Why you should go on a diet now

What are our chances to lose weight

Earn extra weight easily, bring yourself to obesity more easily and lose weight then it is extremely difficult. Only one man is capable of 210 to lose weight. Women figure a little better - 1 to 124, but is less than percent.

Such data is received British scientistsOnly One in 210 Obese Men Reach Healthy Weight. . It would be funny if it were not terrible: the study authors in ten years monitored the weight of 278 982 participants with different degrees of obesity.

Obesity - is when your body mass index greater than 30, and we are talking about excess fat (in some athletes, too, a huge body mass index, and body fat is almost no).

Scientists have tried to find out whether the study participants will be able to return to normal body weight, or at least to lose 5% of the weight.

Conclusion was so-so: a chance to lose at least this percentage of excess weight - 1 of 12 for men and 1 in 10 for women with simple obesity. In the group of subjects with very obese (BMI greater than 40), the probability was slightly more than 1 in 8 men and 1 to 7 for women.

With the return to a normal weight is still worse. Each year, up to lose weight the healthy condition of man is one of 210 and one woman out of 124.

And the most terrible: in five years, most lost weight - 78% - again traveled to obesity.

And this despite the fact that there are many programs and tips on losing weight in the world. In fact, you can lose weight only on one condition: to spend more energy than it consumes.

People are trying to somehow cheat yourself and get around the law, invent quick diet or exercise superkompleks, but they does not work. It works only a balanced diet and regular exercise throughout life. But apparently, it requires some Herculean effort, especially if you get used to poor eating habits and a cozy couch.

Why with age more and more difficult to lose weight

Adhere to the meal plan and physical activity difficult, besides the very nature against us. For example, US adults are gaining an average of 13 kg to 50 years.

According to the Institute of Nutrition, in Russia too, things are badRussian obesity: what to do and how to lose weight?: After 30 years, half of gaining weight.

US National Institutes of power suggestsWhy Do We Get Middle-Age Spread?That the blame for this is not only food, but also biology. As shown by animal studies, at a certain age the body is activated by the DNA-dependent protein kinase - an enzyme that slows the metabolism and prevents the splitting of fat reserves in body.

This means that every year more and more difficult to make the body work the way it should be.

First conclusion: sit on a diet right now

Diet - a diet with restriction or exception of any products.

When you are overweight, you need to exclude half of the diet. When the excess weight does not yet have enough to forget about fast food, sugar and fried.

Not such a great sacrifice, but it will not grow fat, leave the plate and carbohydrates and sweets to moderation and even allow to arrange a "day of fast food," every couple of weeks with no harm to the health.

The second conclusion is starting to engage in sports had already yesterday

But this is a train that can not be late. If you still have not done so already, keep a selection of tips.

• Why do you need to go in a rocking chair, if you are a man →
• And why do you need to do this if you are a woman →
• How to start running →
• How to practice yoga →
• And how to choose the sport that you like best →

And you already watch your weight or think that you do not need yet?