin B to maintain normal autonomic nerve function, promote digestion, and also have preventive and therapeutic effects on headache, dizziness and memory loss.
4. Health tips for middle-aged women
1. Prevention of osteoporosis
With the growth of age. When the bone density decreases, there will be hunchback, lumbago and leg pain, limb weakness and so on. Therefore, middle-aged people should pay attention to regulating diet, preventing osteoporosis, and eat more foods rich in calcium and vitamin D, such as fish oil, egg yolk, milk, lean meat, poultry and fruits. In addition, you should always bask in the sun and get enough sunshine.
Get enough sleep
Adequate sleep can relieve fatigue. Produce vitality, but also enhance immunity and disease resistance. When sleep is insufficient, the human body's resistance and immunity are low, which can easily lead to many diseases and increase the chances of cancer and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. When people reach middle age, wrinkles have climbed up the corner of their eyes, and proper beauty can make you youthful. For middle-aged women, adequate sleep is more important than beauty.
3. Enhance immunity
Among people's emotions, only happiness is a physiological activity beneficial to human health. It is found that when laughing, all organs of the human body can produce coordinated vibration, which makes the nerves in an excited state and promotes the secretion of healthy hormones through nerve regulation. Laughter helps to relieve the depressed emotions in the heart, make the face, neck, back, pectoralis major and abdominal muscles contract and relax repeatedly, enhance the breathing ability, and thus inhale more oxygen. Muscles and tissues are supplied with oxygen, and their functions are brought into normal play.
Pursuing new knowledge
Preventing brain aging, pursuing new knowledge and continuous learning will make people feel satisfied and enriched psychologically. Pursuing new knowledge can constantly stimulate brain cells, make thinking active and agile, help prevent brain atrophy and slow down brain decline.
adjust one's mindset
Middle-aged women's life rhythm is accelerated, so it is difficult to maintain inner peace and comfort. Mental activities are closely related to physiological and pathological changes of human body. Music can regulate the body and mind, soothe the soul, make the body metabolize vigorously, and keep the balance of various hormones. Dance, painting, calligraphy, stone appreciation, stamp collecting, newspaper clipping and so on all have similar functions.
6. Bushen Jing
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidney contains essence, and the main bone and kidney essence are sufficient, so the limbs are strong and the body and mind are healthy. Therefore, when people reach middle age, they should pay attention to tonifying kidney and replenishing essence, so as to keep their bodies in a vigorous mental state, such as bird's nest, tremella, lily, glutinous rice, Gordon Euryale seed, Polygonatum sibiricum, Cistanche deserticola, Chinese yam, Lycium barbarum, yuanrou, jujube and walnut. Can be made into soup and porridge according to their own conditions, which can not only strengthen the body, but also beauty beauty.
7. Keep exercising
Exercise is the best way to maintain vigorous vitality, well-proportioned figure, shiny hair and delicate skin. Exercise can promote blood circulation, improve heart, lung and brain function, consume excess fat, speed up metabolism, and make the body get enough blood oxygen supply, and be young and healthy.