Many people believe that if they start exercising they will become hungrier and tend to eat more and fear that they will put on weigt due to the fact that they will be consuming more food.
What they don't realize is the fact that your blood sugar levels determine when you feel hungry. When your blood sugar drops you will begin to feel hungry and seek food to increase the level again.
Exercising helps to normalize fluctuations in your blood sugar levels and in doing so you won't get that starving feeling as often.
Exercise activates your muscles which in turn burns fat rather than carbohydrates so this reduction in the burning of carbohydrates maintains your blood sugar levels in a more balanced manner.
By raising your metabolic rate from exercise the cells of your body will burn oxygen more efficiently and that in turn helps you to use the nutrients from your diet more effectively. It also helps to eliminate waste products and in doing so you are getting better nourishment from the foods that you eat.
By getting more nourishment you don't require the same quantities of food to feel fulfilled.
Another benefit of exercise is the fact that you are increasing your body temperature and this will help to mobilize the fat in your body that is used for energy rather than the food. Your resting basal metabolic rate will also be raised after exercise for a considerable amount of time effectively helping you to burn more fat and improving the ratio of body fat percentage in your body.
There are so many positive reasons why you should be including some form of exercise into any weigt-loss program and even if you are reluctant to exercise you should understand that it is probably easier to increase the exercise than to reduce the amount of food that you feel like eating every hour of the day.
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Your Fat Point
Many people have long held the mistaken belief that everybody has a particular fat point where their body realizes that this is the level of fat that is normal to that particular person.
This is not true and we all develop our own fat point based on our lifestyles.
While there are various different body types that are determined by our genes the percentage of fat that we carry around in our body is not due to the genes that we have inherited. It is due to the food that we have been eating from the beginning of our life to the stage where we are at presently.
If you have been over eating for a long period of time and you have remained at a specific fat percentage for quite some time then that becomes your new fat point. And that can change up or down according to the lifestyle that you choose to lead.
If you have remained at a particular fat point for a year or two then your body will develop all the necessary requirements in the form of capillaries, connective tissues, hormonal levels and so on to support that point.
You have determined what that point is and your body will now try to maintain the new level.
Your body will constantly monitor that new fat point by all the messages that are sent to the brain. If you are to go on a crash diet your body will react to the fact that it sees an attack on that fat point and will do all it can to maintain what it believes is the correct balance. The maintenance can be in the form of a reduction in muscle tissue to save fat.
Unfortunately for many people they don't like to accept the fact that it is not their genes or anything else that has resulted in their fat point being too high.
This is not true and we all develop our own fat point based on our lifestyles.
While there are various different body types that are determined by our genes the percentage of fat that we carry around in our body is not due to the genes that we have inherited. It is due to the food that we have been eating from the beginning of our life to the stage where we are at presently.
If you have been over eating for a long period of time and you have remained at a specific fat percentage for quite some time then that becomes your new fat point. And that can change up or down according to the lifestyle that you choose to lead.
If you have remained at a particular fat point for a year or two then your body will develop all the necessary requirements in the form of capillaries, connective tissues, hormonal levels and so on to support that point.
You have determined what that point is and your body will now try to maintain the new level.
Your body will constantly monitor that new fat point by all the messages that are sent to the brain. If you are to go on a crash diet your body will react to the fact that it sees an attack on that fat point and will do all it can to maintain what it believes is the correct balance. The maintenance can be in the form of a reduction in muscle tissue to save fat.
Unfortunately for many people they don't like to accept the fact that it is not their genes or anything else that has resulted in their fat point being too high.
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Everything In Moderation
How many times have you heard that statement? The best results are always when anything is done in moderation. You gain body fat because you weren't eating or drinking in moderation so in order to reverse that situation you also need to plan your weigt loss programs so that eating or exercising that is involved with that program is also done in moderation.
Excessive exercising for somebody who hasn't done much in the past can result in injury and that injury can make you less mobile and increase the opportunity to gain body fat.
Sudden changes in diet will send the body into reactionary mode storing fat. Gradual changes to your diet on the other hand done in moderation will not send signals to the body that is a starving and in fact you won't feel as though you are starving either if you do it in moderation.
