Skipping Meals

Meal-skippers are more likely to make up for a missed meal by overeating and making unhealthy food choices.

Studies have shown that using red plates can help people eat less, as the colour red is subconsciously associated with caution and stopping. This subtle cue encourages people to be more mindful of their eating habits.

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Potential causes for weight gain

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Uncontrolled Eating

Overeating occurs when you consume larger portions of food than necessary, often without realising it. This is especially common when multitasking, such as eating while working or watching television, making it easy to lose track and forget to stop.

Constantly snacking on unhealthy snacks such as chips, cookies or candy bars can also result in weight gain.

Instead of addressing physical hunger, you might be turning to food to satisfy emotional needs, which can derail your weight loss plan.

Eating Too Fast

It takes about 20 minutes for the "stop eating" signal to reach your brain, so eating too quickly can override this mechanism, making you more likely to overeat.

Unwise/Unhealthy Food Choices

Consuming "unhealthy" food such as fast food, processed food, sugar-laden food and simple carbohydrates (carbs) are very high in calories and do not make you as full.

Sugary Drinks

Consuming excessive sugary drinks such as soda, energy drink, sweetened milk, coffee and tea amount to nothing but a lot of empty calories and unhealthy spikes in your blood sugar level.

Lack of Sleep

Having not enough sleep leads to increased levels of hunger-stimulating hormone ghrelin, which may cause you to overeat unnecessarily.

Stressed Out

Your body cranks up the production of cortisol when you’re feeling a lot of pressure. Elevated cortisol levels stimulate appetite and cause food craving, resulting in weight gain.

Being Inactive

A sedentary lifestyle slows down your body’s metabolism. Being inactive may result in weight gain with a reduced ability to burn fat and an increase in fat storage in the body.

8

Ways

to Beat

Weight Gain

Hydrate yourself,

especially before meals

Limit or eliminate

processed foods

Eat smaller

portions

Chew food

thoroughly

Never skip

your meals

Being physically

active

Reduce stress

Get more Zzz’s

Very low-calorie diets can backfire by signaling to your body that it's facing a famine, causing it to preserve energy and slow down your metabolism.

To lose 1kg, you need an expenditure of approximately 7,700 calories. That's equivalent to running for at least 12 hours.

30 minutes of being in any fixed position actually slows down your metabolism.

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