If the treatment of overweight and obesity, i.e. slimming, were simple, each of us would have the silhouette of Venus or Apollo. But it is a great effort that requires strong motivation, consistency and persistence in pursuing the goal. Losing weight effectively means changing your eating habits and exercising regularly. In a word, you need to change your lifestyle to a more active one.
Eating is fun. That's true. Many people will also say that they need to eat to live. It is also true, but in this statement is already the nucleus of justification for the possible failure of trying to reduce the amount of what they want to put on the plate. After all, they suggest, you cannot give up something that is necessary for survival. But it is the delight of eating, which nature created to facilitate our survival, that leads to the systematic increase in the stocks offatin the human body.
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Appetite is the result of a whole range of stimuli that our brain receives. These include the simplest ones: smells and the view of dishes or the taste of sugar ubiquitous in products. The more complex ones flow from the environment and result from social behavior, eating patterns observed in the family home, and from the hierarchy of values in a given social group. Additionally, your brain is exposed to sometimes very sophisticated stimuli. They flow, for example, from the media. Food is not promoted to satisfy anyone's hunger - anyone can do it without advertising - but usually to buy it. Apparently, our brain is not immune to this type of stimulation. Advertising therefore shapes the behavior of millions of people, as a result of which affluent societies are affected by the epidemicobesity .
Changing your lifestyle is the key to successful weight loss
The belief that starving yourself for several weeks or even several months or following a specific diet will be beneficial is simply naivety. Treatment of obesity is not similar to that of other diseases. There, therapy has a beginning and a predictable end. It has a beginning here, but by definition it has no end. It should last forever and lead to behavioral and lifestyle changes. So thatslimmingwould be effective as a ruleit is not enough to reduce the caloric content of meals. Changing your lifestyle also means a new habit of systematic physical exertion. It can be a walk in the park or - for the elderly - even shuffling. Not five minutes, first half an hour twice a week, and then an hour every other day. It is even better if it can be a jog, cycling or swimming. The research carried out at the Food and Nutrition Institute in Warsaw shows that only a few percent of patients achieve the appropriate body weight using only a low-energy diet. Similarly, most people who have not changed their eating habits and still do not spend their free time actively, return to their pre-treatment weight within 2-3 years, or even exceed it.
Knowledge about the calorific value of products is necessary for weight loss
When we start to lose weight, we need to know what "little" means. Knowing this measure will help us avoid overeating. So we will need a kitchen scale to avoid preparing meals "by eye" and calorie tables that will allow us to compose the menu in such a way that the dishes do not exceed a certain number of calories. It's also worth getting into the habit of carefully reading the labels of the products you buy. The second step is knowing at what intervals to eat in order to satisfy your appetite and prevent bouts of unbearable wolf hunger. A meal every 3 hours is usually sufficient, the third imperative is knowing how to eat. The answer is slow, not greedy. It is a difficult skill, but well worth mastering, as it allows you to satiate yourself with less food, and in the end you have to know - perhaps the most enjoyable - what to eat. You can have all sorts of things on your menu, as long as you lose weight. This means that we should eat in amounts that provide less energy than the body needs (e.g. instead of 2500 kcal per day, only 2000 kcal). Such restriction will mobilize him to use up fat reserves. This is the purpose of skilful replacement of certain products with their low-calorie equivalents. This is where caloric tables come in handy. Much to learn? Yes, but thanks to this and systematic physical effort, the changes will be permanent.
Strong motivation is necessary to lose weight
We have to really want to lose weight, that is to heal. The will to fight and determination are the keys to success. We often lack this motivation, and the opponent is difficult. It's hard to fight habits that we have had for years. Now you have to start to function differently - less tasty, less comfortable, and therefore against your own nature.for years. For example, that we need energizing "junk food" or sweets; or that we are not harmed by the slightly "lighter caloric bombs"; or that for the sake of convenience, we can eat whatever we want with impunity. We should also become more immune to information noise from various sources. Unfortunately, it affects the lifestyle of many people, especially young people, and changing this style turns out to be very difficult. After all, it requires breaking patterns and performing activities that have not absorbed us so much. And all this so that the meal becomes an action and a conscious choice. Also, consciously, we must avoid mindless snacking and move more. It is even more difficult to tame greed. People who eat too much are compared with drug addicts. Defeats in combating greed are euphemistically called "weak will", while it would be more accurate to speak of a failure in the fight against the addiction of food. As we know, determination is important in the fight against addiction. You need to be cured of obesity. Where there is no determination, one can guess apparent actions, i.e. making a gesture by an obese person in relation to the environment that exerts pressure. There are people who do love their habits, even if they spoil their he alth. And they will not give them up for anything in the world.
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