10 psychological secrets about weight loss

 10 psychological secrets about weight loss

If you want to lose weight healthily, you should not take a diet but CHANGE YOUR LIFESTYLE. I will now tell you 10 psychological secrets about diets that will shock you:

1. Slimming belts can cause death

One frightening thing that no one talks about is that there is a risk of dying during a diet. You may have wondered sometimes, what happens to fat when you lose weight? If you lose 20 kg, it means sending in your blood the equivalent of 80 packets of butter. Every day, these lipids (fats) load your vessels as if you were eating a soup with oil every night. So, if we lose 100 grams a day, that would be equivalent to adding 100 grams of animal fat to our daily ration. This explains why some people have a heart attack or stroke during weight loss. Removed fat can block the arteries of the heart or a vessel in the brain.

2. Slimming cure disorders hunger and satiety

All diets, especially if they are very short-term, permanently disrupt hunger parameters and storage mechanisms. In other words, the yo-yo effect (re-fattening) is strong.

3. The yo-yo effect of diets

60% of people return to their initial weight and very often exceed it at the end of the first year, 70% of people in 3 years, 95% of people in 5 years. Studies show that the "hunger hormone" is 20% higher in those who have regained fat after a diet. So, after a failed diet you are more confused.

4. After a diet you should eat less all your life

What you are not told when you take a diet is that if you want to stay lean you have to eat all your life with less than 400 calories than you need daily and do a lot of sports. This means that if the daily requirement of a person with normal weight is 2000 calories, the person who has had a normal weight all his life will be able to eat 2000 calories, the person who has reached normal weight by losing weight, only 1600 calories. Any slowdown in movement and return to old eating habits will be accompanied by a new weight gain.

5. Models are not a model but an illusion

The beauties on TV (mannequins, actresses, etc.) do not have a job like yours. Their job is to spend a quarter of their time in the gyms with their personal trainer, a quarter posing in front of a photographer who knows how to retouch the images and a quarter with the cosmetic surgeon. So, they are not a model, but an illusion.

6. A few extra pounds does not harm your health

A slight excess weight is not harmful to health, as many "experts" try to convince you. A study published on January 2, 2013 confirms that a little fat on the buttocks and abdomen with a BMI between 25-30, is beneficial, and patients with a small excess weight die later than lean people (Heymsfield SB, Cefalu WT, “Does body mass index adequately convey a patient`s mortality risk?”, JAMA, January 2, 2013)

7. Rapid weight loss creates big belly syndrome

Did you know that fast diets create "big belly syndrome"? When you lose a lot of weight, in a short time, the liver cannot manage the excess fat in the blood. In this situation, it sends the fat back to the areas that are not controlled by leptin, ie to the abdominal fat. If fats are highly polluted and impossible to eliminate, they will be stored in the liver, resulting in "fatty liver".

8. Rapid weight loss dehydrates you

Another effect of quickly eliminating excess weight is dehydration and loss of muscle mass. The first 3-4 kg we lose is muscle mass and water. Unfortunately, muscle fibers recover very hard, only if we train daily for years.

9. Weight loss regimens disrupt your thyroid

Diets cause a thyroid disorder and a decrease in immunity. If there are fewer proteins available, fewer hormones will be made. The consequence will be a slow and tired thyroid that will favor fat storage. The intestinal mucosa will also be affected when a diet is strict or unbalanced and the immune system will disrupt.

10. Children should not follow diets

Children are prone to gain weight in three critical periods: 3 months, 3 years and adolescence. In the case of the child, the issue of the regime should never be raised. In addition to rare metabolic diseases, obesity in children is linked to three factors: unhealthy eating, lack of exercise and emotional hunger. Parents must prevent the child from gaining weight. Young people who have a small weight gain of a few kilograms should not start a diet, because diets are fattening machines.