– What about TV?
– Dining with TV is the worst option. We’ll discuss it today.
Let’s talk about physiological reasons for weight gain. What are they?
– Sedentary life.
– Inactive lifestyle, heredity, and so on. Poor me, I’ve got a defective gene from Granny, and it ruined my life. ☺ “Have you seen my Granny? No? Look, here is her picture”. – “So what?” – “It’s not my fault that I am overweight? Look! My Granny weighted three hundred thirty pounds. Have you seen my Mom? Now you understand!”
People tend to shift responsibility to other shoulders.
It is the easiest way to explain obesity. “I am fat because all my ancestors were fat.”
Other popular “contributors” are pregnancy and maternity. Nika, I know you consider it to be a reason for your weight gain”.
Olga Vladimirovna Tsyganova, 28, economist, lost 110 lbs: When people ask me how I had gained so much weight, I reply: “I had been overeating since I was a child.” I never blamed my heredity or anybody even though my parents introduced baby porridges to me too early. They were afraid that their daughter would be undernourished. As she grew older, she continued to eat more and more, and then she started gorging herself with foods. Yes, I ate a lot. Even when I was full, I couldn’t stop staring at all these yummy foods. When I came to grannies, aunts, it seemed like their main task was to shove everything they had into me, just to demonstrate hospitality. And I was pretty content with it. I am sure many of you understand me very well.
Frankly speaking, I still have this feeling from time to time, but now I know how to deal with it. In my childhood, parents often took me to endocrinologists. Doctors claimed with one accord that I would lose excess weight as I grew older, I would shoot up. But it never happened. By twenty-one, I weighed two hundred fifty pounds. How I hated my reflection in the mirror, I hated myself for my weakness! At one point, an inner voice told me: “Olya, you can’t go on like this, and you will be unhappy for the rest of your life.” And it just clicked in my mind. That summer, I finished the fourth year of university and had the last year ahead. Suddenly I realized that I wanted to receive an honors diploma and come to the University graduation ceremony as a slim beauty wearing a beautiful outfit. So, I got two primary goals for the coming year: an honors diploma and a slim body! Well, I achieved my goals. Now it’s your turn. Will you dare?
Group session of psychologist
Artyom Andreyevich Ovechkin:
– It’s all due to feeding.
– Sure, breath-feeding. What else? Endocrine disorders.
Let’s explore this set of reasons.
Move your body!
Inactive lifestyle. Nowadays there are so many things that machines do instead of us. Cars carry us, and elevators can take us up to the desired floor, the washing machine washes our clothes, the dishwasher washes the dishes. Thus, we move much less. No need to come up to TV to zap through the channels, as we have a remote control now. By the way, there is a sort of new disorder that appeared not long ago. Zapping.
– What?
– Zapping, quick scanning through different television channels.
– Oh, that’s how my husband does pretty often! ☺ It’s almost impossible to understand what’s on the screen. As usual, he doesn’t know what he’s looking for.
– I automatically zap to the next channel while seeing “How to Build Your Love” on TV.
– Or some advertisements.
– Imagine how less we move by now. Meanwhile, doctors tell us constantly: “All you have to do is to move more and eat less.” It’s a piece of wise advice. But it’s not clear how to arrange it.
By the way, you don’t have to eat less. You have to eat smart. A balanced diet must contain all elements and nutrition you need in low-calorie foods avoiding high-calorie foods.
– Sounds easy.
– You will learn how to do it in our classes. Many of our clients successfully lose weight without increasing physical activity. All you need to do is to walk for at least thirty minutes a day.
When it comes to burning calories, walks are not really helpful. But they help to achieve another goal – to improve your overall health and well-being. Walking outdoors revives your spirits, contributes to an increase endorphin level, accelerates metabolic processes. You know, we haven’t enough fingers to count all the benefits of walking.
N.B.! Start walking for at least thirty minutes a day. Breathing should be smooth and naturally rhythmic. After a walk, your physical and mental condition shall improve. If so, then the pace and duration you have chosen are appropriate.
Even while doing such a simple exercise as walking, you should avoid overloading.
It is necessary to consult your doctor on the issue of walking.
Insulin resistance syndrome
Almost all people with excess weight are subjected to different degrees of insulin resistance syndrome. Tissues of the body begin to become less sensitive to insulin. Insulin enters the bloodstream, binds to glucose, and delivers it to tissues. Imagine what happens if tissues are resistant to insulin. They start to starve. It leads to health issues. Cyclic, dynamic, aerobic exercises, including walking, help to get rid of insulin resistance step by step. That’s walking is beneficial. You can ride a bicycle for twenty or thirty minutes, swim leisurely.
You should do it at an average pace to keep your breath smooth, and after a workout, you should feel physical and mental recovery instead of exhaustion!
Nikolay Ivanovich Kosenkov, member of Petrovskaya Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ph. D. of medical science
Insulin resistance is often caused by obesity. Since the adipose tissue exhibits a sufficiently high metabolic activity, the insulin sensitivity of tissues decreases by forty percent when the ideal body weight is exceeded by thirty-five to forty percent.
Heredity and pregnancy
– Many people tend to shift responsibility from their shoulders to genes.
– Habits are transmitted from one generation of the family to another for sure.
– Yes, it’s true. Of course, certain genetic traits indirectly contribute to quicker gaining or losing weight. That does happen.
But the main reason for excess weight gain is the ingress of excess energy with food into the body.
Pregnancy and maternity. When an expecting mother carries a child, she needs to eat more, right?
– Right!
– Of course. A pregnant woman needs to build this small body inside of her. She needs energy. She needs so-called “construction materials”. Expecting mothers eat for two. ☺ Good. Should she eat more when she is breastfeeding?
– Yes.
– She eats more since she has to produce rich, high-quality milk in sufficient quantity. Two years have passed since the woman gave birth to a baby; she has already stopped breastfeeding. What happens to her eating behavior? Everyone