Reasons Behind Weight Gain
1. Increase in Thyroxin Hormone
There is a hormone called thyroxin whose function is to keep the metabolism in balanced. If thyroxin is being produced in body in less quantity then obesity increases due to difficulty in burning of calories. Obesity can increase due to thyroid gland not working properly.
2. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
Another reason for weight gain can be PCOS i.e. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, PCOS found in most of the women in which weight increases due to hormonal imbalance.
3. Diabetes
Diabetes can also be another reason for weight gain; diabetes often leads to insulin resistance. Weight increases due to insulin resistance. Approximately 70% of high diabetic patients have the problem of obesity. Obesity and high diabetes are a very common combination.
4. Irregular Periods in Women an Side-Effects of Medicines
Many women face irregular period related problems. Another reason for weight gain in women can be irregular period. Obesity can increase due to irregular period. Medicines to stop periods and medicines taken for abortion after pregnancy can also cause weight gain in women.
5. Menopause
Menopause is a regular cause of weight gain in women. Most women experience related problems between one and three years after menopause begins, and this can lead to weight gain.
6. Stressful
Doing too much stressful work can lead to weight gain. Many times it is not in our power to stop stress, but to reduce stress; it is important to take adequate breaks in between work and keep trying to bring good thoughts to mind. Busy work, work pressure, continuous work all increase your stress. Due to increase in stress, the hormone called cortisol increases in the body and weight increases. Due to excessive stress, cortisol hormone disrupts the process of burning your calories and maintaining the balance between excess fat.
7. Lifestyle
Nowadays, weight gain due to bad lifestyle is a very common disease. Partying at night, eating whatever is available, consuming more of the same type of food in the diet, eating more bakery products, making fast food an integral part of the diet, consuming excessive amounts of alcohol, not being able to keep a fixed time for eating, traveling a lot for work, Nowadays, weight gain due to lifestyle habits like eating fast food while traveling, lack of exercise etc. has become a common thing.
8. Eating too much
Eating too much food leads to weight gain. If we eat more than what we need for a long period of time, we increase our weight through such habit. If we eat more energy than we need for our daily needs, the extra energy will not be digested and that extra energy will be reflected in fat, which will lead to weight gain and obesity. Therefore, daily diet should be balanced and not more than required. If you get good exercise regularly, you can eat a little more because exercise helps in burn energy.
9. Lack of Body Movement
If you’re daily routine is sedentary and you mostly sit. If you do not need to move your body during work, it means your energy is saved and if you do not exercise after work, your weight is sure to increase. If your working pattern is like this, then you can get up from the chair in between and take a walk in the office or do exercises like hand and foot warm-up, this will provide movement to the body and burn calories
10. Junk Food
Staying away from foods made from refined flour prevents weight gain. Consuming fried food regularly, drinking high cream milk, drinking coffee and tea in large quantities, eating sweets daily, eating junk food daily are the main reasons for weight gain.
11. Side-Effects of Medicines
Side effects of medicines taken for some diseases can also cause sudden weight gain, so if you are taking treatment regularly or for a few months, then it is important to ask your doctor before about the side effects of the medicine.
12. This is also Important
Regular mental stress, anxiety, lack of sleep, sleeping late at night, working in night shifts, bad eating habits, sleeping for too long, not doing workouts can also be the reasons for weight gain.
Ways to Lose Weight
1. Lukewarm Water
If you are overweight and have taken weight loss seriously, then whenever you feel thirsty, you have to drink only lukewarm water. This can reduce your weight up to one kilo in a week.
2. Buttermilk
Mix mint powder, black salt, green mango powder, black pepper powder, ginger powder, cumin powder, fennel powder, celery powder mix in equal quantity and keep it in a jar and add one tablespoon of powder in a glass of cold buttermilk, mix well and drink it twenty minutes after dinner. This will provide nutrients to the body cleanse the stomach and help in reducing weight.
3. Walk
Walking a little more than the normal speed for fifteen to twenty minutes every day will burn excess calories stored in the body and will also help in melting excess fat. But keep in mind that if you are walking on a treadmill, then keeps the treadmill in an open air place.
4. Healthy Habits
have dinner between eight and nine o’clock and sleep till ten o’clock, wake up early in the morning and take a morning walk, do exercise daily, laugh openly, take green tea instead of coffee or tea, lunch can be a little heavy but dinner should be light, reduce stress, sleep well.
5. Apple Cider Vinegar
Drinking 15 to 25 ml apple cider vinegar mixed with a glass of water daily for three months before eating anything in the morning helps in reducing weight, but remember, this period depends on your health. Apple cider vinegar has other health benefits also.
6. Ginger Water
- – Boil 1.5 glasses of water in a hot pan and after 5 minutes add finely chopped pieces of ginger and boil for 7 minutes. After this add one teaspoon of cumin seeds and boil for 3 minutes till it becomes lukewarm and drink. This will slow down your metabolism and help you lose weight.
7. Also These
Consuming gooseberry juice, consuming cluster bean water, Ginger and lemon tea, eating flax seeds, drinking cumin water, etc. helps in reducing weight.
Diet Plan
Morning
On an empty stomach – Drinking 15 to 25 ml apple cider vinegar mixed with a glass of water daily for three months before eating anything in the morning.
Breakfast
Flattened rice cooked with vegetables, Grain cooked with vegetables, Pan Cake of fermented rice with tomato sauce, can eat porridge cooked with vegetables, sandwich with roasted vegetables, Oats with vegetables. You can take green tea with this instead of coffee.
You can take mixed fruits at 12 noon; this will maintain strength in the body.
Lunch
Vegetable salad with olive oil or apple cider vinegar, multigrain bread, roasted cottage cheese, grilled French beans, cooked rice with vegetables, baked beans, and spinach cooked with beans. After lunch you can have a cup of green tea.
Evening Snack
Vegetable Sandwich (without chees), Boiled Chickpeas with Tomato Salsa, Boiled Corns with Sauce and Lemon, Popcorn, Vegetable Tacos, Onion Dosa with Mint Sauce.
Dinner
Multigrain bread with roasted bottle gourd, salad with cottage cheese, stir fry mushrooms cooked with tomato gravy and spices and multigrain bread, cooked drumsticks, chicken salad, semolina pasta with sauce.
Weight Loss Exercise
Running, jump lunges exercise, star jumps exercise, jumping jacks, swimming, walk exercises, marching exercises, cycling etc.
Yoga
Yoga – Dhanusha Pose, Surya Namaskar, Bridge Pose, Naukasana, Upward Facing Plank, Triangle Pose, Warrior Pose, Plank Pose, Shoulder Stand, Sarvasana, Cobra Pose (Bhujangasana).
This information is written by
Mr Suhas Dadarao Avhad
Author and CEO (www.usahealthy.net)