The key to weight control is to maintain food intake and energy expenditure (physical activity) in balance. In fact, when you eat only the calories your body needs, weight generally remains constant, but if you eat more calories than your body needs, this will represent an excess of fat and, conversely, if the person consumes more energy than you eat, burn excess fat.
Exercise plays an important role in weight control by increasing energy expenditure. Recent studies show that exercise not only increases metabolism during a workout, but does keep your metabolism elevated for a period of time after exercise, allowing a person to burn more calories.
The volume of exercise needed to make a difference in your weight depends on the amount and type of activity and how much you eat. Aerobic exercise burns body fat. A medium-sized adult person would have to walk more than 48 kilometers (30 miles) to burn 3,500 calories, the equivalent of a pound of fat, although this may seem too much, you have to walk the 48 miles all at once. Indeed, walk a mile (a mile) daily for 30 days will achieve the same results as long as the person does not increase food intake to negate the effects of this activity.
If you eat 100 calories a day more than the body needs, you will gain 10 pounds (4.50 kg) per year, but that weight can be eliminated or avoided by doing 30 minutes of moderate exercise daily. The combination of exercise and diet offers the most flexible and effective method of weight control.
Since muscle tissue weighs more than fat, and exercise helps to build muscle to some degree, the bathroom scale will not necessarily tell the person whether or not “fat.” Individuals with good muscle mass and fat invariably have relatively little “overweight” according to standard weight tables. If the person is undertaking a program of strength training, your muscles will increase in weight and may increase the overall weight. Therefore, body composition is a better indicator of the status of the person your same body weight.
The lack of physical activity causes muscles to become soft, if not decrease food intake, body weight is almost always added fat. People who were once active and continue to eat as they always did after adopting a sedentary lifestyle tend to suffer from “progressive obesity.
Making a Commitment
The decision to keep fit requires a lifelong commitment regarding time and effort. Exercising and eating right must become one of those things done without question, like bathing and brushing teeth, and will not succeed if you are convinced about the benefits.
Patience is essential. Do not try to do too much too soon and do not quit before having the opportunity to experience the rewards. You can not win again in a few days or weeks what you have lost in years of sedentary living, but with perseverance you can get fit again. Do not forget that the prize is worth it the price.
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