Exercise or Diet ? The Key to Weight Loss

Even taking a regular walk is of great value

If you are looking to lose weight and feel more energetic, then exercise is a good start. However, no matter how much you exercise, if you are not looking closely at your diet, then you’ll be struggling to lose weight.

By eating healthy foods in reasonable quantities and exercising regularly to maintain good health, your body will naturally find a healthy weight.

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For your time to be effective, you need to look at the fuel that you are running your body on. The wrong fuel can sometimes produce the wrong results. Our bodies run on the blood sugar (glucose) circulating in our bloodstream.

By exercising we deplete the supply of blood sugar, hormones are released that instruct our fat cells to release fat into our bloodstream. This fat then circulates to the muscles that need it for fuel, and we end up with less fat on our bodies.

Regular exercise has a number of benefits:

· You’ll lose weight more effectively, and becoming more successful at keeping it off.
· A mental attitude of self-esteem and self-care that boosts your confidence
· Significant health benefits that include reduced risk for heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis and diabetes
· helps to reduce stress, anxiety and depression, which can be brought on by dieting itself, and can lead to overeating

Dietary changes tend to have more of an impact on weight loss because it’s relatively easy to reduce calories through improvements to your diet, while it takes a lot of exercise to burn off an equal number of calories