If you have ever found yourself overweight. You will know the sheer terror that the words diet and exercise could strike into the hearts of people, that need it most. The idea of eating rabbit food as some people call it or salad as the rest of the world know it. And the idea of running 5 miles per morning is to some people... hell. But if we step back for a second and look at these two words objectively what are they actually saying to us.
The word diet is actually nothing to do with Weight Watchers it just means what you eat. Eating fewer calories is just one of the healthy ways to lose weight. Everybody has a static metabolic rate. This is the rate at which your body burns calories doing absolutely nothing for 24 hours. So let's just say for instance the core static metabolic rate is around 2000 calories. That means that you have to eat 2000 calories per day to maintain the weight you currently are. Put simply if you cut 500 calories out of your day you will automatically lose weight. No diet required and no exercise required you're simply reducing the amount of calories you are taking.
Your body will lose the weight slowly as it burns 500 calories of fat per day instead of food energy. Same goes for the word exercise. When people talk about the word exercise they automatically assume going to a gym or running and marathon three times a week. But again let's look at the word objectively. What does exercise mean. Exercise is simply exerting yourself above and beyond your daily needs. Say for instance you need to walk your kids to school every day walking the long way home is classed as exercise.
And when you combine this with the calorific reduction you are automatically cutting pounds from your diet. The average pound of fat contains 3500 calories. So if you cut say 500 calories per day and combine that with a 300 calorie exercise routine per day which would be a 3 mph brisk walk over 2 miles. You're automatically losing weight without exerting yourself. Exercising to lose weight is simply walking for weight loss and taking care of your food intake at the same time. You are simply exerting your body above and beyond its usual. This in itself is a form of weight-loss and dieting.
When we think of healthy ways to lose weight, walking for weight loss seems to be overlooked. But a regular walk can shed pounds if you cut your calories at the same time. It may take time. But the weight will stay off.
