It’s crucial to change your eating habits if you want to lose weight and keep it off. You must eat fewer calories and burn more calories than you consume to lose weight. For many people, doing this for a longer period might be difficult. According to a new study, adhering to an eating plan is more essential than the type of eating plan you follow for losing and maintaining weight. All of your food and drink options are important. Eating well is a journey impacted by numerous factors, including your sex, age, metabolism, food preferences, culture, and customs, and the personal decisions you make over time.
Obesity can be prevented and fought by a consistent schedule of exercise, healthy nutrition, and, during periods of being overweight, consuming the same number or fewer calories than used. A pound of fat contains about 3500 calories of energy, and weight loss is achieved by lowering energy intake while increasing energy expenditure, resulting in a negative energy balance. Orlistat and sibutramine are two adjunctive therapies that can be prescribed by a doctor, though the latter has been withdrawn from the market in many countries.
According to a 2012 study, combining aerobic exercise and resistance training is more effective in reducing belly fat than cardiovascular exercise alone. Exercising also lowers stress and insulin levels, decreasing cortisol levels, a hormone linked to abdominal visceral fat and leptin resistance. When compared to no exercise, a 12-week training program consisting of resistance or combined exercise at moderate intensity for 30 minutes five days a week improved the cardiovascular risk profile in overweight and obese adults. Combination exercise provided better weight loss, fat loss, and cardio-respiratory fitness benefits than aerobic and resistance training methods. As a result, in the National Physical Activity Guidelines, combined exercise training should be suggested for overweight and obese people.
Self-motivation based on an understanding of the dangers of abdominal obesity is often viewed as considerably more essential than concerns about appearance. Furthermore, understanding the health risks associated with abdominal obesity might aid in the process of self-motivation to lose abdominal fat. Abdominal fat has been connected to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer, as previously stated. The deepest layer of belly fat, known as “visceral” fat cells, produces hormones that can harm health.
According to new research, there are a variety of reasons why it is difficult to maintain fat loss following a weight loss program. Aside from your metabolism slowing when you lose weight, your body requires fewer calories than before. Weight regain is also influenced by hormonal and other factors. As a result, you must keep a close eye on your food consumption and engage in a lot of physical activity. Intermittent fasting is another method of limiting food consumption that is gaining popularity as a weight-loss and health-promoting strategy.