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Do you feel this way too? You follow a healthy, well-selected diet, you try to exercise regularly and eat regularly, you drink the right amount of water… and your weight stays as if by magic?
Statistics show that only 20% of people who fight overweight and obesity lose weight permanently and feel satisfied with their body. The remaining 80% of people struggle with obesity for the rest of their lives. Why is this happening?
There are many enemies of weight loss standing in the way of our dream figure, thwarting our aspirations. One of the complicating factors are health problems, including: hypothyroidism, polycystic ovary syndrome, which causes hormonal disorders, which makes it difficult to lose weight. However, the presence of these diseases does not make us doomed to obesity. Treating the underlying disease in combination with the weight loss process produces excellent results.
Chronic stress is also a serious and frequent enemy of weight loss.
This factor blocks the fight against excessive body weight, because during stress, cortisol, i.e. the stress hormone, is released, which stimulates the body to produce additional glucose, which in turn is transformed into fat tissue, deposited in the abdominal area, creating the so-called “cortisol belly”. However, in this situation, an irreplaceable dietary supplement comes to the rescue Calivita Stress Management – anti-stress complex, i.e B vitamins along with vitamin c and magnesium. Why? Well, the body mainly needs glucose to burn B vitamins. And people living under constant stress consume excess of these vitamins, because they are also necessary for the proper functioning of the nervous system and maintaining proper psychological functions. Stress Management is an irreplaceable product because its active ingredients not only soothe the nerves, but also help to maintain proper energy metabolism.
Another important element in achieving the correct body weight is regular physical activity, because it burns excess calories, builds muscle tissue, increases the amount of dopamine in the brain, and this lowers cortisol levels.
Another opponent of weight loss is magnesium deficiency.
Low concentrations of this element promote mechanisms leading to obesity, mainly visceral obesity. Why is this happening? Well, magnesium deficiency causes chronic inflammation, which reduces the body’s sensitivity to the satiety hormone, which results in overeating and weight gain. To sum up: to control hunger and constant snacking, you need to mobilize the satiety hormone – leptin into action and ensure proper magnesium supplementation. In addition magnesium called the element of life, in stressful situations when the brain is constantly on alert and cannot switch to rest mode, effectively reduces the level of stress hormones – adrenaline and cortisol – in the adrenal glands.
That’s why I advise – as a dietitian and a person using supplements Calivita for over 20 years – let’s reach for 200-300 mg of magnesium. Without this ingredient, the fight against stress is a fight against windmills. I recommend, among others: product MagneZi B6 containing magnesium in the form of magnesium citrate and vitamin B6 and zinc.
Next to magnesium, another important element in the weight loss process is zinc. This element contributes, among others, to: to maintain proper fatty acid metabolism, it also increases the sensitivity of cells to leptin and increases the production of this satiety hormone in the body.
So let’s try to be physically active, regardless of the season. Let’s never eat stress, because this way of relieving ourselves is the most disastrous. It leads to a significant excess of calories consumed and metabolic disorders, because the digestive system will never have time to cleanse itself.
In addition stress, improper diet, and medications disturb the bacterial florawhich plays a leading role in maintaining the good health of every person.
It is not for nothing that we talk about the relationship: healthy intestines – healthy person. Here I will also advise using a synbiotic AC-Zymes Pluswhich contains as many as six strains of probiotic bacteria: Lactobacillus acidophillus, lactobacillus bulgaricus, lactobacillus plantarum, lactobacillus rhamnosus, bifidobacterium longum, bifidobacterium breve and the prebiotic – fructooligosaccharides FOS.
Do we have to let stress rule us and obesity take away the joy of life? After all, there are ways to regain inner peace and satisfaction with your body. These are simple actions that we can implement today.
With wishes for energy to act,
Alicja Gancarz – dietitian, Krosno
