Exercise And Weight Loss: What Is Your Goal For The New Year?

Is this going to be the year for you to finally get a handle on weight or health issues?  I am really tired of magazine covers talking about six pack abs, and sexy butts when “truth be known”, there is more to the health and fitness story than meets the eye.  The hardest part is facing that same 10-20 pounds that you gain and lose every single year.  Why is this happening to us?

We like to eat, and it seems that exercise can’t entirely offset the damage done by our impromptu dieting and sedentary lifestyles.  Ultimately exercise, according to Rachel Giese. (Flare: Toronto: January 2011), is the smartest way to shed fat but the success of a workout shouldn’t be measured in numbers. 

What about exercise?  Experts tell us that we don’t push ourselves hard enough.   Fitness fads come and go but the need for regular workouts remain a constant.  The discouraging news is that while a moderate amount of exercise is good for you overall, it isn’t enough to actually make you lose weight.  You may have noticed that the number of minutes and the number of recommended times a week to workout are going up instead of down.  In order to shed pounds you have to work out longer and harder than you bargained for.  It all boils down to your bodies desire to conserve energy.  Your body wants you to hold on to a certain amount of fat and it compensates for your efforts by increasing your appetite.

It doesn’t surprise me to read that we overestimate how hard we are working out, and our delightful habit of rewarding ourselves for a hard workout with food puts us back to zero.  A half hour walk can be completely undone by a tall caramel macchiato.  Not fair.  Weight loss still comes down to using up more calories than you take in.

That doesn’t mean that you are genetically doomed to be plump.  There will always be room to change your body and your health, but the success should be measured by something other than numbers.  Improving your fitness is more than the numbers on the scale.  Any kind of movement is better than none at all.  Modest tweaks aren’t going to change your shape overnight but the health benefits kick in with that first step.  If you keep it up the benefits add up.  Your weight may not change but your body composition will.  Your metabolism will be faster and you will burn away that stored fat.  Don’t stop working out because you think you are doomed to failure.  Exercise is the key to being healthy and strong.  If you compare people who lose weight through dieting and those from working out, the exercisers will winds hands down.  The exercisers will lose fat, while the dieters lose muscle.  Forget about a dress size in single digits and focus on living longer and healthier.

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