If you’re spending hours in the gym and not getting the weight loss results you want, perhaps your exercise routine is holding you back! Refocus your efforts on the Body Ecology Diet and a holistically active lifestyle. |
For years, we’ve been told that exercise is crucial to good health and weight maintenance. But all those hours at the gym may turn out to be more harmful than helpful.
If you’re stressing your body with intensive, daily exercise and still not loosing weight, maybe it’s the exercise itself that’s the problem.
Time magazine recently ran a story about how exercise – especially the long and intense variety – may actually cause us to consume more calories than we expend, therefore negating all that hard work on the stair master or treadmill.
Time concluded that, “In short, it's what you eat, not how hard you try to work it off, that matters more in losing weight. You should exercise to improve your health, but be warned: fiery spurts of vigorous exercise could lead to weight gain.”
As it turns out, eating healthily is actually a bigger contributor to overall fitness and weight management than exercise.
What’s So Bad About Exercise?
We’re not suggesting, of course, that all exercise is bad. In fact, a daily walk or bike ride and activities such as gardening and carrying groceries to your car are excellent ways to keep your muscles – including your heart – strong.
But too much exercise can stress out your body, cause injury, and ruin weight loss attempts.
The theory is that excessive exercise, such as using the elliptical machine for an hour every day, makes you voraciously hungry as your body fights to make up the calories it just burned.
After intense exercise, people often overeat, setting the stage for weight gain and a cycle of frustration.
The key is balance.
An active lifestyle is far more important to weight loss than labored work in the gym. Keeping an active lifestyle is as simple as taking the stairs instead of the elevator and playing outside with your children.
Find an activity that you love. How many of you truly love running on a treadmill every day? Pick an exercise that you enjoy doing, and you’ll be prone to pursue it often.
So, instead of peppering a sedentary lifestyle (driving to work, sitting at a desk, ordering take-out for dinner, and watching TV) with intense bursts of exercise at the gym, take small steps throughout your day to get up and move around.
Diet Plays a Bigger Role in Weight Loss Than Exercise
You’re probably aware of the weight loss mantra, “calories in versus calories out.” In many ways, this is an accurate statement, if not a bit oversimplified. We store extra calories as fat, and when we burn more than we consume, that’s when weight loss occurs.
But the debate continues over the best and most effective way to burn more than we consume.
A common misconception is that we can dramatically reduce the number of calories we consume by eating much less. But this method is not sustainable, and will only end up making you feel dissatisfied and prone to binges.
Instead, focus on the quality of foods you’re eating and how you’re eating them.
At Body Ecology, we stress foods and drinks that have a dual-purpose of satisfying your hunger and creating a healthy inner ecosystem, so that you can absorb more nutrients without having to consume more calories.
Here are some of our best weight loss tips:
If you are struggling to find energy or lose weight, you may be lacking important minerals. It’s much more difficult to sufficiently absorb nutrients AND lose weight when you are tired and your digestion is impaired. Ancient Earth Minerals can help “feed” your thyroid and adrenal glands so that your energy remains high and your spirits lifted! Try some Ancient Earth Minerals today. |
Hypothyroidism and hormone imbalance: http://www.womentowomen.com/hypothyroidism/hormonalimbalance.asp?id=1&campaignno=thyroid&adgroup=adgroup2thyroid&keywords=low+thyroid