Weight loss can be considered a lifelong “career” for women. We always want to find a way to enjoy delicious food without gaining weight, but that is impossible. Therefore, many people choose extreme methods for weight loss, such as excessive dieting, intense exercise, prolonged monotonous diet, or buying weight loss pills. However, all of these come at the cost of damaging health. While the effects may not be immediate, in the long run, it can lead to the development of chronic diseases and even rebound weight gain.
Firstly, we need to understand what obesity is because we often see some girls who are already thin but keep talking about losing weight, falling into the misconception that “the thinner, the better.”
Different heights correspond to different weights. We can use the table below to find our standard weight. If your current weight is higher than this value, it indicates the need for healthy weight loss. Conversely, if your weight is already light, you might need to gain weight.
To achieve healthy weight loss, you must “control your diet, exercise, and drink more water.” It’s manageable during the day, but many people lose control at night.
For women looking to lose weight, there are three things to do before going to bed.
Have dinner before 7 p.m.
Due to fast-paced lifestyles, many people are busy, and most of the time dinner is eaten late, resulting in the stomach not having time to digest food. This leads to more calories not being metabolized, staying in the body as fat, causing abdominal fat accumulation, and continuous weight gain.
Therefore, it’s essential to finish dinner before 7 p.m., allowing enough time for the stomach to digest food. If possible, engage in light exercise half an hour after eating, helping digestion, promoting intestinal motility, and calorie metabolism to prevent fat accumulation.
Enter deep sleep by 11 p.m.
Many people stay up not because they want to but because they stay up late playing games or binge-watching series. Holding onto the phone before sleeping disrupts the biological clock, severely impacting hormone levels, causing gastrointestinal function disorders, weakened digestion, inevitable obesity, and potentially various chronic diseases. The correct approach is to get into bed no later than 10 p.m. and preferably be in a deep sleep state by 11 p.m. After 11 p.m., the body’s organs begin detoxifying and adjusting to ensure the heavy daily metabolic work, including fat and calorie metabolism. Therefore, avoiding staying up late and ensuring normal bodily functions is essential for healthy weight loss.
Avoid eating anything before sleeping.
Many people have a habit of late-night snacking, which is the least favorable for weight loss. Most late-night snacks are high in oil, salt, and sugar, high in calories and fat, damaging to health. Eating before sleeping causes excessive food to linger in the digestive system, increasing the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, leading to poor digestion, fat accumulation, especially in the abdominal area, resulting in layers of “love handles,” making a person appear heavier. Therefore, it’s best not to eat anything before sleeping, including vegetables and fruits.
