CCTV News: "Every festival, you can gain three pounds of weight." After the Spring Festival every year, many people will have this kind of "happy worries". Why do you gain weight every year during the Spring Festival? How to properly manage weight after the holiday? Let’s see what the experts say.
Why do you easily gain weight every Spring Festival?
Experts introduced that this is not just because you eat well and eat a lot, but the result of the superposition of the three factors of diet, exercise, and work and rest. First of all, the calorie intake in diet has increased significantly compared to usual, and the holiday has caused many people to experience a sharp drop in their exercise volume, aggravating the imbalance in calorie intake. The "biological clock" disorder caused by disordered work and rest during the Spring Festival is also very impacted. Studies have shown that the risk of obesity among people with disordered work and rest is more than 30% higher than that of ordinary people. Moreover, staying up late is often accompanied by night snacks, which will also increase the total daily calories.
How to properly manage weight after the holiday?
Adopting a gradual plan to form synergistic effects through dietary structure adjustment, exercise efficiency improvement and life rhythm optimization.
In terms of diet regulation, the first thing to do is to restore the regular three meals before the festival, balanced nutrition, avoid eating high-calorie and low-nutrition snacks, and avoid consuming large amounts of late-night snacks after dinner.
In terms of exercise, if you have exercise habits, you should resume exercise as soon as possible after the festival. If you have no exercise habits before, you can try a gradual exercise plan and gradually increase the amount of exercise until it reaches 150 to 300 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise per week, plus 2 to 3 resistance training sessions.
In terms of lifestyle, we should also adjust the normal rhythm before the festival, avoid staying up late and sleeping regularly, which will help regulate body metabolism and reduce the risk of weight gain, and try to relieve the pressure brought by just starting work or school.