Making moderate changes to your food and exercise won't infringe on your lifestyle anywhere near as much and that will in effect make it a lot easier for you to maintain the changes for a lot longer until they become second nature.
This is when you will get to the stage where you can gradually keep reducing the body fat and become healthier and healthier and more energetic as time goes on.
Even your intake or water has to be in moderation because drinking excessive water can flush out important nutrients from your system doing more harm than good.
You are better drinking a glass of water here and there throughout the day rather than trying to drink gallons of water in the hope that it will help you to lose weigt faster.
Even good foods need to be eaten in moderation as excessive quantities of these foods can still cause the body to store them as fat.
It's a simple rule to follow really; if you are eating drinking or exercising too much or too little you are unlikely to get optimum results.
Excessive exercising for somebody who hasn't done much in the past can result in injury and that injury can make you less mobile and increase the opportunity to gain body fat.
Sudden changes in diet will send the body into reactionary mode storing fat. Gradual changes to your diet on the other hand done in moderation will not send signals to the body that is a starving and in fact you won't feel as though you are starving either if you do it in moderation.
Making moderate changes to your food and exercise won't infringe on your lifestyle anywhere near as much and that will in effect make it a lot easier for you to maintain the changes for a lot longer until they become second nature.
This is when you will get to the stage where you can gradually keep reducing the body fat and become healthier and healthier and more energetic as time goes on.
Even your intake or water has to be in moderation because drinking excessive water can flush out important nutrients from your system doing more harm than good.
You are better drinking a glass of water here and there throughout the day rather than trying to drink gallons of water in the hope that it will help you to lose weigt faster.
Even good foods need to be eaten in moderation as excessive quantities of these foods can still cause the body to store them as fat.
It's a simple rule to follow really; if you are eating drinking or exercising too much or too little you are unlikely to get optimum results.
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
What You Can Expect
If you've been on any diets or weigt loss programs in the past then consider the results that you got from them because that is what you can expect if you go on the same diet again.
You need to look not only at the diet itself, the time that you were on it and whether you lost weigt or not, but also the period after you stopped dieting and consider how fast you put the weigt back on because very often that weigt gain after dieting was a result of the diet itself.
If you are considering another attempt at that diet where you lost a lot of weigt quite rapidly, it will be worthwhile to look a little further and see what the final outcome was over the medium to long term as that might paint a different picture and change your opinion on the effectiveness of the diet.
It might be time for you to consider an alternative way of losing weigt or to be more precise losing fat because that is the most important thing that you should be looking at.
Consider using a weigt-loss program that reduces the fat gradually and is easy to maintain while you go about your normal day-to-day life. You might think that it will take longer to lose the weigt but what you really should be focusing on is getting to an optimum body shape and staying there for the rest of your life.
It is not much use to you to lose weigt for a few months and put it on for the next few months and then repeat the cycle over and over again.
This is all that you can expect to get if that's all that you got in the past and in fact it only becomes more difficult to lose weigt and easier to put it back on so keep that thought in your mind before you embark on another weigt-loss program
You need to look not only at the diet itself, the time that you were on it and whether you lost weigt or not, but also the period after you stopped dieting and consider how fast you put the weigt back on because very often that weigt gain after dieting was a result of the diet itself.
If you are considering another attempt at that diet where you lost a lot of weigt quite rapidly, it will be worthwhile to look a little further and see what the final outcome was over the medium to long term as that might paint a different picture and change your opinion on the effectiveness of the diet.
It might be time for you to consider an alternative way of losing weigt or to be more precise losing fat because that is the most important thing that you should be looking at.
Consider using a weigt-loss program that reduces the fat gradually and is easy to maintain while you go about your normal day-to-day life. You might think that it will take longer to lose the weigt but what you really should be focusing on is getting to an optimum body shape and staying there for the rest of your life.
It is not much use to you to lose weigt for a few months and put it on for the next few months and then repeat the cycle over and over again.
This is all that you can expect to get if that's all that you got in the past and in fact it only becomes more difficult to lose weigt and easier to put it back on so keep that thought in your mind before you embark on another weigt-loss program
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