The world right now is a battlefield for everyone trying and surviving their way through the fatal pandemic. We have reached into the eighth month of the epidemic, hitting people universally and affecting every aspect of survival.
Meanwhile, the experts and the authorities are advising to stay at home and maintain social distance, home quarantining has proved to be beneficial as well as stressful for people. Battling with stress, anxiety, feelings of isolation, and fear of contracting the disease all in totality makes one feel doomed.
During this stressful tenure, mental and physical health is essential to be maintained. The lockdown period has evoked a whole new level of challenges, ranging from procuring essential supply or the outstripping availability of sanitizers or masks.
One of the significant health concerns reported and witnessed is the weight gain issues in people. Mental and physical anxiety has caused paranoia amongst individuals resulting in issues like gaining an unhealthy amount of weight. Below are a few other causes of weight gain.
What has caused Weight Gain during Quarantine?
There could be few reasons related to your weight while staying home during the lockdown,
A languorous lifestyle
The world is on a pause mode with offices and educational institutions inactive. People are functioning from their homes, and work from home has been a new normal for a while now. Due to a certain kind of schedule that seems a daily routine for many, people who are living alone suffer due to work pressure and no time to eat appropriately.
Sometimes it becomes a case of overeating due to feeling of boredom or anxiety in some cases. When people are more into sitting for a long time and working, there is no physical activity that leads to lethargy and weight gain.
Too much stress
Studies prove that chronic stress can lead to overeating and weight gain, and this highlights the role of anxiety responsible for unhealthy weight gain. When the mind is preoccupied with financial adversities, fear of coming in contact with the virus and emotional isolation might lead to an increase in stress hormones in the body, causing you to increase your weight.
Mental Health
Amidst the lockdown and physical and emotional isolation from your loved ones, things might not seem to work out for you in terms of mental well being. During the quarantine period, there are so many cases reported related to depression and anxiety, nervous breakdown, and whatnot. Things are hard right now universally; this might show effects physically as well starting from unnecessary weight gain.
What can be done to eliminate lousy fat and reduce weight?
There are specific ways to eliminate the accumulating fat from your body during your quarantine period.
- Keep yourself hydrated, as your physical requirement of water is equally important along with a healthy diet. It is always advisable that rather than consuming added sugar preservative drinks like Soda, Juice, etc. drinking water keeps one full and hydrated. Hence, helping in reducing calories.
- Gymnasiums and other workout centers are closed due to worldwide lockdown. Still, it doesn’t mean that physical activity needs to be put aside. Working out in your homes, practicing yoga postures everyday helps in reducing weight and keeping the body fit and active the entire day.
- Even though you are working from home these days, sticking to your routine is just as important then as it was before lockdown. Hence, maintaining a proper sleep cycle, getting up in an appropriate time, and going to sleep early as well. Moreover, taking a few hours of a gap to prepare your meal and consuming it would help as well. A structured cycle can solve half of the problems.
- Do not restrict yourself to a hard fad diet by unnecessary cutting out your food habits. Consume what is healthy and drink lots of water. Prepare a meal rich in nutrients, vitamins, and minerals.
- Try to ease out your mind, talk to your loved ones, watch something, read books, keep your mind distracted from unnecessary future endeavors. Plan your present, and live it to the fullest.
