Belly Fat Remains Despite Diet and Exercise... The Scientific Background Behind Middle-Aged Diet Failure

Oh Seung-ran, who has entered middle age, expressed her frustrations with repeated diet failures and the difficulty of weight management. It was revealed that she is suffering due to belly fat and weight that do not decrease, despite her efforts to combine diet control and exercise.

From single-food diets to starving... The reality faced after a 30kg weight gain

Recently, Oh Seung-ran has been combining home training with diet management for weight control. Having maintained a slim figure even after giving birth to two children after marriage, she has experienced a weight increase of about 30kg while going through menopause. She is experiencing physical changes such as knee pain due to the weight gain, and also revealed concerns such as decreased skin elasticity due to rapid diet attempts.

She revealed that she has tried various methods to lose weight, including single-food diets, diets focused on meat and fruit, taking herbal medicine, and starving diets. However, as she passed through her 40s and 50s, she faced the reality that weight does not decrease as easily as in the past. Her weight measured in the video was 82kg, and although she attempted to lose about 200g through diet control and exercise, her waist circumference remained at 37 inches.

The vicious cycle of 'diet failure' caused by compensation psychology and hunger hormones

In the process of striving for exercise and diet management, Oh Seung-ran also strengthened her will to diet by visiting a jjimjilbang (Korean sauna) with an acquaintance. However, she showed her diet resolution crumbling as she could not endure the hunger that comes after exercise and consumed high-calorie foods such as chicken and seasoned sea snails. This appeared as a result of the compensation psychology that follows exercise combined with the difficulty of appetite control.

Following these repeated diet failures, an expert's analysis followed. The expert appearing in the video pointed out that our body perceives weight loss not as a sign of health, but as a 'danger signal threatening survival.' When weight decreases rapidly, the body excessively secretes hunger hormones for survival. This explains that the moment the diet ends, it can trigger even larger binge eating than before, creating a vicious cycle where the consumed calories lead to weight gain again.

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