5 Reasons Why Dieting Will Not Help

Dieting remains one of most commonly-used approaches towards weight loss . Most researches in this niche point towards a global pattern wherein dieters easily lose up to 10% of their weight during the initial phase of dieting, only to see themselves unable to lose more weight or find the fatty deposits slowly surface, again. Weight-regain is very common among chronic dieters and visible, healthy weight-loss is found among a discouragingly low proportion in this group. Here are 5 reasons why Dieting is mostly, bound to fail:However, it might be heart-breaking for many to realize that Dieting is least likely to help you lose weight, particularly sustained and effectiveweight-loss.

1. Restricted Calories=Lowered Metabolism

You need to understand that the rate at which your body metabolizes or uses the energy sources in the form of calories is directly affected by your range of physical activities across the day and eating patterns. Drastic reduction in calorie intake means that you are slowing your metabolism. This is because when the body finds increasingly lesser calories at its disposal, it slows its metabolic activities with the aim of conserving calories. Conservation is done in the form of more fat deposition. A lowered metabolism ensures inability to continuously lose weight.

2. Enter Starvation Effect, Exit Effective Weight Loss

Low Calorie diet regimen leads to lowered metabolism which in turn means less energy to carry out your daily range of activities. Further, the obsession to deprive yourself of your favorite foods means the tendency to avoid social gatherings. This kind of alienation and the lethargic feeling due to lowered metabolism can turn into primary reasons for stimulating depressive tendencies. Such folks are more prone not to exercise and develop long-term psychological problems due to continued deprivation which further reduces chances of sustaining weight-loss in the long-term.

3. Dieting Doesn’t Help You Develop Long-term Weight-loss Lifestyle

The dieting approach is flawed at its core. It doesn’t encourage you to plan your meals, look for healthier, more nutritious food choices or develop beneficial lifestyle habits like exercising regularly. Dieters tend to have lowered energy levels and extreme mood swings, making them incapable of exploring or endorsing such healthy lifestyles.

4. Dieting Weight Loss Is Lean Body Weight Loss

Diets that drastically restrict the caloric intake usually tend to facilitate more of lean body weight loss. Lean weight is different from fat weight. Lean Body Weight Loss is achieved via loss of carbohydrate and protein deposits in the body that also causes loss of lean muscle mass. This means that a severely dieted person can have high levels of body fat!

5. Dieting Cannot Resolve Weight Gain Factors

Dieting does little to resolve the issues that are inducing the weight-gain or fat deposition. This includes causes like reaction to medications like anti-depressants or hormonal substitute pills. People tend to gain weight because of long-term stress or
anxiety as well as because of medical conditions like hypothyroidism. Women who are beyond the age of 45 and those who entered menopause are naturally prone to gaining weight and losing muscle mass. Dieting cannot deter such chronic, weight-gain factors. 

Exercise Without Leaving Your Bed

Don't have the willpower to get out of bed on winter mornings to exercise? You don't have to.

Get the day's workout (and the grogginess!) out of the way.

Leg Lifts

Turn over and lie down on your stomach. Now lift your legs and hold. This will workout our buttocks.

However, avoid this exercise if you have a spinal injury or back problem

Upper Body LIfts

Lie down flat on your body, and lift up your upper body (your torso) up. Aim for two reps of 10

Stretches

Lift your knees, and pull them close to your upper body, and hold for a few seconds.

Stretch your upper body by taking a deep breath and stretch out your hands upwards and outwards. you can also hold your hands together ,and aim for a small crunch.

For variety, alternate hand stretches - one stretching up and pulling down, and stretch to the left and right. You can also lift your knee to your chest and pull it (gently!) towards your body (and repeat for both knees)

Keep a sponge stress ball by your bedside, and give out 10 squeezes in each hand to wake up your hand's nerve endings.

When you are feeling awake, sit up in bed, spread your knees and try to touch your toes. This will add flexibility and mobility to your joints.

Neck Rolls

Gently rotate your head and neck, from left to right, and then back, using your pillow.

This is a gentle massage for the muscles in your neck and upper shoulders, and activate more blood flow to your brain

Crunches

Lie down on your stomach, sit up your legs and aim to touch your knees with your head. For beginners, a single rep of 5-10 crunches should suffice. 

Keep stress at bay and control diabetes with these asanas

YOGA has wide-ranging therapeutic values, one of the most important being the management of type 2 diabetes. But how exactly does yoga prevent/cure diabetes? 

Yoga helps you keep your blood sugar levels under control in three ways: by checking your weight; by relieving stress (a major trigger for escalating blood glucose levels) and by improving the functions of the pancreas (the organ that produces insulin, a glucose-regulating hormone). Even though there's very little scientific data to prove yoga's action on the pancreas, wisdom in the field points to it. I would recommend a few asanas that will help you control diabetes better than before.

BHUJANGASANA 

Lie on your stomach with legs and toes together and pointing outward, hands by the side of the body, palms facing upward and forehead on the floor. Now bend hands from the elbows and place palms on the floor near each shoulder. Keeping your thumb under the armpit, raise the chin and turn the head backward over the right shoulder as you inhale. Raise the thorax up to the navel. Hold this position for some time while breathing normally. Come down to the starting position while exhaling. Also good for bronchitis, asthma and spondylitis. It strengthens the spine, lends flexibility to the chest, shoulders and abdomen and firms the buttocks.


DHANURASANA 

Lie on your stomach and bend your knees, holding your ankles with both hands. Inhale and raise the upper body and legs. Hold for some time, breathing normally and come back to the starting position. Also good for digestion, this asana cures constipation while strengthening and improving the function of your spine.

NAUKASANA 

Lie down on your back with your feet together and palms resting on your thighs. Inhale and raise both legs, lifting your upper body off the floor. Hold it for some time and breathe normally keeping your hands parallel to the floor. Now come back to the starting position slowly. Also good for nervousness and tension. Naukasana lends flexibility to your joints and bolsters the capacity of your intestines, while improving the functions of your stomach, liver and pancreas.

BHRAMARI PRANA-YAMA 

Sit on the floor in a comfortable posture with a straight back, eyes closed and shoulder muscles relaxed. Inhale deeply and exhale slowly with a murmuring sound like a bee. Also good for lungs. It enhances your oxygen efficiency by reducing carbon-dioxide in the blood.

VAMANKRIYA 

Add one tablespoonful of salt to one litre of lukewarm water and drink all of it, as quickly as possible, until you feel full to the point of throwing up. Lean forward and insert the middle and index fingers of your right hand deep into your throat. Vomit out the water until your stomach is empty. Relax in the shavasana pose for 10 mins. You need to do this near a wash basin. Also good for gastro-intestinal problems. It also relieves you of headaches, nervous weakness, chronic cold and asthma.