Is the fear of weight gain stopping you from taking a nascency command pill?

Some women volition risk an unwanted pregnancy for fright of gaining weight from using birth control pills.

"Weight gain from the Pill is not proven," says Dr. Kimberly Langdon, MD, senior ob/gyn and medical counselor at Medzino Health.

"There are some types of pills that make a adult female decumbent to circadian weight gain every bit a effect of fluid retentiveness or an increase in appetite," continues Dr. Langdon.

Just there is nil chemical nigh a nativity control pill itself that directly causes a gain in body fat.

"Estrogen is almost often to arraign for water memory and increased ambition," says Dr. Langdon.

"The problem with blaming the Pill for weight proceeds is that women who take the Pill are often still growing to adulthood. Stable weights are non obtainable until the age of 25 approximately."

Preventing Weight Proceeds from Nativity Command Use

Information technology's crucial to take the right pill.

"Formulations of oral contraceptives can be changed to lower androgenicity (male hormone effects) and progesterone, both of which can impact appetite and weight proceeds," says Dr. Langdon.

"There are depression dose formulations and some that take synthetic progesterone only, which may reduce the risk of weight gain.

"For instance, desogestrel and norgestimate are low in androgenicity, resulting in less weight gain or no weight gain, whereas, levonorgestrel and norethindrone are higher in androgenicity and tin increase appetite and weight proceeds."

Raising Resting Metabolism though HIIT

HIIT stands for high intensity interval training. But two sessions per week tin can help ward off weight proceeds from eating more than than usual – assuming that the "more than than usual" isn't off the deep stop.

HIIT consists of very intense, but very brief, intervals of exercise – alternating with a few minutes of easy-paced recovery.

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An case would be pedaling as hard as you can on a stationary bike for thirty seconds (difficult plenty and so that you actually tin barely make information technology to 30 seconds), and so pedaling easy at very light tension for 90 seconds to two minutes.

8 HIIT "cycles" are all it takes to consummate i session. The fashion of exercise tin be flights of stairs, an elliptical machine, a treadmill (don't hold on), bound rope or running outdoors.

Some other mode is floor movements such as squat jumps, regular jumps, lunge jumps and box jumps.

To further forestall weight gain from using birth control pills, you should accept upward forcefulness grooming – even if you're yet in loftier school.

Dr. Langdon, who is at present retired from clinical do, has delivered over 2,000 babies. Besides obstetrics, she specialized in gynecologic situations such every bit menstrual disorders, vaginitis, menopause, contraception, pelvic pain and minimally-invasive surgeries.
Lorra Garrick is a former personal trainer certified by the American Council on Exercise. At Bally Total Fitness she trained clients of all ages for fat loss, muscle building, fitness and improved health.

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