is this right?...if i exercise everyday (burn around 500 cal), and continue to eat the SAME foods as before..shouldnt i lose 1 pound a week regardless of my actual diet?..and if thats the case, diet is really just an "addition" to weight loss?
2007-05-23 12:28:38 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Not necessarily, it depends on how much you're eating.
If you exercise and continue to eat like you have then you're working against yourself. On one hand you're doing something good, on the other hand you're still messing up your body. It's like going to the gym, burning 500 calories and then going out to Krispy Kreme and having a couple of doughnuts because you've "earned them". At best, you'd lose weight extremely slowly, or probably remain the same.
Figure out your BMR and your daily requirements. Then figure out how much you're eating in a regular day. Let's say your BMR is 1900 and your daily maintenance level is 600 so your total amount is 2500 calories for the day and you'll maintain that weight. Now let's say that you're eating 2800 calories a day, not a lot more than your daily requirements but it's enough that over time you'd get a little doughy. If you work out at 500 calories a day, every day your net calories for the day is now 2300 which means your calorie deficit is only 200 a day. At that rate it would take you 17 1/2 days to lose a pound of fat.
That's barely worth the trouble is you ask me.
2007-05-23 12:44:30 · answer #1 · answered by JavaJoe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eat only when hungry and eat healthy and not more than three times a day. Only water in between. Chew each morsel at least 32 times so that ur body starts generating signals of hunger and fullness.
Take light exercises and brisk walks every day preferably twice.
The above regime will help u achieve what u might never have dreamt.
2007-05-23 12:49:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on your metabolism and whether you are male or female.
If you are male, you are being more accurate than if you are female.
Females have a subcutaneous fat layer which clings to us to prepare for having a baby. In order to lose weight, we have to 'trick' our systems into letting the fat go, and this is not a straightforward proposition.
That's why you will see men lose weight and keep it off just by going to the gym regularly, but women have to go through a rigamarole including diet, exercise, water management, etc.
2007-05-23 12:34:38 · answer #3 · answered by nora22000 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, yes, if your diet was making you maintain your current weight before. But, if your diet had a lot of calories, you could have been gradually putting on weight anyway, so if you workout and kept with the same high calorie diet, you wouldn't lose weight. Hmm... I hope that made sense.
2007-05-23 12:39:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
fast food is salty food if you cut back on the salt in a few weeks youll be able to better taste the natural salts in food and may not crave the junk as much as you used to
2016-04-21 09:45:47 · answer #5 · answered by Faith 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