If you are looking for a fun way to lose weight, then nothing can beat pleasures that entail in having sex.Women can burn as much as 88 calories having a mere 25 minutes of sex. Sex is a workout for the entire body. No wonder we find newly married couples shedding a lot of weight immediately after their marriage.
Sex can help keep you in shape in the ways mentioned below:
- Calorie Burner-Sex can burn as many calories as you do when you exercise in a gym. You can calculate the average amount of calories burnt in sex by multiplying 3.5(calories) per minute of the act of sex.
- Curbs appetite for fatty and hi carb foods-Sex is a great stress buster. As a matter of fact it helps in reducing the high anxiety hormone called cortisol in your body in check. High levels of cortisol in the body usually results in binging on food high in fat and carbohydrates.
- Helps you sleep-Lack of sleep doesn’t allow the body to shed fat. Apart from letting you catch some sleep, sex before bedtime releases the hormone oxytocin that lets you sleep well and help increase the fat lost while dieting.
- Endorphin’s released –Sex makes you feel on top of the world, because of the endorphin’s released. It makes you happier and thereby encouraging you to maintain the act of sex regularly. Now that you know you have noticed the fact that it helps you maintain your weight, you will turn to it to maintain the benefits you have started enjoying of having sex.
So don’t fret if you’ve missed your gym session today. Just get in between those sheets with your partner.
Written by :Rasha Ashraf