How does weight loss work?

Weight loss works based on “calories in, calories out”, i.e., you need to be burning more calories than you take in through your daily food intake. The key to managing your weight successfully is in ensuring that the calories that you consume do not exceed the calories that you use. There are also other factors to consider such as your age, body type and metabolism, on top of lifestyle factors such as your daily habits that all come into play into weight gain or loss.

What is the best weight loss treatment?

There are plenty of weight loss treatments available, but TCM slimming is one of the safest and best ways to lose weight. Our Divine Slim TM weight loss program encourages steady weight loss for effective and sustainable weight management. As compared to fad diets (diets that eliminate 1 or more food groups) that leave you feeling hungry and lethargic, or having to rely on machines to see results, our methods are backed by sound TCM principles that focus on facilitating your weight loss goals as well as cater to your overall health needs.

How does TCM help me lose weight?

Following the perspective that excessive weight gain is a symptom of a greater underlying health problem that needs to be addressed, TCM believes that excessive weight gain is due to a Qi deficiency in the spleen, resulting in a slow metabolism, water retention and weight gain. Using Guasha, a form of treatment used in the practice of TCM, special apparatus is used to attain preventive or therapeutic slimming effects. Not only does the treatment regulate blood circulation and detoxify the body, but it also improves your metabolism and digestion for slimming effects. No need for painful surgery, unnecessary machines or intensive diets!

Why should I choose TCM slimming over other weight loss methods?

TCM slimming focuses on returning your body to a balanced, healthy state – so, you can look forward to not only looking good but also feeling good about yourself! Although our weight loss program will help you achieve results, it is important to stay committed to investing in your overall health by paying close attention to your diet and exercise, both during the treatment and post-treatment. Our weight loss treatments are conducted by trained staff that does most of the work for you, so you can look forward to a relaxing treatment.

Who can benefit from TCM slimming treatment?

Both men and women are suitable for our signature Divine Slim TM program.

Lose Weight By Boosting Your Metabolic Rate During COVID19

Lose Weight By Boosting Your Metabolic Rate During COVID19

April 17, 2020

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As one of the key components to effective weight loss, maintaining a high metabolism is ideal. Metabolism is essentially a set of chemical reactions that has three main purposes: the break down of food into energy to supplement cellular processes, the conversion of food to set the foundation for production and the elimination of nitrogenous waste.

In the case of weight loss, your metabolic rate thus dictates how fast and effective your foods are broken down. The higher the rate, the more compounds you’d be breaking down. These compounds can be carbohydrates, glucose, fatty acids and more. Unfortunately, age predetermines the state of your metabolic rate and the older you get, the slower it becomes. Women, especially, get the shorter end of the stick due to menopause and the drop in estrogen.

Whilst it is an inevitable drop, we’ve gathered a few tips and tricks to ensure that the decline is not a drastic one. Consider incorporating these tips to maintain your metabolic rate.

1. Importance Of Protein

One surprising method to increase your metabolism is to, in fact, eat more! That is, to eat more of thermogenic foods. These foods give rise to something called the thermic effect of food (TEF) – energy that is required to digest, absorb and metabolise food. Naturally, when you consume large amounts of thermic foods, you’d be digesting, absorbing and breaking down food at a relatively more effective pace. This process will even take place whilst you’re resting.

One of the foods that cause a significant rise in TEF is protein. In fact, it increases your metabolic rate by 15-30%, 3 and 10 times more than carbohydrates and fats respectively. Furthermore, eating more protein will ensure there’d be less muscle loss. After all, you’re aiming to lose fat, not muscles.

2. Take Care Of Your Muscles

On that note, be sure to take care and maintain muscle mass. Unfortunately, as we age, our muscle tissues tend to weaken. This will definitely affect your ability to do physical exercise, much less any strenuous activities. However, there is still time to train and strengthen your body and slow down the loss of muscle mass.

Your metabolic rate also has a close relationship with your muscle mass! Exercise not only increases your metabolic rate for hours after the physical activity, but it also increases your resting metabolic rate! Thus, it’d be challenging to engage in an effective exercise routine if you didn’t build enough muscle mass. Besides, muscle tissues actually burn more calories – even more than fat – so all the more!

3. Sleep Is a Friend

We’ve gone over how sleep is crucial in bodily function and weight loss. Studies have shown that sleep deprivation will alter glucose metabolism and hormones. Ghrelin is the hormone that increases appetite and reduces energy expenditure, which translates to an increase in energy stored in your body.

Metabolism and weight loss have a close relationship and if you wish to have an effective weight loss journey, you may want to capitalise and boosting your metabolism rate. Otherwise, you can look into getting a slimming treatment, so that your body has fewer compounds to break down and digest, translating to a shorter time to reach your goal! Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be closed till 4^th May 2020. We look forward to improve both your health and weight loss once the situation gets better!