Have you ever found that your friends and classmates around you have invariably become fat after work.
I don't feel like I've eaten much, but I'm still visibly rubbing my fat.
Even people who don't eat fat complain that they have a small belly.
The harder people work, the fatter they get?
It sounds ridiculous and aggrieved.
Eating is not only a supplement to energy, but also a lack of love.
As a foodie, the motto of life is:
"Life is short, it must be filled with food"
There are so many world delicacies, once missed, you will live in vain
For foodies, eating is an attitude, can eat, can eat, is an essential skill in the foodie industry,
But the ability and ability to eat and not be fat is a hidden pain in the heart of every foodie.
Why didn't you lose weight for so long?
Why do others lose, but you always fail?
Because the "inner stuck point" traps you in the footsteps of weight loss
"Hunger" is a state that is stimulated in the mind, and whatever other meaning it may have been, for at least a century psychologists have been studying similar states of hunger.
The process of starvation is always present, it is always running in the subconscious, and occasionally it enters the subjective consciousness of the person.
It's like an emotion that, when it slowly appears or slowly disappears, even if it doesn't exist in consciousness, can affect our decisions.
Every piece of fat on the body has a bitter heart, and there is a story.
The body has silently undergone a lot of stress, and you really "treated" it for too long.
Living in a modern society, we can't escape chronic pressure: from traffic jams to being late and tutoring children with homework; to preparing for college, buying a house and a car to repay a loan.
No matter what age you are, there is uncountable pressure.
Stress is not an imaginary disease, but a reaction to the body's "state of readiness."
This is the reaction when you realize that a situation, or someone, or something is potentially threatening.
Strictly speaking, stress is an individual's subjective feelings and assessments of the external environment, that is:
Stress depends on how you think, what you think is, not what you don't.
When this happens, the brain secretes hormones including epinephrine, which flows through blood vessels to various parts of the body.
When these hormones flow to the heart, lungs and muscles, a special physiological response occurs.
Symptoms of the "state of readiness" reaction: stress appears, the heartbeat begins to increase, breathing begins to be rapid, muscles tense and ready to act, vision becomes sharp, drums are played in the stomach, sharp thinking begins to sweat.
Nervousness and anxiety remain in the body and accumulate with every thing that can cause tension, eventually leading to bad outcomes.
Stress can also be seen as a reaction caused by setbacks and failures, which takes time to ease.
The mind also needs to "lose fat", and the emotions also need to "lose weight"
Slimming down is on your own, no one can control your mouth, and no one can force you to start exercising.
Many people treat obesity as a simple physiological problem, but ignore the psychological factors behind it.
Most people, when they just decided to lose weight, are scrappy, full of confidence, and can still insist on keeping their mouths shut and opening their legs, but once they encounter bad mood, pressure, and temptation, those suppressed appetites are eventually magnified by 10 times the regurgitation and begin to retaliate.
Many times, we eat too much, largely not because of physical hunger, but because of psychological needs, which is often referred to as "emotional eating" in psychology.
The less stress most people resist, the more lacking they are inside, the easier it is to use food to increase their sense of security, naturally the more difficult it is to lose weight, the fatter the more uncomfortable, the more uncomfortable the more they want to eat.
Constantly losing weight in feelings of guilt and shame, and quickly rebounding, even suffering from physical or psychological diseases.
If the "underlying code" of obesity is not cracked, and the psychological problems are not solved, no matter how hard you try, it is useless.
No matter how much you enjoy your work, you need to enter the working mode of the sympathetic nervous system at work:
Fight or flight patterns, increased pressure hormone cortisol, adrenaline secretion, glucose entering our bloodstream, giving us the energy to do our job.
When faced with stress, we tend to consume more sugar to provide us with energy.
Even when the work is over, the tense muscles and nerves cannot immediately relax back to the parasympathetic nervous system working mode:
rest.
Psychological stress brings changes to the body.
It makes the heart beat 4 times faster than its normal level, and so does the effect on the lungs .
Cortisol suppresses blood vessels , prompting blood pressure to rise to dangerous levels .
It will make the population dry tongue, stomach and intestines pause, face without blood, pale all over the body, disrupt the immune system.
It destroys sleep, reduces libido and fertility, delays wound healing, and increases the probability of human diseases from periodontal disease, skin diseases, and autoimmune diseases.
It destroys short-term memory and the ability to think rationally.
In fact, it also contracts part of the brain function , even leading to overeating .
We know that many people overeat when they are stressed, and this is one of the symptoms we talked about earlier.
When people feel stressed, they habitually look for comfort from food.
Why do I gain weight without eating?
In the face of stress, the body's metabolism will slow down, and some garbage cleaning work will be stopped first.
The metabolized ones are not metabolized.
So I gained weight.
Why does sleeping well lead to weight loss?
Teacher Yin Ye answered the question with a paragraph, and he explained why people who sleep well will be in good shape.
Being able to perform high-quality deep sleep first proves that the person's psychological state is very good, and he (she) can adjust his or her brain waves to a more comfortable state, which is a skill in itself.
The so-called "if the mind is free of worries, you can sleep well" is this.
Everyone must have a deep sleep, because the process of deep sleep allows our bodies to produce a large amount of substances that cannot be secreted during waking or light sleep.
One of them is called "leptin", which was probably discovered in the 1950s and 1970s, and this thing will make people not fat.
During deep sleep, the human body secretes "leptin", which will make you metabolize some unnecessary fat.
That is to say, exercise and dieting, plus sleep to lose weight, staying up late will make you fat.
