Exercise should not only be considered as a method to lose weight but also as an essential tool to remain healthy through treating and preventing illness and diseases. This May’s Exercise is Medicine™ Month, is a time for everyone to recognize, emphasize and celebrate the valuable health benefits of exercise and to May-Kit Happen.
When choosing a diet to lose weight it seems that rather than eating a balanced healthy diet people choose to follow the latest celebrity endorsed diet which often emphasize eating high levels of protein, fat or carbohydrates. Now researchers have examined the long term advantages of these diets.
For those of us wanting to lose weight, the important aim is to use up our stores of fat. When we think about how to improve our physical condition, aerobic exercises or resistant work are two of the most common choices. But could combining the two exercises in the right order increase our body’s fat burning ability?
Restricting food for weight loss isn’t really my thing. Although I need to lose some weight, I think it’s more important to adopt a long term healthy diet than to starve yourself for a few weeks. I started by not having sugar in my coffee, there is around 16 calories in a teaspoon of sugar, which doesn’t sound like much but in 5 cups a day 7 days a week that is around 560 calories.
Posted on May 27th, 2009 in Strenua's Challenge
The scientist in me wanted to record my baseline body measurements so if my weight loss plateaus I can hopefully stay motivated with some recordable inch losses.
