Exercise is beneficial to maintain the effect of losing weight, but Ma said that a balanced diet should still be adopted to achieve better weight loss effect. Dr. Ma, director of the Chinese Medicine Department of Changhua Hospital of the Department of Health, said that although slimming drugs, electrotherapy, catgut embedding and other methods can make people lose weight in a short time, the lost weight often recovers quickly. If you can lose weight in three stages, adjust your eating habits, do a good job of physical conditioning and exercise regularly, you can lose about 2 to 3 kilograms a month healthily, and you are not afraid of gaining weight quickly or damaging your body.
Three stages of healthy weight loss
Stage 1: Adjust eating habits
Excessive dieting can easily lead to overeating and bring serious sequelae to the body. It is suggested to adopt the concept of "only eating three meals, reducing staple food", with normal meals and balanced nutrition, but the amount of starchy staple food such as rice, pasta, steamed bread, bread and root tuber should be reduced, and the regulations of no snacks, no sugary drinks, no heavy-taste diet, peeling meat and draining vegetables should be strictly observed.
Although the dietary adjustment at this stage is the most difficult to achieve, it is the most critical step. If you don't develop good and correct eating habits, you will either collapse or gain weight quickly.
The second stage: physical condition
In the process of losing weight, many people will have discomfort symptoms such as burnout and constipation. Ma suggested that professional Chinese medicine practitioners can prescribe Chengqi Decoction, Maxing Yigan Decoction, Lizhong Decoction and Gui Ling Shugan Decoction according to personal physique to help improve the discomfort in the process of losing weight, or adjust the obese physique such as defecation, wet water, cold dampness and damp heat, so as to achieve the positive effect of losing weight.
Physical discomfort, such as burnout and constipation, can be improved by TCM physical conditioning. (Photo courtesy of Changhua Hospital) The third stage: regular exercise
Many people think that a lot of exercise consumes body fat to help lose weight, but Dr. Maishi said that the energy consumed by an strenuous exercise is often lower than the calories added by eating a snack. It is suggested that moderate exercise lasting about half an hour every day, such as brisk walking, jogging, cycling or swimming, combined with the adjustment of eating habits in 1 stage, can increase the effect of exercise to lose weight.