Not eating much but gaining weight? The murderer is these 5 reasons

[Key Points]: Why am I still fat even though I don’t eat much? This may be because you have eaten too many high-calorie foods, have an unreasonable diet structure, have a decreased basal metabolism, or have not exercised enough.

Many women have this confusion: they don’t eat much, but they keep getting fatter. Excluding some pathological reasons, there are several reasons why people gain weight easily even though they don’t eat much:

1. Eat less but high in calories

We all know that consuming too much calories can easily lead to obesity. Some people will try to reduce their food intake to avoid excessive calorie intake. However, eating less does not mean you consume fewer calories. Think of foods that are high in sugar and fat; even if you eat less, you may still take in a lot of calories. For example, a bowl of rice contains 230 calories, and sandwich biscuits contain nearly 90 calories. The calories consumed by eating just three pieces of sandwich biscuits will exceed the calories in a bowl of rice.

2. Unreasonable diet structure

An unreasonable diet structure can also lead to eating less but gaining weight easily. A day's diet should include a variety of nutrients such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, etc. Excessive intake of fat, carbohydrates or proteins in your diet may lead to obesity. Because fat, carbohydrates and protein are nutrients that provide energy.

Among them, carbohydrates are the main source of energy. People in Western countries are very fat because their diet is high in carbohydrates. In order to solve the problem of obesity, some experts have proposed the concept of "low-carb diet", which means reducing the intake of carbohydrates.

3. Decreased basal metabolic rate

A large part of the calories consumed by the human body is the calories consumed by basal metabolism. When the body's basal metabolic rate decreases and other things do not change, the body's total calorie consumption will decrease, making it easy for the body to consume more calories than it burns, which can easily lead to obesity. As people age, their functions deteriorate and their basal metabolism decreases. At this time, even if people keep their diet unchanged, they still cannot escape the fate of gaining weight in middle age.

4. Not enough exercise

If you eat less but don't exercise enough, you won't burn many calories and it will be very difficult to lose weight. Generally speaking, to achieve the effect of fitness, the exercise time a day should be up to one hour, and to achieve the effect of weight loss, the exercise time a day should be more than one and a half hours.

5. Disordered work and rest

Staying up late, lack of sleep, and excessive stress will affect your endocrine system, affect your body's metabolism, and lead to "overwork obesity".

Source: 39 Health Network www.39.net

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