Get enough sleep, good mood and reduce stress
Sleep is not enough, our body will reduce the secretion of a substance called "leptin", it is easier to increase the pressure of the body, when there is pressure, the body begins to consume carbohydrates to supply energy, but to store rather than use and break down fat as an energy source.
If you take a long-term diet or fasting method to lose fat, your leptin levels will be very low, which will lead to frequent hunger.
At this moment, the human brain finds that your leptin level is low, assuming that you are in a "survival crisis" state, it will immediately reduce your metabolic rate to ensure that the body adapts to this environment, which explains the phenomenon of "the more you diet, the less likely you are to lose weight".
Popular Science: What is Leptin?
Leptin: The first discovered fatty hormone, secreted by white fat cells, sends a chemical signal to the brain to "eat, stop eating."
Leptin, reaching a certain amount will indicate that the hypothalamus suppresses appetite, increases metabolic rate, inhibits fat synthesis, then the weight and fat amount will be significantly reduced.
If leptin levels are too low or obstructed, it can lead to fat buildup and weight gain.
For every 1% increase in leptin in our body, the average weight drops by 0.37 kg.
Stress is not just about bringing about hormonal changes, but more importantly, about a series of "fattening behavior patterns":
1. Emotional Eating:
The increase in cortisol levels made me crave unhealthy foods and eat more than usual. Not because of hunger, but because of the hope that food will help relieve stress:
The act of snacking gives us a sense of "holiday relaxation" from eating popcorn in a movie theater, even if the effect is fleeting and ends up with only a pile of difficult belly fat.
2. Fast Food and Takeaway:
When the work is busy, naturally do not want to go home in a state of fatigue to make a nutritious and healthy meal, at this time only the fastest to buy high-carb high-fat food, eat first.
These foods are rich in calories and continue to leave excess fat left behind.
3. Less exercise:
When the schedule is tight, or when the body is tired, the last thing you want to do is exercise, especially the office crowd.
4. Irregular diet:
In the busy, they often forget to eat temporarily, or they are too late to eat, and simply do not eat:
Skipping breakfast or lunch is a more common pattern.
For the easy fat physique, eating too much at night, the digestive system can not bear this digestive responsibility at all, can only let the food into fat, stored in the body.
5. Sleep less, insomnia:
The more tired I became, the more I couldn't sleep, I was obviously tired, my eyes couldn't open my brain but I was still very excited; my body didn't want to move anymore, and my brain was still running at high speed— stressful insomnia, and the nervous system was still working in a tense mode.
If you don't sleep well at night, you may supplement your sleep during the second day, and then continue to have insomnia at night... Cycle.
Another perspective on overeating:
People are generally insecure and prone to fear, while "hunger fear" – like a mark in the brain – is preserved.
The so-called "people take food as the sky" this ancient saying has been passed down to this day, the Chinese people think about "how to eat and what to eat" every year during the festival, which is the embodiment of the national "traumatic memory" in folklore;
The common opening phrase "Have you eaten" among people is the embodiment of national "traumatic memory" in interpersonal relationships.
These memories are passed on to their parents.
They are so "stubborn" in educating their children to find a stable job, such as a doctor, a teacher, a civil servant, and that salaries are not stable, perhaps because the "traumatic memory of hunger" is at work.
They repeatedly teach young people not to take risks and not to show their heads based on their own experience, but most young people do not listen to them because they do not have these experiences.
The emotional imprints of unconscious emotion and family trauma are buried in our lives like packs of explosives, ideally never detonated.
Even if these explosive packs do not explode, they will continue to be passed on like "drums and flowers" in the transmission of life.
Many people maintain a sense of meaning by repeatedly recalling the feeling of scarcity.
When people are in a state of scarcity, it is difficult to make any slow analysis and thinking, and the whole meaning of ta's life is "to obtain (food and water) to preserve the existence of the body", which relieves people of the trouble of choice, because there is no way to choose.
When scarcity is eliminated, the question of how to transcend death anxiety arises again, and if the person concerned does not reflect on it, it is likely that he will not be able to mentally escape the lack of childhood for the rest of his life.
In a sense, it can even be said that many Chinese are trying to put themselves in the predicament of material scarcity in order to avoid facing the more brutal fact that "my spiritual world is deserted."
Because only the meaning of striving for food is the least likely to be questioned by others and oneself.
Everyone can't avoid repressed emotions.
When we were young, we were dependent on our parents and others, and we didn't have enough ability to be independent, we didn't have enough ability to protect ourselves, and it was almost impossible not to repress.
Repression allows us to retreat into our own space, allowing us to breathe and rest.
Although repression ensures safety, it does wrongfully or even distort our true selves, and even some people will form habitual repression.
If a person is locked in a box for a long time, his legs cannot stand and walk immediately.
If we have the habit of repression, it is difficult for us to suppress it when we do not need to suppress it, and we will become particularly aggrieved and angry.
Ways to relieve habitual repression:
Trying to be aware of and distinguish between past (childhood) repressions that "had to" . Then you need to understand – I'm an adult now, do I really need to?
Now my strength and ability are dozens of times greater than my past self.
I've had the ability to change, to express myself authentically.
If we are still willing to endure repression, then we must also accept that this is the way we are for the time being.
Don't blame yourself and hurt yourself. The inertia of fear and repression exists objectively, and it takes time and strength to lift any habit, and it cannot be achieved overnight.
About weight loss: What you really face are emotions and stress that are not properly handled and settled.
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