Can yoga really help you lose weight?

In today's society, there are really various ways to lose weight, and advertisements for various slimming drugs are everywhere. In fact, this is in response to the idea of ​​many beauty-loving women who want to lose weight. Many of these women take some medications and undergo surgery because they want to lose weight. These are all unhealthy. Compared with these methods, yoga is a healthy way to lose weight. So, can practicing yoga really help you lose weight?

Calories consumed

There are many yoga postures, which are combined with deep breathing to achieve meditation. When practicing, the first thing to emphasize is that each posture must be done to the practitioner's personal limit, and the posture must be maintained for 2 to 3 deep breaths. The human body consumes a certain amount of calories when completing each unconventional posture or maintaining a posture.

So some people say: The calories burned by practicing yoga seriously are equivalent to playing a game of tennis. The difference is that playing tennis is accompanied by hunger, while yoga makes you feel refreshed and there is no physiological or psychological need to replenish food.

2. Adjust endocrine

Once the autonomic nervous system composed of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves is out of balance, endocrine disorders and metabolic disorders will occur, which can cause people to continue eating without feeling full. If this continues, the body will inevitably gain weight. Yoga can adjust the imbalance of the autonomic nervous system, which is mainly achieved through deep breathing and correcting the shape of the spine. Deep and complete exhalation can restore the function of the parasympathetic nervous system, inhibit appetite, harmonize hunger and fullness, and align food intake with calorie needs.

In addition, a large number of yoga exercises are used to correct hunchbacks and spinal curvature. While correcting the position of the spine, it actually "straightens out" the nerve pathways, unconsciously adjusting the autonomic nervous system, eliminating the practitioner's excessive appetite, and allowing the practitioner to lose weight easily without deliberately dieting.

3. Guide dietary orientation

Yoga can also cultivate good dietary preferences for practitioners, so some people say that yoga will tell you what you should eat. For example, when practicing yoga movements that require high flexibility of joints and ligaments every day, practitioners will find that if they consume too much high-calorie food such as animal fat (the blood is acidic), the joints and ligaments will become sore and they will not be able to complete the movements well. On the contrary, a diet mainly composed of vegetables and fruits (alkaline foods) can relieve joint pain. Therefore, if a person likes yoga, he will gradually tend to choose foods such as vegetables and fruits, so that his diet is both nutritious and low in calories. Over time, it will become a good living habit and your weight will not rebound after losing weight.

Everyone knows clearly whether practicing yoga can really help you lose weight. In fact, it is a topic that everyone has been paying attention to for a long time. What I want to tell everyone is that you must not make blind choices during the process of losing weight. Choosing according to your own physical condition not only has a good weight loss effect, but also has great benefits for your health.