Spoiling figure is much easier than keeping it. This is the law of life. And how sad it may sound, it is a fact. Avoid 14 things in the list below - and you will be easier to observe your shape and not go over with bad habits.
1. TV watching
Regular long TV watching - a direct path to obesity. Recent studies have shown that those who watch TV for about two hours a day, are much more prone to excess weight, than those who watch it only half an hour a day. Everything is obvious - when you watch TV, you are in a state of calm, stillness … Pulse, blood pressure and metabolism are lowered - as a result, you burn only 20-30 kcal per hour.
2. Quick meal
Eating too fast is a habit of many people. Signals from stomach reach brain after you have finished eating - hence we get overeating. Therefore, you should be eating no less than 15-20 minutes - time necessary for “stomach-brain” signals informing you are truly satisfied. Scientists believe quick eating is a cause of metabolic syndrome - high blood pressure, obesity, elevated cholesterol and insulin resistance.
3. Eating in a rush
Very often we eat while engaged in any other case. If you often eat while working at the computer, driving a car, watching television, going shopping - again, this is another direct path to obesity. You simply do not notice what you eat.
4. Frequent fast-foods
One of the main causes of obesity - constant stress and lack of time to cook healthy and full lunch and dinner. Of course, it is easier to run to the nearest fast food restaurant. Fast-foods are known for their saturated fats, low cellulose content and large portions. As a result, again, obesity.
5. Emotional eating
Emotional eating is linked with consumption of large quantities of food, which helps “eating” depression, anxiety or loneliness. But the main goal is to suppress hunger.
Experts estimate that 75 percent of overeating is linked to emotions. How many times have you seen yourself in the kitchen eating snacks or junk-food to suppress stress, but you were not hungry in both cases?
6. No time for sports
If you look at your “to-do list”, exercising possibly would take the last lines in it (if there will be). If so, you’re not alone. There’re a lot of such people. Due to constant lack of time it is very difficult to find time for exercising, but still it can be done. You just should have desire.
7. Your friends can make you fat
The study, published on July 26 2007, they suggested that obesity may be “socially contagious.” It was conducted among 12 000 people for 32 years, and found that those who had friends, brother or sister and husband, suffering from obesity, have the risk of obesity 37-57 per cent more often.
8. Lack of sleep
Lack of sleep increases the risk of obesity due to raise of ghrenalin - hormone that stimulates appetite and lowers level of leptin - hormone, overwhelming appetite. A study from Bristol University in the UK showed that, compared with a normal eight-hour sleep reduction of sleep per an hour increased the rates of fat in the body for 3 per cents.
9. Lack of information on consumed products
Many people eat food and have no idea about the value of energy they have and how much fat they contain. This leads to weight gain and bad food habits, because you can eat twice more than needed to maintain weight. Not to mention that perhaps you need not just maintain weight, but reduce it.
10. Credit cards
A study conducted by Visa among 100 000 accounts in restaurants, found that people who pay by credit card spend 30 percents more, than those who paid with cash. Average women visiting fast-food restaurant once a week, consumes 17160 kcal more per year.
11. Missed breakfast
Studies have shown that people who have full breakfast, are less prone to overweight.
12. Uncomfortable clothing
Scientists from the University of Wisconsin found that comfortable clothing for working days helps increasing physical activity.
13. Neglecting weigh-scales
Recent studies of the University of Minnesota have shown that people who weighted every day, lost 6 kilos over two years, while those who did not, - only 2 kg.
14. Boredom
Priory Group poll in the UK showed that most often people eat when they are bored, not when they have stress.
