Lose Weight Without Exercise
A lot of people ask: can I lose weight without exercise? It’s been drummed into us that in order to successfully lose weight, it’s important to do exercise and eat right. However, lots of people don’t have much time for exercise and yet they need to lose weight.
However, weight loss (well, we’re talking about weight loss, but what most people want is fat loss rather than pure weight loss) is much faster when some daily exercise is incorporated. What people don’t realize though, is that they don’t need to exercise for hours upon hours every day in order to lose their excess fat.
Let’s look at weight loss at its most simple: Weight loss = Less calories consumed than calories burned. Therefore, if your body uses more calories just going about normal day to day activities than you eat each day in your food, you’ll lose weight whether you are exercising or not.
However, the body is also pretty clever. It doesn’t want you to burn off all that fat if there’s a famine coming (and yes, the body starts to think that food is scarce when you cut down on your calorie intake), so it tries to hold onto the fat and will actually REDUCE your metabolism by burning off muscle as well. This is NOT GOOD.
For this reason, the most successful dieters are those who combine their healthy eating program with regular exercise. Fortunately, this regular exercise doesn’t need to be anything too involved or too strenuous. It’s enough just to take a 20 minute to half hour walk several times a week. Not only is this good exercise, but it helps you get out in the fresh air too!
Really, any vigorous activity will do. Even housework or gardening can count as exercise if you’re moving at a fairly brisk pace when you do them. This is great news for people who need to lose weight and yet who don’t have much time for exercise! Fat loss can be as simple as a healthy eating plan, with Acai Berry Select weight loss formula, combined with a bit of regular light exercise.
