{"id":808,"date":"2018-11-28T15:51:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T23:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.activeherb.com\/blog\/?p=808"},"modified":"2025-02-25T14:52:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T22:52:36","slug":"tcm-formulas-for-weight-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activeherb.com\/blog\/tcm-formulas-for-weight-management.html","title":{"rendered":"Manage Weight the Natural Herbal Way: Easier Than Counting Calories"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to all the late night infomercials, weight loss is super easy.<\/p>\n

All you have to do is this:<\/p>\n

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And if that doesn\u2019t work, give this a try:<\/p>\n

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But if weight loss were so easy, there wouldn\u2019t be a million and one solutions.<\/p>\n

Yes, it\u2019s true that TCM formulas for weight management support are just another of the many supplements sold on the market.<\/p>\n

The reason they work, though, is that because they correct internal balances.<\/p>\n

Weight Loss Strategies From a Western Perspective<\/h3>\n

How Chinese herbal weight loss formulas work will be discussed shortly.<\/p>\n

But first, let’s address an important distinction: in the west, weight loss focuses on just diet and exercise.<\/p>\n

Without doubt, what you eat and how much you\u2019re active are extremely important. But as you’ll see with traditional Chinese medicine theory, diet and exercise are not the only factors.<\/p>\n

Besides, if diet and exercise alone were enough to lose weight, there wouldn\u2019t be so many different types of diets.<\/div>\n

Besides, if diet and exercise alone were enough to lose weight, there wouldn’t be so many different types of diets. Many people fail with the western approach to dieting, in part, because diets are too difficult to stick with.<\/p>\n

Eat this, not that. Count your carbs. And your calories. Weigh your food. Skip meals. Eat only 500 calories twice a week. Track your food and activity with an app, etc.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing wrong with these strategies. The problem, however, is that these are all external fixes.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s no guarantee that they will work. Perhaps they will in the short-term; most of these weight loss “hacks” are unsustainable. Do you really think you\u2019ll go the rest of your life weighing “macros”(macronutrients: carbs, protein, fat) before each meal?<\/p>\n

Weight Management From a TCM Perspective<\/h3>\n

Eastern medicine also considers diet and lack of physical exercise co-factors in obesity and being overweight.<\/p>\n

But in contrast to promising weight loss with dubious devices like this:<\/p>\n