Losing weight the healthy way - regular exercise

You spent a lot of time trying to be good with eating right and it got you this far. You have made a lot of healthy changes in your life but your weight loss has dwindled. Are you exercising regularly? If you are like then you probably mean to exercise – to wake up earlier and get in 30 minutes on the treadmill. Sure – it happens once or twice then the majesty sort of just falls away and you forget – and you make excuses.

Why do we exercise in the first place? It is not always to burn just those 100 or so calories you get rid of every mile you walk. Exercise actually does that much more. Your metabolic rate is increased and, as such, you will burn those calories much faster. Studies also show that following an exercise program, when you are at rest, you continue to burn calories at an increased rate.

Exercising aids you in preventing the body from entering into starvation mode or can create a hibernation response. Many people begin low-calorie diets because they have found that their metabolic rate is lowered and when that happens your body hordes energy. Exercising will make your body resist moving into that condition.

Gaining muscle mass is a nice side effect for those who exercise on a regular basis. This is a lot better than the alternative. For those who only diet and not exercise are usually faced losing lean tissue of about 20%. On the other hand, those people who exercise regularly while maintaining a low-calorie diet will actually gain weight in the form of lean tissue and lose body fat. Lean tissue is essential in the metabolization process of losing fat. Dieting without exercise means less lean tissue in which to burn at and you will soon plateau and stop losing weight.

Regularly exercising has a wonderfully positive effect on your body chemistry. Untrained subjects that participated in endurance-type exercise for several months develop an increased amount of fat-burning enzymes.

Most heavy people produce excessive insulin within their body tissues. Insulin in excessive amounts that is found in body tissues, unused by the cells, can cause you to store more fat. Exercising helps the cells of the body to use insulin and reducing he need for more insulin.

There is no evidence at this point in time that proves that exercise is a successful tool for appetite control. There are some studies showing that obese people seem to experience suppression of appetite through some exercises.

A researcher campus in lrvine studied both obese men and women for the purpose of seeing if exercise alone was effective in helping people lose weight. They worked with 34 obese men and women that were put down and de-moralized after many years of attempting to lose weight. They were told to start a daily walking regimen and to gradually work to increase time and distance.

This group did not seem to accomplish anything until they worked up to 30 minutes a day at which time they started to lose weight and at the end of the year each of 11 patients who remained with the program had lost a significant amount of weight with an average weight loss of 22 pounds seeing the most successful weight loss being 38 pounds and the least successful at 10 pounds.