Lose Weight this Way

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Lose Weight this Way

Lose weight for your health. Covid-19 infection effects people with co-morbidities more so than people without. Co-morbidities are underlying illnesses or diseases that a person has prior to covid infection. Co-morbidities include but are not limited to diabetes, asthma, auto-immune disease, heart disease, cancer and even being overweight. Even mild obesity can raise the risk of severe covid. Obesity is defined as being 30 or more pounds over your normal bodyweight. Mild obesity increased the risk of respiratory failure 2.5 x and also gives you a 5 x greater risk of being admitted to the ICU. Those with a body mass index of 35 and over were 12 x more likely to die from covid. Inflammation triggered by carrying the extra bodyweight can increase the risk of lung blood clots three fold. One of the most important factors for overall health is to be within a few pounds of your target bodyweight. Sadly, society today makes being at a normal bodyweight difficult because of processed foods, junk foods and soft drinks which are the key factors in our nation’s rise of obesity. These types of foods all play a role in chronic disease and increase your risk of severe covid-19. To be healthy, diet and exercise are paramount. All of the recent research points to time restricted eating as a way of building metabolic health. Metabolic health is overall health. Cellular metabolism has to do with the control of everything in the body. Time restricted eating is eating all of your daily food within a certain time window of the day. For instance, if your last bite of food is at 7pm, your next food eaten would be at 11am the next day. Your eating window is 8 hours between 11 am and 7pm. By eating in the restricted time window, you improve metabolic function, burn more calories at rest and lose weight. In addition to time restricted eating, intermittent fasting is a proven way of losing weight. Intermittent fasting is a slightly more restricted way of timed eating. 2-3 days a week, no food is eaten say from 7pm to 1 or 2pm. In conjunction with time restricted eating on the non-intermittent days, weight is lost at a faster rate and metabolism improves dramatically. And lets not forget the importance of daily exercise. 40 minutes a day of extra activity (not work related) will contribute big time to metabolic health and weight loss. Ps. Coffee, tea and water do not count as food.