Why is it so common for middle-aged people to gain weight?
When people reach middle age, their bodies start to enter an aging state, their body muscles will deteriorate and their body functions will become less efficient.
So, how can you avoid the distress of middle-aged fat gain? Middle-aged people lose weight from 3 ways to start, improve the body metabolism level, slim down without rebound!
1, avoid starving dieting. Although starving and eating less just started to lose weight quickly. However, long-term dieting and eating less will put the body into starvation, the body will consume muscle and you will develop a fat-prone physique. When you resume your diet your body will start to bounce back and you will be fatter than before.
The correct way is to take your usual calorie intake as a standard and during the diet, reduce it to 80% of your usual calorie intake, for example, if your usual calorie intake is 3000 calories a day, you can control it to about 2400 calories during the diet.
In order to avoid hunger pangs that lead to starvation and overeating, we need to learn to use low-calorie, natural and less processed foods instead of various high-calorie, over-processed foods, which can ensure the intake of food portions and reduce the appearance of hunger pangs.
2. Regular resistance training. Muscle is the body's lean body mass and an energy-consuming substance. The daily calorie consumption of a pound of muscle is about 6-9 times that of a pound of fat, which means that people with more muscle can consume more calories every day and are less likely to get fat.
In order to improve muscle mass and maintain a high basal metabolic rate, we need to strengthen our muscles through regular strength training to reduce our chances of gaining weight.
We can do self weight training at home, from push-ups, squats, lunge squats, goat jerk these 4 movements to start, each action 4 groups, each group 15 times, 3 days exercise once can activate and strengthen the body muscle groups, help to build a pair of easy to thin body, thin down the body will also be tighter look.
3, participate in more physical activities. Don't always sit still, life is in motion, exercise can slow down the aging of body functions, so that you maintain a flexible, athletic body, but also to enhance immunity, reduce the invasion of disease.
When people reach middle age, we can do more climbing, square dancing, cycling, swimming, playing ball and other sports, choose the sports you are interested in, so that it is easy to stick to it, long-term persistence, you will reap many unexpected benefits.