Do I Have To Exercise To Lose Weight?
An understanding of fat burning exercise and nutrition are both vital to achieve and sustain permanent weight loss and fat reduction. But does diet or exercise help more to lose weight?? Nutritionists and physiologists did research to find the answer.
Weight Loss Studies
There have only been a few studies to establish whether fat burning nutrition or exercise has a bigger impact on fat burning. As few studies like this had been conducted, scientists followed them closely.
They studied people who moved from big cities to the suburbs, and the reverse, to determine the affect of the move on the weight of the subjects. The subjects in the cities and the suburbs had similar diet intakes. There was little that was unexpected in the findings.
Results From the Weight Loss Studies
- within the first year of moving from a city to the suburbs, the participants in the studies gained, on average, 15 pounds
- within the first six to eight months of moving to a city from the suburbs, the subjects in the studies lost an average of 15 pounds
The main conclusion of the studies was as follows: The subjects living in a city did more walking than the subjects living in the suburbs. Living in the suburbs often meant that the subjects had to drive, as opposed to walk, to perfrom many of their duties, while people in the city tend to walk more to carry out their responsibilies. This was the reason for the change in weight.
The professionals agree that if you want to lose weight, exercise will be a bigger factor than nutrition. To give you an idea of how diet and exercise each affect weight loss, it has been said that it is 65% – 35% in favor of exercise.
If you want to get rid of the excess weight and fat on your body, you will need to exercise as well as pay attention to nutrition. But we dont live in a perfect world and none of us are perfect.
What Does This Mean To You?
Can you burn fat and lose weight permanently if:
- you follow the right exercise routine, but do not change your diet?
- you follow a good weight loss diet, but dont exercise at all?
- you dont fully adhere to the dietary and exercise advice?
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