How much weight have you gained this Spring Festival?

Gaining weight in just seven days

From New Year's Eve to the sixth day of the first lunar month, family reunion dinners, New Year's Eve dinners, family dinners, friends' gatherings... dinners are held one after another; from breakfast to lunch to dinner, chicken, duck, fish, meat... feasts are held one after another. All kinds of delicacies keep tempting foodies, and the psychological defense line of losing weight for half a year finally collapses. With the mentality of "eat, eat, it's not a sin", they finally embark on the road of gaining weight. Here, the editor sorts out a typical example of gaining weight, let's feel it together.

After a year of hard work, Xiaolu finally returned home from Beijing. Facing a table full of delicacies, Xiaolu's mind was only on eating. The elders beside him kept picking up dishes for him, "Look at you, why are you so thin? You can't eat these dishes outside. Eat more." Xiaolu nodded quickly, and his chopsticks quickly moved between the grilled lamb chops, fried cicadas, and steamed bighead carp. In a short while, he had eaten a lot.

When he looked up, wow, there was another thick white mutton soup. Xiaolu swallowed his saliva, picked up the bowl and asked for another bowl. After eating until he couldn't eat anymore, Xiaolu ran to chat with everyone, and grabbed a handful of melon seeds and candies. After chatting for a while, the phone rang. It was Yingzi, a high school classmate, who asked Xiaolu to go out and reminisce. It was so cold, where should I go? Xiaolu hesitated for a while, and then a light bulb flashed, and the pastry house was a good choice.

Half an hour later, a cup of milk tea, a piece of cake, and a portion of Taiwanese fried chicken were placed in front of Xiaolu and Yingzi. When the besties met, they kept chatting about all kinds of private things, and before they knew it, all the snacks on the table were eaten up.

Towards evening, my mother called and urged me to come home. Relatives were coming over, so I had to go home quickly for dinner...

Just like that, day after day, the seven-day holiday passed in a flash. Before leaving, Xiaolu touched Liu'er's round belly and stood on the scale tremblingly. Three pounds? Oh, No! It's three kilograms! Heartbroken, what a painful realization...

Don’t lose weight blindly

It's okay to be fat, but you have to understand why you got fat and whether you need to lose weight quickly.

Jiang Yifang, a national second-level nutritionist and columnist for Diet Information Magazine, said in an interview with Chongqing Evening News that people generally stay at home during the Spring Festival, exercise relatively little, and eat a rich diet, so it is reasonable to gain weight and there is no need to worry too much. For friends who are entangled in a small belly that grows within a few days, experts have also given a scientific explanation. Compared with skeletal muscle, abdominal muscle is smooth muscle and is more prone to fat accumulation. The Spring Festival dinner table is mostly high-fat foods, such as fatty meat, nuts, stews, etc. Eating and drinking a lot in a short period of time is the easiest way to gain a fat belly.

Faced with the fat that has grown within a few days, many girls and boys who love beauty want to get rid of it immediately, so the hunger weight loss method, which tests perseverance and has obvious effects, and even the hunger exercise method have been put on the agenda. But they only consider one of them, not the other, and they don't know that after overeating, blindly dieting can easily cause nutritional imbalance. If you want to lose weight quickly, it is better to run or walk for more than 30 minutes 1 to 2 hours after a meal, or do aerobics or swimming, which can not only exercise the body but also lose fat, killing two birds with one stone.

If the weight gain is within three to five kilograms, you don't even need to lose weight deliberately, because this is just a temporary increase in intake and the increase in fat is not large. As long as you resume a normal diet and exercise moderately within the next period of time and regain a normal metabolic pattern, weight loss will not be a problem.

Healthy and slim after the holidays

The editor has always believed that losing weight is a multi-pronged approach, and its essence lies in developing healthy living habits and leading a regular life.

Eat three meals a day properly : The worst thing to do after the holidays is to "starve yourself". Instead, you should follow the principle of "a good breakfast, a full lunch, and a light dinner", and eat three meals a day in a healthy and regular manner. In this way, you will be able to regain a healthy and slim figure in no time.

Eat more intestinal cleansing and detoxifying foods : In addition to regular meals, you can also plan to eat some foods that have detoxifying and weight-loss effects. Foods such as fresh fruits, fresh vegetable juices, and fungi that are full of water and residue are all "cleansers" in the body, which can effectively expel toxins and waste accumulated in the body. Regular detoxification diet therapy can not only help you lose weight quickly, but also strengthen your body.

Adhere to moderate aerobic exercise : The most scientific and effective way to lose weight is aerobic exercise. Aerobic exercise includes bowling, badminton, jogging, rope skipping, etc., which can be selected according to personal interests. For weight loss after the holidays, the editor believes that there are two kinds of exercise with obvious effects: one is swimming, which can consume 1,100 kcal of calories in 30 minutes, and the metabolic rate is very fast, which can consume fat faster than usual; the other is aerobic exercise, which can be performed about 1 to 2 hours after a meal and last for more than 30 minutes, which can consume calories quickly.

The holiday is over, but the Spring Festival is not over yet. Dear friends, “eat while you can”. I hope you can lose weight successfully after the holiday!