Why Exercise ALONE Won’t Make You Thin

CNN published an article in their Health & Science this month called Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin – it’s a catchy title. It title should be “Why Exercise ALONE Won’t Make You Thin”.

The bottom line reasoning to this article is as follows. When people exercise it makes them more hungry, when people get more hungry they are more apt to eat, when they try to have self-control they can’t because “exercise depletes not just the body’s muscles but the brain’s self-control muscle as well” — or so the article claims.

Here is one of the quotes from the article.

The real bottom line is there are four main components to loosing weight and if you skip one of them you will not have long term success in your weight loss goals.

1) Lifestyle change — Don’t go to all-you-can-eat buffets, no more greasy foods, cut out juice and eat fresh fruits instead, less red meat more fish and chicken, and lots of low calorie filler foods. No more pop, sweets, high weight to calorie foods, and the list goes on. You must make a lifestyle change that out lasts you weight loss push or you will just gain all your weight back when your push is over like a yo-yo.

2) Regular exercising — Make time to exercise, your quality of life depends on it. Start with 15 to 30 minutes a day and increase it to 1 to 2 hours a day. Losing weight is hard work and lots of self denial. Don’t fall for any programs that tell you there is some easy way to lose weight, there is no easy way.

3) Portion control — Put a cap on how many calories you eat a day. Find out how many calories you burn in a day at your level of activity, add to that the calories you burn exercising, and give yourself a deficiency of 500 to 1000 calories a day. A calorie deficiency of 500 calories a day will give you a weight loss of 5lbs a month.

4) Eating low weight to calorie ratio foods — Nuts are 100 gram to 500 calories, that is a ratio of 1 to 5. Green Peppers are 100 grams to 20 calories that is a ratio of 1 to 0.2.

Yes exercise ALONE won’t make you thin but a lifestyle change with portion control and watching the foods you eat WITH regular exercising WILL make you thin.

Read my Lose 10LBS In 25 Days and follow my daily weight loss progress and find out how easy it is to lose weight — I am on day 10 and I have dropped from 160 to 154.4LBS. (I started my long term weight loss program about 7 months ago when i was 195LBS. My goal is a loss of 50LBS for a weight of 145.