Weight gain can bring a lot of trouble, sometimes even obesity can make you join the ranks of the "three highs" (high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and high cholesterol). So how should we face the symptoms of obesity? Do you have any tips? Today, I will bring you some common knowledge about weight loss. Let's take a look together.
Gua Sha Weight Loss Method: Scraping Away Your Elephant Legs
Gua sha weight loss is not easy, you must have a lot of perseverance and patience to lose weight and slim down. However, the thighs are a part of the body where women tend to accumulate more fat and it is not easy to get rid of it. So how can we deal with it? Let's take a look below!
Types:
1. Muscular Type: People with muscular type usually enjoy sports, love eating meat, have well-defined muscle lines, and their thighs feel hard when pressed or squeezed.
2. Fatty Type: Soft and flabby flesh, no obvious muscle feeling when the thighs are squeezed or pressed. They generally love eating meat, sweets, snacks, and do not like exercise. Some may already have stretch marks on their bodies.
3. Edematous Type: People with edematous type love drinking water, have reduced urine output, and wake up with a swollen face in the morning. The difference in leg circumference from morning to night is significant, especially in the calves. When pressing on the legs, white marks can be seen, which take a long time to fade. They tend to have a strong preference for salty and spicy foods.
This method is particularly suitable for fat calves. Many women with thick and strong calves often mistakenly think they have muscular calves, but in fact, it is a combination of fat and muscle. Pinch your calves, and wherever you can pinch, it is fat that can be reduced using this method. (Assuming you are healthy and do not have any inflammation or skin damage)
Tools: A lubricating oil (olive oil, essential oil, scraping oil, baby oil, etc.) and a gua sha board.
Where to buy a gua sha board: You can buy it online, at a pharmacy, or at a local store. The price ranges from 5 to 30 yuan. (If you can't find a gua sha board, you can use a household spoon, a ceramic rod, or the back of a wooden comb as a substitute, as long as the edges are smooth and won't scratch your skin.)
Method:
First, apply a lubricating oil to your legs and sit on a bed or sofa with your legs naturally bent, so that your calves are in a relaxed state. Then, scrape from the knee to the heel with the gua sha board for 20 minutes every day (or 100 times on each leg).
1. Direction: Start from the bend of the knee and scrape downwards. Each time, only scrape in one direction, do not scrape back and forth like scrubbing. (If you have varicose veins or edema in your lower limbs, you must scrape from bottom to top to improve blood circulation. Otherwise, the opposite direction will worsen the condition. If you don't have these conditions, both directions are fine, but scraping from bottom to top is better, as it helps relax tired legs and improve blood circulation.)
2. Strength: You must scrape with relatively strong and fast strokes! (Of course, the harder the better, within your own tolerance. As long as you persist in scraping, you will see results.)
3. The angle between the board and the calf should be 40-60%, while the angle between the board and the thigh should be obtuse.
