Controlled eating, fear of eating, anorexia, and sleep deprivation for weight loss: the boundaries and misconceptions of scientific food reduction.

Controlled eating, fear of eating, anorexia

The prelude to diet control is naturally eating or overeating. When one realizes the importance of diet control and understands its long-term nature and difficulty, a certain degree of fear of food will occur. This is a profound perception of the energy efficacy of food, a proper attitude of reverence for food, and naturally also reflects the hard-won nature of every meal and its supportive significance for life.

During times of food shortage, we lamented how difficult it was to have a full meal, but during times of food abundance, we realized the power of food and easily overeat without paying attention.

You don't know the cost of firewood and rice until you're in charge of a household, and you don't know how powerful food is until you lose weight! Food is neither indispensable nor should we consume too much of it; this is the original relationship between humans and food.

If fear of food evolves into anorexia, then it goes too far and goes against the very nature of eating.

For obese people, it's simply unbelievable that a moderate fear of food can develop into anorexia; such a wonderful thing is impossible.

However, there are indeed dozens of cases of people dying from anorexia every year across the country.

As a book that emphasizes dietary control, its target audience is obese people, but it must also state the minimum BMI requirement for dietary control, that is, when the weight reaches the lower limit of the BMI index, it should be stopped in time to stabilize the weight.

In particular, men with a BMI below 21 and women with a BMI below 19 should pay attention to gaining weight.

Too little fat results in a thin protective layer around blood vessels, leading to rapid energy loss when exposed to sunlight or cold, increasing the likelihood of abnormal blood counts, and hindering the body's "soil moisture" for protection.

Without adequate fat storage, one is prone to fatigue and it is also detrimental to the immune system.

"Anorexia" indicates that the formation of a psychogenic mechanism of food restriction is an excessive and extreme one.

However, its underlying principle explains the mechanism by which psychological will ultimately influences physiology.

Applying this principle appropriately can help build ambition for body shaping-some people can lose so much weight they'll die, so why can't an obese person make themselves thinner?

No group studies on anorexia patients have been found, meaning the incidence of developing anorexia from high-grade obesity is unknown.

Most of the anorexia cases we see involve patients who are already extremely thin and are excessively restricting their food intake; it is unknown whether they were ever overweight.

Theoretically speaking, people with anorexia should be among the thin people, but they have taken their thinness to an inappropriate extreme.

I feel that the likelihood of genuinely obese people developing anorexia is very small.

How effective is sleeping less for weight loss?

For those who are trying to lose weight and maintain a consistent lifestyle and diet, the occasional visit from friends, requiring them to accompany them, can be a source of anxiety.

People who were once obese were often those who loved to eat; otherwise, they wouldn't have become obese.

When friends get together, it's hard to refuse a meal at a restaurant. But facing a table full of delicious food is like a drug addict facing a test of willpower with drugs right in front of them.

Even if you repeatedly remind yourself not to overindulge and to eat in moderation, and you think you haven't eaten much when the banquet is over, you'll usually find that you've exceeded your usual amount of food at home when you step on the scale at home.

Feelings of self-blame crept over me, and I told my friends at the dinner party about the unfortunate outcome. My friend said, "Why don't you go to bed a little later tonight and burn off more of the excess nutrients?" This is indeed a way to burn off excess energy, based on the fact that metabolism is stronger when you are awake than when you are asleep, so staying awake a little longer helps to reduce the burden.

However, the extra energy consumed by staying up a little longer is very limited. As mentioned earlier, staying up for two more hours will at most result in a weight loss of about fifty grams. In other words, if you eat about fifty grams more food at a dinner party, staying up for two more hours can solve the problem. In reality, the weight gain from a dinner party can easily exceed five hundred grams. In this case, trying to reduce sleep is not an option, and even staying up all night will not eliminate the excess intake.

Moreover, what's truly terrifying is the need for subsequent hydration due to the high salt content of restaurant food; that's like a raging flood.

Smoking and drinking – should we abstain or limit them?

Doctors often use the phrase "quit smoking and limit alcohol" in their health advice, meaning that you don't have to quit drinking completely, you can drink a little, but you should quit smoking completely.

I believe this suggestion is too general, and its implied assessment of the functions of tobacco and alcohol is not very scientific.

In fact, from the perspective of weight loss and weight control, the attitude towards tobacco and alcohol can be the opposite of common medical advice; it is more reasonable to "quit drinking and limit smoking".

In general, smoking and drinking are more harmful than beneficial to health; neither is good, and it's best to avoid both.

However, in terms of the impact of smoking and alcohol on weight loss and body control, alcohol should be completely quit and smoking should be reduced (this applies to those who have already developed bad habits of smoking and drinking).

Why do I say this? It's because we need to talk about the impact of smoking and drinking on weight loss and body control.

A common joke among those who are into smoking and are in control of their weight is, "I have to be careful with everything I eat, but these days the only thing I don't have to worry about gaining weight from smoking is smoking!" This is because smoking is the only habit among those that involve ingestion that doesn't require worrying about increasing nutritional burden.

For bad habits that are hard to break, choose the lesser of two evils.

As for the potential harm of smoking to the respiratory system, that's another matter.

As we all know, there are many types of alcoholic beverages, such as baijiu, huangjiu, rice wine, fruit wine, and beer, and the effects of each type on the body are different.

It's far more complex than simply "limiting alcohol consumption."

All kinds of wines have one thing in common: they all contain a certain amount of alcohol.

The more alcohol you drink, the greater the harm to your body.

Claims that wine contains polyphenols that can help with weight loss, that moderate amounts of wine can soften blood vessels, and that moderate consumption of rice wine can improve blood circulation and dispel rheumatism are all purely business-related.

Alcohol can promote blood circulation, but considering its overall effects on the body, it doesn't offer any real benefits.

Based on research findings on human tolerance to alcohol, the relatively safe daily alcohol intake for men, taking low-alcohol spirits as an example, should not exceed 50 ml (women should consume even less).

Different individuals have different abilities to metabolize and tolerate alcohol, but just because I don't have a reaction to drinking more doesn't give me a reason to drink more.

Because alcohol tolerance can be improved through training, and a higher tolerance simply means better self-control after drinking, it does not mean that alcohol has less negative effects on the body.

In fact, the threshold for drunk driving detection used by traffic police is a measure that drinkers should take note of. Once the threshold of 20 (20 milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood) is exceeded, alcohol will affect the body's thinking and motor responses.

If the amount of alcohol consumed in daily life exceeds the threshold for drunk driving, then one should receive a "negative score" for their health.