Some Facts About How We Can Get Fat
Buying food in bulk
It's been found that the more we buy the more we eat, scientists found at Cornell University , that when people buy large quantities of food they can tend to eat, more food within the first eight days of buying the bulk purchase of food. Only when the quantity of food tends to get lower, then we will tend to eat less.
Not taking notes
It's very easy to underestimate the amount of food that you’re eating, and the amount of exercise that you are doing as well in relation to each other, it’s a good idea to make note's of both. Either use paper and pen, or create a document on your computer, studies have shown that when you record what you are doing, you will get far better results.
Take note who you associate with, friends and family
Surprisingly enough this is something we don’t even think about, if you’re a single person on your own for instance and you are happy eating your soups and salad's and generally eating healthily. And then one day you decide to move in with your partner and share a house, and he wants to eat meat and three veg, followed by a sticky pudding.
The chances are that if he is overweight/obese then there is the possibility that you may end up the same way. A study which was conducted by the New England Journal of Medicine confirmed that, our risks of becoming obese can increase by a figure of 37 percent if our partners are overweight, and if our friends are overweight/obese then that figure goes up to 57 percent.
Using facebook and twitter
While you are using your computer and using these social networking sites, you may not be sitting down and eating a proper meal or realise the amount of time you have been spending face booking and twittering, some people were surveyed whilst using these sites and found because they were snacking instead of eating a proper meal. They gained half a stone in weight due to their snacking habits.
The shape of food
Think about the way we eat food sometimes, let’s say for instance eating a pizza these tend to be cut up into wedges, as do other foods that we tend to eat, such as pork pies, cake etc. We do tend to miss judge how much we are eating, some research which was conducted by Tennessee State University, found that we over estimate how much we are eating the actual figure they came up was 25 percent.
If you are going to eat portions from the foods mentioned above, cut them into squares instead.
Eating too fast
This may be something we have picked up in our childhood or from other people, we have a feedback mechanism which tells our brain when we are full, but all too often we have large portions of food on our plates. And we very often eat like it's a emergency, the only problem with eating like this is we can eat far more food than we should do before our brains get the message that we are full. So try to eat your food slowly this way you will eat less.
Shift working
When you work shifts this can alter the natural rhythms within your body, when you work at night this alters these natural rhythms. Which which also effects how we use energy within body, so if you are able to, try not to work shifts if at all possible.
Clothes that you used to wear
At one point in your life a lot of your clothes, may of fitted you but if you have lost weight you may longer need them, so there is not much point in hanging on to them subconsciously your more or less telling yourself that you want to become big again. So give them to your local charity shop because you don’t need them any more.
Bad weather
When the weather is poor our whole mood can change, a study that was done in Aberdeen University . Found that participants who were overweight had lower levels of vitamin D, which the body makes when we are exposed to sunlight.
Vitamin D affects a hormone called leptin, this hormone tells the brain when our stomachs are full, the study found that people who are overweight produced less vitamin D than those people who are of an normal weight. So try to get as much sun as you can when the weather is good.
Weekend take aways or treats
This can be something that we tend to do, treat ourselves at the end of the week after a hard week’s work. Nothing wrong with this of course but sometimes it does pay to take a bit of caution. In the USA a organisation called America ’s National Weight Control Registry followed a thousand people who had lost weight, they found out that people who ate more at the weekends eventually gained the weight back that they lost over the year.
Middle age spread
From your 30's onwards you tend to lose muscle, it is within your own interests to keep muscle tissue. One of the reasons is that muscle tissue is active and burns calories, where as fat isn’t. For every pound of muscle tissue you have this will burn 50 calories, even when you are not doing anything.
Source Sunday Express Magazine
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