Was Time Magazine Pulling Your Leg?

Recently, Time Magazine had an article entitled, “Why Exercise  Won’t  Make You Thin”.  Is Time Magazine misinformed or has the author not read any of the many studies that show exercise as being critical to losing weight and maintaining a healthy weight, when coupled with good eating habit?

Here are facts discovered by countless studies studying exercise:

1. Exercise gets rid of belly fat
   Although I hate aerobics, it has the greatest impact on reducing abdominal fat, also known as visceral fat– the dangerous fat that increases your risk of diabetes and heart disease.
2. Exercise uses up excess calories
   We do tend to overeat and if you don’t exercise these extra calories will get stored as fat.
3. Exercise maintains your weight over time
   
   Once gone, the weight you lost won’t have a chance to come sneaking back if you exercise on a regular basis. 90% of those who lost kept it off because of daily exercise.
4. Exercise helps boost your metabolism
   Who wants to lose muscle? That’s what dieting will do if you don’t exercise. Sure you will also lose fat but losing muscles means you will burn fewer calories. Keeping your muscle structure intact and in fact, building new muscle actually increases your metabolism to burn more calories. It’s a win-win affair.
5. Exercise has hidden benefits
   
   It’s not always about the weight you lose.  Muscle also weighs. So if you gain 3 pounds of lean muscle and lose 4 pounds of fat, you’ve actually improved your body condition despite what the weight scale says.
6. Exercise also work on emotions
   Because working out regulated your mood, it also has a direct effect on you when stressed. Some emotional eaters will binge when stressed out. Exercise will help curb your appetite.
7. Exercise gets the ball rolling
   
   It all starts with healthy habits. When people make positive changes, like getting more exercise, they tend to work on other health improvements as well, such as eating better.
8. Exercise can be fun :
   
   Being active is sometimes easier to do than just concentrating at being slim.  Rock climbing, for instance, can be a challenge physically plus it’s a lot of fun. You can’t climb a celery stick!
9. Exercise can make you not hungry
   Exercising seems to stop those hunger pangs or at least make you less hungry. Now isn’t that great?
10. Exercise increases energy
    Because you are active regularly, your stamina will increase. This is due to your body producing more energy-promoting neurotransmitters which motivates you even more to keep those pounds off.

I do want to add that a nutritional plan for weight loss does exist where loss of muscle is not an issue even if the person has little to no exercise.

How do I know this?  Because I’ve experienced it myself.

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