Youre relying on exercise alone to do the trick. Yes, exercising can help you lose weight (and it has so many other health benefits) because it helps you create that calorie deficit needs to drop body fat. But heres the truth: Exercise alone will not help you lose weight. For emphasis, Ill say it again. If you are relying on exercise alone to lose weight, you are fighting an uphill battle. Heres why. Exercise burns calories, but not as much as people think. When you consider how many calories you burn in a day, exercise burns very little. And it takes a lot of time and effort to burn even a few calories. A full hour of intense exercise may only burn 400-500 calories for a lot of people. On the flipside, its easy to eat hundreds or thousands of calories in even a few minutes. But it would take hours of exercise to offset those calories. If you are not changing your diet and reducing your calorie intake, exercise alone probably wont help you much. As they say, you cant out-train a bad diet. No amount of exercise can make up for a poor or high-calorie diet. Youve got to have both (calorie reduction through diet and exercise) for optimal weight-loss results. The Takeaway: The best way to lose weight is to cut back on what you eat and increase your burn through exercise—not one or the other.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 01:30:36 +0000
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