Is it good to lose weight in edema type obesity? Is edematous obesity easy to lose weight?

People who are relatively overweight are quite common around us. Generally, those who are overweight have a good appetite and may often shout to lose weight, but they cannot do so. There is a type of obesity called edema obesity, which is also known as virtual obesity. How to lose weight in edema obesity? Is edematous obesity easy to lose weight?1. Prolonged sitting and lack of movement can easily lead to edema.

Modern people are busy with their daily lives and have very little exercise time. Prolonged sitting and lack of movement, combined with maintaining the same posture for too long, can result in reduced muscle movement, obstructed lymphatic fluid reflux throughout the body, and decreased metabolic capacity, leading to waste and water retention in the body, which can easily cause edema.

2. Consuming too much sodium

People who eat too much spicy, salty food, snacks, cookies, or have too strong flavors may consume too much sodium in their diet, resulting in difficulty in draining water, swelling of limbs, and slight protrusion of the lower abdomen. Unconsciously, this can make your stomach look bigger again.

3. How to lose weight in edema type obesity

(1) Develop good exercise habits

Exercise can improve body metabolism, help burn calories, promote fat breakdown, firm the skin, gradually reduce abdominal size and waist circumference, clear water accumulation. Aerobic exercise that helps burn fat 3-5 times a week, such as brisk walking, jogging, indoor exercise bikes, etc., is the best choice. But it must be noted that after exercise, do not immediately drink cold drinks or blow cold air to cool down. This will actually cause the body's vitality to decline again and fail to promote circulation.

(2) Stay away from cold food.

When it gets so hot that you feel dizzy and lose appetite, all you want is a bowl of penetrating ice to relieve heat and cool down, including shaved ice, snowflake ice, ice cream, and cold drinks. When cold food enters the human body, it will reduce metabolism and reduce the mechanism of burning calories. In the long run, it will allow moisture to accumulate and stay in the body, allowing qi and blood to accumulate, leading to a prominent abdomen, damaging the spleen, stomach and other digestive organs, which is very harmful to health. Therefore, you can eat more warm food materials, such as onions, ginger, leeks, etc., which will help activate blood circulation, promote metabolism, or intake more natural food with drainage and diuresis, such as winter melon, cucumber, cabbage, apple, mung bean, sugar free soybean milk and other foods.

(3) Avoid processed foods

Eating too much sodium can cause swelling, but it is not only salty foods that have high sodium content. Seasoning is a breeding ground for high sodium, and foods with excessive thickening and sauce are also within the danger range. Processed meats such as cured meats, bacon, sausages, ham, or meatballs, which are not only high-fat but also have higher sodium content than regular foods, should be avoided as much as possible.

(4) Promoting lymphatic circulation

Lymph, like blood vessels, spreads throughout the body. Poor lymphatic circulation not only lowers the immune system, but also leads to edema in the body. Taking a bath alternately with hot and cold water, using changes in water temperature to stimulate blood vessel movement, or massaging the abdomen clockwise after taking a bath can improve body metabolism, promote lymphatic circulation, and improve obesity prone constitution.

4. What to eat for edematous obesity

(1) Watermelon

Watermelon is a good food for cooling off and also the best food for eliminating body swelling. Watermelon peel also has a good effect on eliminating nephritis and edema. It can be said that the whole body is a treasure. Watermelon contains a large amount of vitamins, which can supplement the nutrients that the body lacks. Therefore, eating watermelon can be said to be the best choice for swollen beauties.

(2) Green beans

Green beans have a sweet taste, a cool nature, enter the heart and stomach meridians, and have the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, clearing heat, and diuresis. When drinking mung bean soup, we should pay attention to the following problems. First, to increase the heat clearing effect, we should eat the skin together after cooking Congee or soup; Secondly, it is best not to add sugar, otherwise it will reduce the heat clearing and dampness removing effect of mung beans; Thirdly, mung beans have a cool nature and people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat too much.

(3) Red adzuki beans

Red adzuki beans have a sweet taste and enter the heart and small intestine meridians. They have the effects of promoting diuresis, removing dampness, harmonizing with blood to expel pus, reducing swelling, and detoxifying. Its heat clearing effect is weaker than mung beans, but its water promoting and dampness removing effects are stronger. It can not only treat general edema, but also treat "abdominal water disease", which is ascites caused by liver cirrhosis. Chixiaodou is usually used to make porridge or stuffing.

(4) Job's tears

Job's tears have the effects of promoting diuresis and dampness, strengthening the spleen and nourishing qi. In some areas of the south, there is a lot of rain in the plum rain season in summer. Frequent drinking job's tears porridge can dispel summer dampness. People who are prone to constipation should not eat regularly. [SEP].

(6) Apple Vinegar

Apple vinegar is an alkaline food formed by the fermentation of apples. This alkaline food can undergo a series of metabolism, presenting an alkaline state, which will make the human body in a healthy alkaline state. Alkaline substances can promote the disappearance of edema in the human body, thus relieving the occurrence of edema.

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