Question about weight-loss (comparing methods)?
So, everyone knows that the best way to lose weight is to eat properly and exercise right? I thought about this question for a while, and I couldn't give myself a good answer. One part of eating right is controlling your caloric intake right? And with that, you factor in the exercise to burn off x number of calories that you intake... so what's wrong with cutting out exercise and reducing your caloric intake by the amount you would have burned by exercise? The only disadvantage that I could see would be that you're not strengthening your heart from cardio workouts, but you theoretically should still be losing weight right? Yes, it's true that you should work out your heart muscle, but there are so many people out there that dont do cardio at all and if you didn't do cardio before and was only concerned about healthy weight-loss and not in strengthening your heart... what's wrong with eating properly... like no saturated fats, processed foods, and eating lots of fruits and veggies, but counting your calories to the suggested level minus the amount you would burn from doing cardio?
July 31st, 2010 - 23:01
The physiology of the body is this:
If you simply cut calories and not exercise, your METABOLISM will decrease. This means you will NOT burn as much calories as you used to. Therefore the more calories you cut out, the less energy you will have. And the less energy you have, the MORE your body will crave food. So cutting out lots of calories and no exercise will essentially make you GAIN weight in the long run.
The best way to lose weight is to BOTH eat right/less AND exercise 20-30 minutes daily (cardiovascular). Do weight training too to increase muscle mass so your metabolism will increase.