Exercise To Start Eating Healthy
Any diet for losing weight comes down to the time-proven formula for losing weight. The objective of the formula is simple – create a daily deficit of calories instead of an excess of calories. How much calorie deficit you should create each day should be something safe and, depending upon your general health and obesity level, discussed with your doctor.
As an example, let’s say that you figure your daily calorie intake and it is approximately 2800 calories a day. This means your monthly calorie intake is approximately 84,000 calories. To lose one pound a month, you would need to reduce your calorie intake for the month by 3500 – this is the calorie deficit required to lose one pound of weight. So, if you wanted to lose two pounds a month, you would need to reduce your monthly calorie intake by 7000 and so on.
Translate this into daily goals and weight loss starts to become something you can achieve. To lose two pounds a month would mean losing 7000/30 equals a deficit of 233 calories a day. The best way to achieve this is through consistent reduction in the amount of calories you are consuming on a daily basis and this is where exercise can help you maintain better eating habits.
Wait a minute, you might say. Isn’t the purpose of exercise to burn calories? What is all this about exercise helping you to eat better? It’s simple. If you view exercise solely as the means to burn calories to achieve your daily calorie deficit, you have a greater chance of weight loss failure. Eating one fast food hamburger can wipe out in 2 minutes the 30 minutes of sweating and grunting and breathing heavy that you did earlier on a stationary bike.
The best way to maintain a daily calorie deficit to lose weight is not to think you are going to burn it off; rather, think that you are not going to consume the excess. Does this mean that exercise is out? By no means is exercise out. Instead, start thinking of exercise as the way to help you consume less calories.
If you are not exercising and the temptation to eat that candy bar or loaded hot dog is before you, you are much more likely to eat it and think you are going to make up for it later during the day. However, if you have spent 30 minutes on the treadmill to burn 150 calories, you will be much more likely to resist the temptation to eat something that will wipe that out in a minute. When you work to burn an amount of calories every day, the taste of that unhealthy treat is less pleasurable or worth it. Instead of a chocolate shake, you are more likely to reach for that apple or carrot sitting on your kitchen vegetable rack. Exercising can also help to compound the benefits of juicing and other weight loss and healthy eating techniques.
So, keep exercising but change your view of it from burning to helping you not consume. The end result will be a slimmer you.
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