Weight Loss Treatment

The starting base weight loss is achieved when the energy balance is negative: they consume more calories than you eat. Therefore, doing exercise is good because it burns calories. But make no mistake: the amount burned in it is smaller than commonly thought.

If after exercise we “rewarded” with a particularly appealing and calorie meal (a muffin, extra helping at dinner, one dessert that we like and therefore we …), we may be prohibited by canceling the slimming effect of exercise. You can even fatter than we are if we’d been sitting watching TV.

This is not to say that we should exercise when we want to lose weight, quite the contrary. The question is who should always be combined with diet, to add both effects. And never eat more after exercise. Read the rest of this entry »