You will NOT LOSE TONS of weight by only exercising. 03-20-2019
Source: American Council on Exercise (ACE)
For the past three decades, experts have accepted as gospel that exercise is the key to weight loss. People believed that because it did burn calories and motivated people to eat more healthfully and reinforced a feeling of well-being/moral self-satisfaction.
However, over the past 10-20 years, after many studies and a lot of research, we’ve learned that exercise alone—-while it has numerous health benefits—-doesn’t affect weight loss tremendously. There are no long-term studies showing that exercise without changes in diet will cause substantial weight loss.
We still do not understand the physiological basis for obesity very well. The treatment of obesity is the greatest failure in medicine today.
Here is some practical advice from experts at the American Council on Exercise:
A lot of research on the right combination of exercise and diet still needs to be done. Start slowly and gradually push yourself into higher-intensity exercise as you adjust to being more active (depending on the advice form your physician and a fitness professional).
Make sure that the regimen is a long-term solution and that you are consistent in your routines.
When you increase your physical activity levels, you may become hungrier. However, you should choose energy-dense and low-calorie foods—-but not calorie-free foods.
Move more, Eat less…is still the mantra of most science, not to just lose weight, but for overall health, well-being, cardio-respiratory improvements, bone density, immune function and mental health.
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MYTH: Exercise is the best weapon against obesity. Millions of Americans STILL hold onto the idea that if they just exercise hard enough, they’l lose those last few pounds
.FACT: Exercise, while great for your health, is light artillery against obesity. Many factors control weight gain or loss. Such factors that have been established by scientific studies include genes, early life experience, learned behaviors, cultural and socioeconomic factors, and motivation. Therefore, it’s not surprising that there’s a huge variability in the amount of weight lost among many people doing the same routine.
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MYTH: To lose weight, I need a special diet.There have been an extreme number of fad diets that have appeared over the past 40 years! NEWS FLASH! They have not worked for many Americans! Many Americans looking for a quick fix will try any new diet that comes with appropriate media buzz, only to discover that if it seems too good to be true, it is.
FACT: Many people are keen to embrace the latest dietary fad but…this doesn’t make it correct. More than likely they hear about it from the media, a friend, a co-worker. Any diet is as good as your ability to keep the weight off.
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Fad diets don’t work for many reasons because they…
Are quick fixes that are difficult to maintain.
Often tilt the dietary balance (high protein, low carbs, high fat, no fat, all grapefruit, …) and deprive the body of crucial nutrients. [My personal prediction: We will see an increase in colon cancer, especially with younger people, because many of them are trying diets which eliminate fruits, vegetables and whole grains.]
Wreak havoc with your metabolism.
Promise unsustainable amounts of weight loss in too rapid a time frame.