Olvida tu  peso ideal… Piensa en  tu  peso salud

Forget your ideal weight… Think about your health

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The pursuit of ideal weight, which is often an unattainable goal, can end up leading us to a state of frustration that causes us to suffer from low self-esteem, which can affect our mood or even lead to eating disorders.
With the aim of helping people lose weight in a moderate and healthy way, Longevitas Labs is launching its Healthy Weight Challenge campaign on social media .
Are you in? Once again, that time of year is here, and many people expect miracle diets and the achievement of unattainable goals. Longevitas Labs, the first 100% Spanish laboratory specializing in anti-aging through its premium nutritional supplements, offers a real-world protocol that allows you to lose weight in 30 days. The concept of ideal weight, desirable weight, or optimal weight has often served more to encourage poor nutritional habits than to improve our health and well-being. The influence that the physical appearance of actresses and actors, models, or elite athletes exerts on many of us, in conjunction with the aesthetic trends of each era, can lead us to end up making it our goal to achieve a weight that doesn't correspond to our bio-individuality. We must be aware that an increase in our weight carries certain risks. A large waist circumference has often been associated with a higher cardiovascular risk (metabolic syndrome). Furthermore, various studies show that losing a certain percentage of weight quickly is difficult to maintain over time, not to mention possible harm to our health depending on the sacrifices we make to our bodies to achieve this rapid weight loss. Losing 5% of our weight and maintaining it over time can have substantial benefits. What is “health weight”? Each of us has a specific body structure, so simply using weight as a reference measure—and even more so if, as we said, we compare ourselves with other people who may have a very different structure than ours—can lead us to make a mistake from the outset. We should take much more into account the concept of "health weight" or healthy weight, or in other words, the weight that keeps us within an average range that helps us maintain our health and energy levels, and that we can maintain easily, without having to constantly make dietary sacrifices or endless sessions of physical exercise (or both). There are different tables that we can use as a reference to know how close or far we are from our "healthy weight", but always being very aware that each one of us is different, and that although these tables may collect the average weight and height for each gender and even in a certain age range, they are nothing more than simple reference values ​​that do not take into account aspects as important as the individual's own history. Nutrition, exercise and supplementation At Longevitas Labs, we propose a combination that integrates a healthy and varied diet, regular physical exercise, and taking certain supplements that can help us achieve the desired nutrient intake. Sometimes, whether due to the foods we eat or due to lack of time, stress, work demands, or other reasons, we cannot always eat as we would like. To help you achieve your goal in a healthy, progressive way, without compromising your intake of necessary nutrients, we have developed a combination of healthy supplements that, in synergy, cause only fat loss without affecting lean mass (made up of muscles, bones, and skin), and whose main nutritional contribution is protein. It's called Set Peso Salud (Health Weight Set), and it will help us boost weight loss thanks to the combination of these supplements. Vital Formula A high-nutritional-value food intended for people who are experiencing nutritional deficiencies or are following some type of diet. It helps you lose weight effectively and eliminate stored fat. Thanks to the combination of vegetable proteins—organic pea and rice—digestive enzymes—bromelain and papain—probiotics and prebiotics, goji berries (Lycium barbarum), Andean maca extract (Lepidium meyenii), vitamins, and minerals. In weight loss processes, it can be used as a meal replacement. Berberine It helps control blood sugar levels, regulate blood pressure, and reduce triglyceride levels. It also promotes liver purification and proper function thanks to increased protein synthesis in the liver, which helps replace damaged proteins. Relax Formula A combination of amino acids that helps improve relaxation and concentration, contributes to better sleep quality, and reduces the stress and anxiety that can arise from weight loss plans.
Speaking with our specialist Enrique González PRECISION FUNCTIONAL NUTRITION THERAPIST WITH TRAINING IN BIOCHEMISTRY, DIETETICS-NUTRITION AND NATUROPATHY
- Unless there are very specific goals or conditions, breakfast is just another meal and cannot lack all the macronutrients. - You can't leave home with just coffee and sugar or candy. They're stimulants and empty calories, providing artificial energy without any nutritional value. - This will raise blood glucose very quickly, and if insulin is unable to neutralize a higher amount that will not be used up, it will indirectly go to fatty deposits. - That is why it is important to have breakfast by introducing foods with a higher nutritional load, replacing these simple carbohydrates (sugars) with proteins (ham, turkey, egg, salmon, etc.), complex carbohydrates (with fiber) and not being afraid of healthy fats (olive oil, avocado, guacamole, nuts, etc.). - The energy provided by these foods with greater nutritional density keeps insulin spikes stable, you won't feel hungry between meals, and the body is able to consume that energy in a stable manner, gradually increasing our BMR (basal metabolic rate), the energy the body requires to survive with basic functions, mainly because we gain lean mass density (not volume) and lose fat (volume). - It's important to balance the macronutrient proportions in each dish (carbohydrates, proteins, and fats) according to each person's individual goals. Not only are calories important, but so are the proportions of these sources based on these goals. - Physical activity or exercise requires energy expenditure, so in a weight-loss plan, we need to compensate for the calories we consume with increased activity/exercise that allows us to burn more. Often, it's simply a matter of reorganizing the foods we already consume based on the nutrients they provide, without having to reduce our usual intake, but rather increasing energy expenditure. - One of the problems we face as we age is the loss of lean mass, especially if we've led a sedentary lifestyle and a poor diet. Performing strength exercises tailored to each individual with sufficient protein and complex carbohydrates will prevent sarcopenia (loss of muscle mass), which can lead to other health problems or recovery from illness. - Rest and stress reduction are also important, because elevated cortisol, produced by sustained high levels of stress, will cause other hormones involved in fat metabolism to not do their job properly. - Supplementation accompanied by a balanced and healthy diet is a plus that favors weight loss, providing extra nutrients such as specific antioxidants that will facilitate fat reduction, magnesium that will control stress levels, chromium that will control insulin levels along with plants such as berberine, or essential fatty acids that among their multiple benefits will facilitate a better lipid balance.