Do you gain weight even if you eat little?

- May 18, 2016

Do you gain weight even if you eat little?

[6 reasons why you gain weight even if you do not eat much food]

You may gain weigh even if you eat little and exercise. Let’s find about the summarized reasons depending on research data.

Lack of Sleep

The shorter the sleep time may increase the obesity approved from several research results. There are two reasons for gaining weight when lack of sleep. One is that if you stay up late, you get to eat late supper which increase the calories. Scientifically fat elimination hormone, raeptin reduces and ghrelin hormone increase, which makes the feeling of hunger. As a result, fat cannot be decomposed but feeling hungry at the same time.

Hypothyroidism

When thyroid is unable to function itself, thyroid hormone does not secrete enough and can easily feel tired and metabolism get slower which is easier to gain weight.

Stress

When stressed the body goes into survival mode in order to survive. US researchers at Yale announced that as cortisol stress hormone that promotes, it increase the appetite, and accumulates fat on abdomen. People with lot of stress have much more fat on thigh and abdomen fat with higher cortisol concentrations.

Polycystic ovary syndrome

Polycystic ovary syndrome is a hormonal disorder that can occur to women of childbearing age. It is disease which small cyst grows in the ovary. When the disease occurs, insulin action can be hindered to cause weight gain. In particular, the weight gaining focuses to the abdomen to increase the risk of heart disease.

Menopause

It is not only the hormonal changes that make gain weight for menopausal women. As age metabolism ability to consume and urns less calories due to changed lifestyle with no exercising. However, in some areas, menopause is related to weight gaining. When it comes to menopause, the fat accumulates around the waist than the hips or thighs.

Antidepressants

One of the side-effects of antidepressants is weight gaining. 25% of people who take antidepressants for long have experienced and suffer for much weight gain as side effect.