Welcome to the 30s! Your body starts to undergo a lot of changes post 30. These
changes are a part of growing older. You may feel that you’re slowing down a little
or you could feel like you’re in the prime of your life. Good healthy habits will help
you continue to enjoy the wellness of mind and body and will build the foundation
for good health for a number of years to come. Let us look at the common causes and
things which you can do to prevent weight gain.
- Cause 1 : Poor Lifestyle
- Your mundane lifestyle is one of the prime reasons for weight gain
- Less physical activity makes you the prime candidate to put on a few or more kilos of weight
What can you do
- Indulge in some daily physical activities
- Make sure you exercise daily for at least 20-30 minutes
- Walk and stay active
- Start including some strength training in your regime
- This will help you to gain strength and endurance
- Try and include a variety of workout in your routine
- Cause 2 : Not Focusing On Nutritionally Dense Food
- As we age, the body demands supplements
What can you do
- Eat nutritionally dense diet
- Add some special nutrients
- Try to include more calcium and Vitamin D in your diet
- Avoid food grazing
- Eat as per a fixed routine, give sufficient rest to your digestive system
- Cause 3 : Hormonal Imbalance
- Stress is the reason for hormonal imbalance
What can you do
- Reduce stress in your life
- Lookout for stress triggers in your life
- Plan and organise yourself, decide on things you want to concentrate on
- Declutter your space
- Do journaling, meditate
- Go out for long walks
- Indulge in self care and love
- Take out time for your hobbies
- Spend time with people who act as your stress busters, have a good laugh
- Cause 4 : Lack of Sound and Peaceful Sleep
- Your body a minimum of 7-8 hours of sleep everyday
- Lack of sleep lowers the formation of human growth hormone
- Stick to your pre planned routine
- Workout daily, your will have better sleep when you work out in the day
- Eat a balanced diet
- Be more organised and try to keep your space clean
- Cause 5 : Poor Gut Health
- 70 % of your immunity depends on your gut health
What can you do
- Eat slowly and without any distractions
- Eat in small portion size
- Avoid junk and refined food
- Lookout for food allergies
- Include more probiotics in your diet
- Eat a fibre rich diet
- Cause 6 : Fad or Low Calories Diets For Weight Loss
- Calories are not bad, your body needs calories to survive
What can you do
- When you diet, your body goes in hyper drive, it stores fat because there isn’t enough nutrition
- When you come back to your normal diet, you body then is not able to cope up
- All fad diets do more harm than good
- There are healthier ways to lose weight
- Workout, stick to time restricted eating, avoid junk / refines food or too much alcohol
- Include all food types in your diet (this is the key)
Stay Fit and Stay Healthy!