The healthiest way to lose weight is neither a crash diets nor a burst of exercise.
The healthiest way to lose weight is neither a crash diets nor a burst of exercise. The body likes slow changes in terms of food and exercise.
Take this for example, someone who has not exercised for years shouldn’t go rushing into running miles a day or pounding the treadmill. Not only will the struggle to do this leave you feeling disheartened and demotivated, but you’re also far more likely to injure yourself and set your fitness levels back even further.
The same also goes for those people who suddenly start starving themselves. Diets that severely restrict calories or the types of food ‘allowed’ can also lead you to be deficient in the nutrients and vitamins that your body needs.
If you need to lose weight, what should you do?
Everybody knows that your body uses food for energy. It stores any excess energy as fat. This simply means if you eat more food than your body needs for daily activities and cell maintenance, then you’ll gain weight.
So, to lose weight, you need to get your body to use up these stores of fat. The most effective way to do this is to:
- reduce the amount of calories you eat
- Increase your levels of activity.
Small changes can make the biggest difference. Did you know that one extra biscuit a week can lead you to gain up to 5lb a year – cut that biscuit out of your diet and you will lose the same amount.
Someone who increases the amount that they exercise, but maintains the same diet and calorie intake, will almost certainly lose weight.
It doesn’t matter if you hate gyms – light exercise, such as a short 30 minute walk, will be beneficial if done most days of the week.
Also, every single time you exercise more than usual, you burn calories and fat which can only be a good thing.
January 12 2011 02:12 pm | lose weight