Open Weibo and Xiaohongshu and search for “weight loss” and “slim down”, and various experience posts will appear in one second. There was “Pamela Girl” in the front, “Liu Genghong Girl” in the back, and then various meal replacements, ketogenic, light fasting… “Keep your mouth shut and stretch your legs”, this is almost everyone who has a problem with weight loss. Anyone who has an idea understands the truth, but it is really difficult to practice.
The methods of “short, flat, and fast” are not advisable
Ms. Xu, as a typical “996” office worker after the 1990s, really can’t find time to exercise, so she For refusing to gain weight, she pinned all her hopes on “keep your mouth shut”. “Meal replacement is mainly to replace dinner. The ketogenic diet is to eat a lot of meat and not eat the main food. I can only eat for 8 hours a day on light fasting, and I can only drink plain water during the rest of the time.” “Mouth” method, Ms. Xu knows a lot, but the effect is not satisfactory.
In fact, in the “China Overweight/Obesity Medical Nutrition Treatment Guidelines” issued by my country in 2021, these weight loss intervention methods such as energy-restricted diet, high-protein diet, low-carbohydrate diet, light fasting, etc. etc. have made a clear introduction. For example, the ketogenic diet is a very specific type of very low-carb diet. The guidelines emphasize that, with full consideration of safety, after trying other weight loss dietary interventions that are ineffective, short-term ketogenic diet management can be carried out under the guidance of clinical nutritionists. Changes in body composition and pay close attention to lipid levels. Clinical nutrition experts also remind that no matter which method is used, only scientific weight loss can ensure the health of the body while reaching the expected weight.
If you gain weight, many people will try various methods to lose weight. The doctor reminds that the methods of “short, flat and fast” are not advisable. Some people can’t wait to lose ten or twenty pounds in a month, thinking that this is called weight loss. From a scientific point of view, it is best not to exceed one to two pounds per week, and to lose weight in a month, the ideal range is to lose four to eight pounds.
If the body weight drops rapidly in a short period of time, the body will activate its self-defense mechanism, and the metabolic rate will drop significantly. If it drops to a certain extent, it will enter a plateau period, and no matter how little you eat, you will not be able to reduce it. On the contrary, as long as you eat a little more than before, it is especially easy to rebound.
Eating too much fruit is also easy to gain weight, especially some high-calorie fruits, such as durian, are high in fat and energy. Eat two fist-sized amount of low-calorie fruit a day.
Be careful with diet pills that work too well. The banned ingredient “Sibutramine” is one of the most “lethal”. Although as early as October 30, 2010, the relevant state departments have requested to stop the production and sales of sibutramine preparations and APIs, but because of its low cost and particularly good weight loss effect, there are still some unscrupulous merchants who secretly join in to lose weight. In medicines and weight loss health products, cases of illegally adding sibutramine are not uncommon. Wang Yan, a nutritionist in charge of the Dietary and Nutrition Department of Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, told Yangzi Evening News/Ziniu News that research has also confirmed that sibutramine can increase cardiovascular risk, and its adverse reactions include headache, dry mouth, anorexia, insomnia, and constipation. , high blood pressure, dizziness, etc., can also cause neurological disorders, systemic damage, damage to the gastrointestinal system, central and peripheral nervous system damage, and even serious consequences of death.
What is TCM “embedding” to lose weight?
“Women are usually more concerned about their weight and body shape, and many second-born mothers seek weight loss in our outpatient clinic.” The intensive care clinic has been in operation for about three years. Every year, nearly 700 people come here because they want to become more slender. Many women who have given birth to children have become the “main force”.
The problem of overweight and obesity has become increasingly prominent, and it has also spread to younger and younger age groups. The 15-year-old girl Yoyo (pseudonym) is a second-year student. She is 1.58 meters tall and weighs almost 130 pounds. This also means that her BMI (body mass index) has entered the overweight category. Zang Ping found out that Yoyo is a typical obesity and overweight caused by heavy study pressure and sedentary inactivity, which also seriously affected her physiological period. “In recent years, there have been many such children, especially junior high school students. For example, they have lost a lot of weight after the college entrance examination.” After a course of acupuncture and catgut embedding therapy, Yoyo successfully “shed” 15 pounds, and the BMI value returned to The normal range, and the “running” menstruation finally arrived as scheduled.
What is TCM “embedding” to lose weight? According to Zang Ping, thread embedding for weight loss is developed on the basis of traditional acupuncture and moxibustion for weight loss. Doctors can determine the cause of the patient’s obesity constitution by looking, hearing, asking, and searching, and design different weight loss acupoint prescriptions for each patient, and control the patient’s abnormal hyperactivity through acupoint stimulation. appetite, and increase the basal metabolic rate. At the same time, through the stimulation of acupoints, the function of the unbalanced viscera is adjusted to restore the balance of the body. Acupuncture, thread embedding, cupping, moxibustion and other methods are used in the outpatient clinic to comprehensively treat obese patients. Targeted treatment is carried out according to the different physical characteristics of each patient.