Lose Weight by First Organizing Your Room! Expert Reveals That Cluttered Rooms Can Lead to 'Excess Fat Accumulation'
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Written by / Huang Hui Ru
Changing your life starts with changing your home, and let's be honest, wanting to lose weight is more influenced by your environment than you think. The environment is full of tempting, high-calorie foods, which is a key factor in overeating.
Obesity and Neuroscientist Stephan J. Guyenet points out in his book 'Mindless Eating' that we repeatedly overeat in our daily lives, and most people's weight gradually increases, and body fat also gradually rises. Because we control satiety hormones, such as leptin, and we repeatedly overeat, which repeatedly secretes, leading to resistance and inability to function normally. The method to counter this is to change the environment, tidy up your home, and move those high-calorie snacks out of sight.
After her mother's death, Phyllis inherited a large number of belongings. She not only struggled to maintain gratitude but also collapsed in despair because her mother, with a wide range of interests, from mountains, medicine, life, relationships, divination, and weaving to cooking, carving, dyeing, and hand-painting, accumulated countless books, tools, and materials. To tidy up her mother's belongings, the house became bigger and bigger, and her mortgage became heavier and heavier.
But she kept struggling. If she cleared her mother's belongings, would she erase her mother's trace? Until the phrase 'weed out the essence' sounded in her mind. She finally made a determined decision to get rid of everything she didn't need, carefully examining and choosing each item, which made her reborn. Because the clutter decreased, Phyllis was able to move from a large house to a small apartment, and she even lost eight kilograms. From life to physique, she became lighter.
When the environment is dirty, it will directly produce garbage inside the body and form fat. (Image / Unsplash)
I interviewed Phyllis at her home, and she told me, 'The space we are in is always in the past and future, and not in the present.' For example, some people will immediately buy healthy foods or meal replacements when they see the prospect of a good figure, because they always don't satisfy their body shape and expect 'a good figure in the future.' Some people still keep their university accounting textbooks (yes, I have seen them in a friend's house), because they feel they didn't use their university accounting well, and one day they want to review it. These words struck me deeply.
After the interview, I immediately opened the filing cabinet under my desk and threw away over five years of material that I thought was valuable and would be used in the future. I also threw away the souvenir tickets and paper from my first solo trip when I was in my twenties. Some people thought it was a pity. But for me, life is always moving forward, and there will be many unforgettable trips later on, accumulating experience and memories, rather than accumulating travel souvenirs.
According to Peter Walsh, author of 'The Secret Room of Skinny', becauseWhen our rooms, kitchens, and restaurants become cluttered, it will directly produce garbage inside our bodies and form fat, and it also erodes our ability to have a rich and healthy life. He said that clutter and obesity are the same thing; they are all about 'I see this thing,' 'I want this thing,' 'I will get this thing.' The body is filled with excessive waste of fats and sugars, and the room is also cluttered due to excessive clutter, which cannot be digested. But we can't control it, we keep shopping, and we continue to indulge in our appetites.
To lose weight, start by tidying up your environment. (Image / Taken from Free Pants Pixabay)
This doesn't mean your house is messy, it means your habits determine the life you want. Do you want bills and letters piled up on the table, and you don't want to tidy up, so you often eat takeout with your phone, or don't have a healthy and delicious dinner, allowing you to sit at the table to listen to music and eat dinner?
Do you want clothes to pile up like a mountain, but you can't find clothes to wear every morning, or you find the clothes and accessories that you can wear the next day from the wardrobe the night before? Do you want the refrigerator to be full of last year's zongzi and rotten vegetables? Or do you easily find fresh vegetables to cook?
Organize your thoughts, organize your home, organize your relationship with food, and imagine the life you want, identify priority order, if the room can thin, you can thin. If you have tried many organizational and storage methods, your home is still messy, you need to do this first.
This article is excerpted from / Huang Hui Ru (former health editor) / World Culture Publishing
