[LifeStyle] So you can lose weight while you work

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The arch-repeated formula for losing weight is to combine a healthy and balanced diet with an active lifestyle that includes physical exercise. But what happens when we spend eight hours or more sitting in a chair?

Sedentary lifestyle is one of the main causes of being overweight in western society. In fact, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), sedentary lifestyle is among the four factors with the highest risk of death.

If we look closer, Spain is the fourth country in Europe with the highest rate of po[CENSORED]tion that does not practice physical exercise, according to the European Heart Network. And is that in addition to work, leisure activities, such as watching television or tablet, also involve a passive state.

A sedentary lifestyle can lead to not only being overweight or obese; Also, heart problems, back pain, vision problems, diabetes ...

 

How can I lose weight while working?

 

Increase your NEAT
Accelerating metabolism helps burn calories and therefore lose weight. Playing sports is a great way to achieve this, but also by increasing the basal metabolism, that is, consuming calories when we are at rest.

Through NEAT (Non-Exercice Activity Thermogenesis) we can increase basal metabolism. Although it sounds very technical, it refers to those daily activities that we do and that affect the amount of calories we burn. Climbing stairs instead of taking the elevator or substituting the subway / bus for the bicycle or for walking fast are activities that help increase NEAT, and therefore burn calories.

Work standing up
Nutritionist Miquel Gironès, one of the most po[CENSORED]r on social networks that accumulates thousands of followers on social networks, ensures that when you are standing for several hours (either working or for any other circumstance), your metabolism is activated. Your body is working harder and that's why it's easier for you to lose fat. Try doing it for a few hours.

Raise your computer or phone if you are in the office and work several hours on your feet. This will make your body work even if you do not leave the environment of your working life. You will also be tired, and that will make you sleep better at night. And it is that resting seven or eight hours in a row and quality a day is essential to lose weight.

 

Smart bracelets

Thanks to the so-called smart bracelets (and also with a simple mobile phone) you can get the device to notify you every hour and "force" you to move. Taking at least 100 steps every 60 minutes avoids sedentary lifestyle. Moving is the most important thing you can do during the day and if you manage to take 15,000 steps a day you can even lose weight or lose weight.

 

Eating fat burning foods
Diet plays a key role in losing weight, but it is not necessary to starve yourself or eat salads all day. Some natural foods help us get more satiety and speed up metabolism, making it easier to burn fat.

What are these foods? Broccoli, eggs, lean meat, nuts, quinoa, tomato, Greek yogurt, fish with omega 3 ... Also liquids like coffee or lemon water are excellent natural and healthy fat burning foods.

In this sense, it is better to take a tupper to eat at work with one of these options. In this way we avoid exceeding the calories that we ingest if we go to a restaurant and it helps us to choose a more balanced and healthy menu.

Change soft drinks and alcohol for water at meals

Do you eat with sugary soft drinks or alcohol? If you do not choose the "zero" range of the first ones or choose well what alcoholic beverages you have to drink, you will be adding too many calories to your diet (totally unnecessary).

That will contribute to the most important thing of all: that you lose weight in a healthy and healthy way and that you do not do it in such a radical way that in a short time you gain much more weight than you have lost. This is what is known as the dreaded "rebound effect".