"Why do you gain weight after exercise?" This problem is actually very complicated, starting with body composition and weight loss goals.

Everyone knows that weighing scale can be used to weigh, but what is "weight"? I'm afraid many people haven't thought about it carefully. The numbers on the weighing scale are composed of the following parts of the human body: bones, muscles (including visceral muscles and limb muscles), blood, lymph and intercellular fluid, and of course, fat. What are the body components of each of the above categories and what is their proportion can be called "body components".

Losing weight naturally cannot reduce the weight of bones, because strong bones are a great health advantage. If someone's bone weight is too low, it often means that he is at risk of osteoporosis.

So is it appropriate to lose weight by losing muscle? Decreased visceral muscles mean decreased metabolic function; Muscle loss of limbs means physical weakness and physiological aging. Generally speaking, the attenuation of muscle is directly related to the decline of metabolic rate, that is, the reduction of energy consumption will make people form a constitution that is "easy to gain weight but difficult to lose weight".

What happens if the water in the body decreases? Body fluids are extremely important to human health, and the water in the body is also closely related to the youth of the human body. Babies have the highest body moisture, while the elderly have the lowest body moisture.

Knowing these basic principles, we can understand that when we lose weight, we only have to lose fat. Only too much fat will bring us the risk of illness. Reducing the proportion of body fat to a reasonable range is the real weight loss.

If we only pursue weight loss without reducing the proportion of body fat, or even reducing useful parts of the body such as bones and muscles, it will damage our health, accelerate aging and reduce metabolic rate, which runs counter to the fundamental goal of weight loss.

Exercise to lose weight will increase the proportion of muscles.

For people with poor physique, exercise not only consumes fat, but also strengthens the function of internal organs and increases the proportion of muscles in the body composition. But the specific gravity of muscle is greater than that of water, and the specific gravity of fat is less than that of water. If a dieter loses 1kg of fat but increases 1kg of protein, it is bound to gain weight. This situation is most obvious in the early stage of exercise. When the body's metabolic rate returns to a higher level in the middle of exercise to lose weight, the body's ability to decompose fat will be strengthened, and then you will see a slow but sustained weight loss.

A lady told me that two months after she started exercising, she gained 2 kilograms, but when she put on clothes, she obviously felt in good shape. Now she can wear jeans that she couldn't wear before, and her waist is thinner, her abdomen is flatter and her hips are upturned. This is a result of losing weight that should be extremely happy, because it means that almost all the fat she lost is fat. Only the weight loss with reduced fat rate is the real weight loss, and it is the weight loss that makes the body beautiful.

However, most friends who are worried about their weight are not in such a mood. A girl once complained to the author: "Why did I work hard for two months, and my body really became thinner, but my weight did not drop?" I am so depressed! "In fact, if you go on a diet for two months and lose a few pounds, but your figure doesn't get better, will you feel happier? There's no need to worry so much. People see the figure lines, but the weight data is "floating clouds".

What if weight loss will rebound?

Some people will ask, "exercise can really change my body shape, but once it stops, it will rebound!" " "That's true, but would it be better to lose weight in other ways instead of exercising?

Actually, we might as well think so. If you don't exercise and go on a diet, it will be very painful to be hungry for a lifetime. As long as you stop dieting and eat three meals, your weight will rebound faster. What will happen if you switch to a drug diet? Can you take diet pills for life? The so-called three-point poison, all diet pills have obvious side effects, and so far there is no panacea that can make people lose weight without paying any price.

Therefore, it is unsustainable to go hungry and take medicine, and it is seriously harmful to health. In contrast, exercising three times a week is extremely beneficial to physical health, mental vitality and physical maintenance. Why not keep it for life? Even if it's not to lose weight, just to keep healthy and prevent chronic diseases, you should make sure to do at least 150 minutes of exercise every week. After staying away from youth, until the age of 70, with the growth of age, the metabolic rate gradually declines, and the human body will become more and more prone to gain weight. Keeping a healthy figure is a lifelong career, so don't be eager for quick success.

Eat enough nutrition happily, exercise happily, forget your weight, and focus on shaping and maintaining a beautiful figure-this is the high-quality weight loss, the real lipid-lowering and slimming.