8 golden moments for office workers to lose weight
8:00am to reduce the burden on your backpack
Check your handbag before you go out. Many people carry things to and from work every day that they don't need. This is an unnecessary move and may even damage your health. Take a look at whether your carry-on bag is like a treasure bag. Old magazines, expired letters, and even a gadget you bought a few days ago. Regularly clean up your carry-on bag and take out these things that you won't need that day. Put them aside.
Excessive carry-on bags can cause muscle pain, nerve tension, and back, shoulder and neck pain. These physical discomforts will invisibly kill your good desire to stand up and move, making people content to sit still. Experts warn that it is best not to let your carry-on bag be heavier than 1/10 of your weight. Drop your bag on the scale and weigh it today, and stop carrying unnecessary loads out every day.
8:15am 500 steps in the morning
The American Institute for Exercise Research once revealed in a survey report that people who like to wear comfortable and convenient clothes and shoes to go out to work walk at least 500 steps more every day on average than those who dress up and wear high heels every day. 500 steps a day may seem like a small number. If it is only for a day or two, it will not significantly improve your body. However, if you maintain this state frequently, 500 steps a day will accumulate over time, and after a few months, your body will gradually change. After persisting for a year, these extra 500 steps per day are enough to help you lose several pounds.
8:30am Listen to music and relax
Whether you drive yourself or take the bus and subway to work, put on headphones and fill your favorite music in the machine beforehand. Scholars from scientific institutions have found that the rhythm presented in music relaxes people's blood vessels, slows down the release of stress hormones, and helps lower blood pressure. These processes can make your body feel great, and you are naturally willing to move more. This music study only used classical music at the time, but in fact, as long as a kind of music makes you feel comfortable and happy, it has the functions described above on your body.
9:30am Stretch regularly
Set up a timing function in your computer in advance to remind yourself to temporarily put down the work at hand, stand up, stretch your arms, neck, shoulders, back, etc. in turn, and complete these small movements. It only takes a few minutes. After stretching in this way, you will even feel clearer and improve your work efficiency for the next period of time. From this perspective, this kind of small exercise between work is not a delay in business at all. Even if you don't have relevant calendar software installed on your computer, it doesn't matter. There are many websites and email addresses that provide this kind of regular reminder function. By setting them up, they will send you a reminder email within a predetermined time and receive such a message from themselves. Isn't it fun to send? Get started now, standing up and spending a few minutes can help you reduce sedentary pain common among professionals and prevent headaches and neurotic migraines.
10:00am Stand up and answer the phone
Get out of your swivel chair, just stand up and move as much as possible. Scientific testing data shows that standing can increase calorie consumption more than sitting when doing the same action. In just half an hour, you can consume 50 more calories. In fact, with your brain, you can stand up as often as possible during office hours without delaying work. For example, stand up when answering the phone, and hold the microphone, you can twist your neck and waist left and right at the same time; When sending and receiving faxes, you can also let the little assistant go for the time being and walk to the fax machine yourself; even while waiting for a copy, don't stand still, stretch your neck and relax your thighs; Drinking more water will not only save you from feeling drowsy, but also increase the number of times you go to the bathroom; if you want to talk to a colleague about work, don't just make the internal phone call and walk over to him. This will not only give you a chance to walk around, but also increase your intimacy invisibility; if you want to go to another floor of the company to do something, but the difference is within 5 floors, abandon the elevator and climb the stairs instead. These small methods in work are almost everywhere. Encouraging yourself to move more every day will have the effect of gathering sand and forming a tower.
12: 30am Lunch with healthy people
Anyone who values their body can find many reasons to leave the office for a while at noon. No one is really happy to spend a lot of time facing white monotonous walls, boring cubicles and computer keyboards. Find a friend or colleague who values health for lunch, which ensures that you concentrate on eating at lunch time. It turns out that people who focus on the meal itself eat 40% less food than those who refresh the web and check email while eating. This extra 40% is often part of the body that is not needed for normal functioning, and it will eventually turn into fat that accumulates on you and ruins your figure.
Secondly, eating out with friends is a good social behavior in itself, and a good social environment is very helpful in reducing stress and improving cognitive abilities, especially when the person is very principled about food. Experts believe that dining with a health-conscious person can enhance your determination to live a healthy life. At least it will no longer make your daily working meal occupied by junk food, avoiding a major problem of getting fat. No one is willing to be ruined by unhealthy food without nutrition. Find a table partner who is very principled about healthy eating can solve this problem.
14:00pm Stop and look out the window
By 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the brain's reactions began to slow down. Let yourself pause for a minute and look up at the world outside the window. In one scientific study, when subjects looked out of the window, their heart rate dropped nine times per minute and their pulse was halved compared to those who were still facing the computer screen. Many people choose to eat a handful of snacks when they work until around 4 p.m., but many times, it's the feeling of stress, not that you are really hungry. In the afternoon, regularly look out the window with a wide view, which will invisibly reduce the feeling of stress, which may make you skip unnecessary snacks and reduce calorie intake.
18:00pm Leave your computer in the office
If possible, complete all work plans for the day before leaving work. Leave work at the office, then spend your evenings relaxing your body and soul, doing a workout after work, or going home to cook a healthy dinner. If you happen to have heavy work tasks during a period of time, at least set a limit for yourself and make sure to avoid using the computer or responding to emails before going to bed. These things can disrupt your biological clock and make it harder for you to fall asleep. Because the bright light on the computer screen displays suppresses the production of melatonin-the hormone that governs the mechanism for falling asleep, reminding the body that it is time to go to bed at a set time every day.
In addition, typing on a computer can increase your heart rate and stress hormone levels. Closing your eyes and falling asleep as soon as possible will cause people's bodies to increase their metabolic rate-metabolize and consume the calories you eat more efficiently, making it less likely to accumulate fat; Because you have enough sleep, you will naturally be full of energy after waking up the next day, which also avoids the hidden danger of eating too much food. In fact, when many people feel tired and weak due to lack of sleep, they habitually eat more to replenish your strength. Now, with ensuring adequate sleep, you can completely avoid this scourge of obesity.