Spinal manipulation for weight loss, bowel-regulating exercise for weight loss, and sleep reduction for weight loss.
How to lose weight using spinal pinching?
The spine is located in the middle of the back of the human body and is the route of the Governing Vessel (Du Mai). The Governing Vessel has the function of governing the Yang Qi of the whole body and connecting the Yin Qi of the whole body.
The Bladder Meridian of Foot Taiyang runs along both sides of the spine. This meridian contains back-shu points where the Qi of the internal organs is transported, namely the shu points of the heart, lungs, liver, spleen, gallbladder, stomach, kidneys, large intestine, small intestine, and bladder.
These acupoints are located close to the corresponding organs, which can not only adjust the body's yin and yang balance, but also regulate qi and blood and organ function, and dredge the meridians, thereby playing a role in weight loss.
When pinching the spine, the practitioner should make a semi-fist shape with the middle, ring, and little fingers of both hands, with the index finger half-flexed and the thumb straight. The thumb's crease should be aligned with the radial side of the second interphalangeal joint of the index finger, with a certain distance between the two thumbs and the tiger's mouth facing forward. Starting from the Changqiang acupoint on the coccyx, pinch the skin up, with the nails of both index fingers close together, and push and pinch upward along the spine to the Dazhui acupoint. Repeat 3-5 times.
Then use both thumbs to massage the Shenshu acupoint 30 times.
When performing spinal manipulation, obese individuals should lie prone, straighten their backs, and relax their back muscles.
Children can lie on an adult's lap to stabilize their lower limbs and prevent their knees from moving, making the procedure easier.
How to use a laxative exercise to lose weight?
It has been observed that more than half of obese people suffer from constipation.
Studies by foreign scholars have confirmed that long-term overeating and constipation can easily lead to decreased memory, sluggish thinking, poor concentration, and weakened stress response.
Japanese scholars have found that about 30-40% of Alzheimer's patients suffered from habitual constipation and obesity during their youth and middle age.
People with chronic constipation produce more toxic substances because their stool stays in the intestines for a longer time. If the amount absorbed exceeds the liver's detoxification capacity, it can cross the blood-brain barrier, damage the central nervous system, and affect intelligence.
Regular bowel movements increase intestinal motility and enhance the gastrointestinal tract's stress response, thereby promoting metabolism, timely excretion of toxins, and increased fluid excretion, thus achieving weight loss.
If you have difficulty defecating, you can try the following methods to relieve constipation:
(1) Massage to relieve constipation
First, use your fingers to massage the Zhongwan acupoint, located 13 cm below the navel, in a clockwise direction for 50-100 times. Then, use your palms to massage your abdomen (with the navel as the center), in a clockwise direction for 50-100 times. Next, use the little finger side of both palms to push and rub downwards for 50-100 times. Then, swing your waist in a clockwise direction for 50-100 times. Finally, place your hands on your waist and lift your anus 50-100 times to strengthen the anal sphincter muscles.
(2) Laxative drugs
You can choose any of the following methods: ① 9 grams of raw rhubarb, decocted and taken once a day; ② 3 grams of sodium sulfate, swallowed once a day; ③ 6 grams of senna leaves (daily dose), brewed as tea; ④ 0.1 grams of phenolphthalein tablets, 1-2 tablets each time; ⑤ Glycerin enema.
(3) "Cold drink therapy" to relieve constipation
Drinking cold water regularly and in measured amounts, such as cold milk, cold boiled water, cold fruit juice, cold honey water, or cold soda, may stimulate gastrointestinal motility, promote intestinal reflex contractions, and help with bowel movements.
It is best to drink it after waking up in the morning.
How to lose weight by reducing sleep?
Obese people need more sleep than normal people. Excessive sleep increases the body's opportunities for anabolic metabolism and reduces its opportunities for metabolic consumption. As a result, the body will increase the opportunities for fat synthesis at any time of day and night.
Eating until you're full and then sleeping, then eating again after waking up, will cause fat to accumulate and make you fatter and fatter.
The fatter you are, the more you want to sleep, and the more you sleep, the more likely you are to gain weight, thus creating a vicious cycle.
A person spends about one-third of their life sleeping, and obese people tend to sleep even more.
Obese people often have phlegm and dampness, which can easily cause drowsiness. Therefore, obese people are characterized by "eating a lot and sleeping a lot".
In response to the unhealthy habits of excessive sleepiness among obese individuals, medical experts suggest that reducing sleep can be a method to help them lose weight.
Those who need to lose weight are obese people. They need to overcome the habit of being sleepy and sleeping too much, and try to find more "things" to do.
If you can sit, try not to lie down; if you can stand, try not to sit; if you can walk, try not to take a car. This will help increase your physical activity, combat drowsiness, and prevent excessive fat synthesis in your body.
To reduce sleep and overcome the habit of excessive sleepiness, in addition to having willpower and determination, you can also use some refreshing drinks, such as tea and coffee. This can eliminate body fat and refresh you to reduce sleep, which is truly a win-win situation.
British experts have recently unveiled a "miniature sleep-prevention device" that resembles a ring and can continuously measure the electrical resistance of the human skin.
When a person feels sleepy, the skin's electrical resistance will react.