The human body is a magnificent thing. It has adapted over hundreds of thousands of years to the surroundings around us. The body has continued to bloom throughout heat and cold, dark and light and feast and famine. It is this last set of conditions that is most important to individuals trying to slim down via exercise and weight loss.
Why? The body has learned to hoard energy in periods of famine. While food consumption drops, the body doesn’t know, and does not mind, if you’re on a diet or just unable to find enough food. To the body, a sustained fall in calories means one thing – it’s survival time, baby!
Under these conditions, the body begins to hoard body fat as sort of an insurance policy against the coming hard times. If the decreased calorie intake means anything needs to go weight-wise, the body sure is not giving up that insurance. No way. In its place, the body will begin to sacrifice healthy muscle tissue. Consequently, using the majority fad and/or crash diets, it is not fat that’s being lost, it is healthy tissue.
As soon as food consumption increases, and it always will using these yo-yo diet programs, the body happily starts regaining every part of that lost muscle tissue and, you guessed it, all the weight lost goes right back on. That’s why exercise and weight loss need to become partners in any successful long-term weight loss program.
Exercise plus weight loss work hand in hand with the body’s own evolutionary adaptations to make sure successful and healthy weight loss. Regular exercise raises the body’s metabolism, as a result that calories are burned more effectively. This raise in metabolism, in turn, sends a apparent point to the body that any reduction in food intake is not grounds for alarm. The body in its place correctly attributes the fall in calories to the increased activity brought on by frequent exercise.
Under these conditions, the body doesn’t store fat like a miser. Instead, it burns body fat like there’s no tomorrow in an attempt to keep up with the demand for energy. The result is naturally effective weight loss. The weight comes off and stays off. This is why exercise and weight loss become the solution to successful dieting.
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