Weight Loss: Some Habits That Make You Fat
1 Eating Fast: In today’s life, maximum people living in a fast paced society. Eating fast lets you eat too much before you are fully aware of it. It takes the brain about 15-20 minutes to start signaling feelings of fullness. According to Scientists that fast eating is a risk factor for the metabolic syndrome3, a combination of the symptoms such as high blood pressure, obesity, high cholesterol, and insulin resistance.
2. Fast Food Consumption: One of the main reasons of obesity is that we are too stressed and busy to make healthy dinners at home, often opting to get fast food at the nearest drive-thru instead. They are having high content of saturated and trans-fat, low content of fiber and massive portion sizes, which leads to obesity. Fast foods compromise the quality of the diet by replacing more healthy foods.
3. No time for Exercise: Another main reason for obesity is that we can’t do proper exercise or exercise may be one of the last things on your to-do list. If you really want to lose weight then you have to be strict, do exercise at least 1 hour daily or go for walk. Unfortunately, from sitting in traffic, clocking hours at our desks, and plopping in front of the TV in exhaustion at the end of the day, exercise often goes by the wayside.
4. Your Friends Can Make You Fat: If you’re putting on weight, you might want to take a look at who you’re hanging around with. A study7 published in the July 26, 2007 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that obesity may be “socially contagious.” The study was conducted on more than 12,000 people over 32 years, and concluded that having an overweight friend, sibling or spouse increased one’s risk of obesity by 37 to 57 percent.
5. Lack Of Sleep: Sleep deprivation can increase your risk of obesity by boosting ghrelin (an appetite stimulating hormone) and lowering leptin (an appetite suppressor). According to a study, eight hours of shut-eye, each one-hour decrease in sleep duration was linked to almost 3% more body fat.
6. Clothes: According to a latest study by University of Wisconsin, La Crosse found that casual and comfortable clothing workdays promote increased physical activity. It is also estimated that study participants burned an average of 25 additional calories on Jeans Day with the extra steps and miles walked. Wearing casual clothing every day for 50 weeks of work translates into burning an additional 125 calories per week and 6,250 calories per year.
7 Neglecting Scales: Recent study from the University of Minnesota found that dieters who weighed themselves daily lost about 12 pounds over two years, while those who never did shed only four pounds. Other research, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, concluded that those who have daily weigh-ins (along with face-to-face support) are 82% less likely to regain five pounds than a control group without weigh-ins or support.
