7 Things You Did Not Know Affect Your Weight (They’re not diet or exercise)
Exercise and diet coincide with one another when it comes to losing weight effectively. However, what can be an interesting thing to share is having a weight loss or gain a story despite you not neglecting or doing those two things.
There are real factors that affect body weight. So, if by chance you are struggling to gain or lose weight despite having a good diet and exercise don’t think it’s because it’s not working.
Let’s get to the bottom of things and find out what is preventing you from achieving your goals.
Factors that affect body weight
1. Medical conditions and medicines
Having a medical condition can affect your weight as they can interfere or cause changes within your body or bodily functions which can contribute to your weight gain or weight loss.
Some of the medical conditions that can cause weight gain are hypothyroidism, polycystic ovary syndrome or PCOS, insomnia, depression, and many others.
On the other hand, those that cause weight loss are hyperthyroidism, depression, dementia, inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes and etc.
As for medicines, there are some medications that the side effects are either weight gain or weight loss.
The best way to overcome your weight gain or weight loss concern is to consult a doctor or a medical professional, don’t ever try to self medicate as this can do you more harm.
2. Sleep
You can affect your weight by just neglecting the 7-8 hours recommended sleeping hours.
This is because depriving your body of sleep or rest makes it resort to comfort food for energy or compensation.
This works as having a lack of sleep causes the hunger hormone ghrelin, the hormone responsible for signaling the brain when the body needs food or is hungry to be produced in large amounts and at missed timings which can cause binge eating.
The same goes for the hormone leptin, which is responsible for signaling the brain when we are full or have eaten enough, however, the difference is that leptin is produced in small quantities, causing the delay in the signal, which makes us eat in larger amounts.
3. Genes
Genes also fall on the list of factors that affect body weight.
For starters, whether both of your parents are obese or underweight, chances are you are more likely to inherit this trait from them, the same applies whether it is only one parent, it might lower the chances but either way, there will be a percent as to which you might inherit the trait.
The weight of your parents is not the only factor that can affect how you weigh but also, how their genes respond to weight loss or weight gain.
In a more elaborated explanation, if your parents don’t respond to weight gain or weight loss exercises or supplements, there is also a chance that you have inherited this, not only their weight type.
However, there is no need to worry as genes only play a certain part and don’t contribute to how you weight overall.
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