Friday, September 11, 2009

Ways To A Healthier You!

By Casy Wigwire

For a long time, the weight loss mantra has been to eat less and exercise regularly and often, yet the epidemic of overweight and obesity not only continues but is growing. A provocative article in the Sunday, August 9 issue of Time entitled "Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin" draws attention to a part of the mantra that may be in error: exercise may not really help achieve weight loss.

After your physician's okay, you can begin to take a look at all the different plans and programs that are available in the area. This can mean combining diet, exercise, and you may have to change your lifestyle as well.

There are quite a variety of different types of weight-loss programs available. You can look into a weight loss camp, an intensive week long program, possibly two. Where you will get out away from home and be able to focus on just you. This is a great way to examine your lifestyle, get an education concerning food and weight loss, and spend time getting to know why you have weight loss problem, and what you can do to fix it.

Your calorie expenditure is a function of many things including your basal metabolic rate (BMR), various metabolic processes and exercise. Disregarding everything else, let's focus purely on exercise for the time being (even though exercise in isolation is a very small piece to the weight loss puzzle).

You can choose the type of encouragement that you would want with a boot camp program. Some are run in the military style, and others are more positive encouragement types and may include yoga or mind-body training.

The trick to selecting which weight loss machine to use is to ensure that you can exercise at an intensity that is outside your comfort zone. By exercising vigorously, you will therefore be expending more calories and thus create a greater calorie deficit. This of course assumes that you have established a deficit by accommodating for all other factors also. - 29161

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