The “Exercise Difference” in Weight Loss

Weight loss! Everybody nowadays is trying ways and means to lose weight. There are so many weight loss plans and each plan has thousands of followers. But not everybody is successful. Majority of the people either fail in losing weight or even if they lose weight, they tend to regain weight after a couple of years. Although there are various sources for weight loss, Exercise is considered to be the best.

Exercise is not only good to lose weight, it is very important factor for a healthy body, so it is better for you to exercise daily even if you are not overweight, to remain fit and healthy forever.

A variety of weight loss pills are available in the market today. These pills can cause harmful side-effects. You should understand that the two important factors for weight loss are a balanced diet with consistent exercising.

Low carb diet reduces water and muscle weight, not fat:

Although low carb dieting causes weight loss, it is mainly water and muscle loss. The body takes energy from carbohydrates, and when you cut off carbohydrates from your diet, your body will turn to the glycogen stored in your muscles and liver, for energy. For each gram of glycogen you lose four grams of water. So as more and more glycogen is absorbed by the body, you will lose more water, resulting in weight loss. Also as you lose glycogen from the muscles, there will be muscle loss too. You have to lose fat from your body to achieve sufficient weight loss and this can be achieved only by EXERCISING.

Lose calories to lose weight:

To reduce weight, you have to lose calories. Normally loosing 500 calories per day is healthy. This is, 3500 calories per week or one pound. If you want to lose two pounds, you have to lose 1000 calories per day. For this you have to either reduce your calories intake or burn more calories. Reducing calorie intake is not advisable, because you should consume minimum 1200-1500 calories per day. So the next alternative is increasing your calorie expenditure or burning more calories. How? Through physical activities or exercises!

Now let’s see how you can increase your calorie expenditure:

If you have been walking for 30 minutes everyday, you can increase your time to 60 minutes. Increasing your minutes of walking will boost up you basal metabolic rate and make your body burn more calories, even when you are sleeping.

When you restrict your calorie intake, lack of exercising leads to weakening of the muscle tissues, which makes your muscles flabby, reduces the metabolism level and also makes you feel tired and weak.

There are lots of exercises for weight loss, but whatever you do, you should sweat. Aerobic exercises like walking, running, jogging, swimming, cycling, treadmill etc. increases oxygen flow in your body, improves the functions of the heart, increases the metabolism rate and helps you to reduce. Strength training exercises strengthen your muscles and increases your muscle mass, making your body burn more calories, for 24 hours after your exercises.

So exercise consistently and you can stop worrying about your weight problem.

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