Starting Fitness with Weight Loss

Weight Loss isn’t a Magical Happening!

You already have the approval of your doctor, you have raised your goals, you considered hiring a personal trainer, you have scheduled a diet and chosen a gym. You also have taken a look at your final thoughts on what to expect and how to handle yourself in a place dedicated to physical exercises. Now examine the mechanisms of one of the main reasons why people attend a gym which weight loss and it is not a magical happening occurring overnight.

Why We Gain Weight?

The simple answer is that because we consume more calories than our body needs. An average adult male consumes about 2000-2500 calories a day, while a woman consumes less, about 1500-2000 calories daily. If your total intake involves more than what you demand, your energy expenditure will add weight to your body as fat reserves that are deposited mainly in the abdomen, waist, buttocks and thighs. If on a typical day you consume 3000 calories daily you'll be incorporating a surplus of 500-1000 calories to your metabolism and you cannot get rid of them but depositing them as fat in your body. So it is simple to have fat and it is far more difficult to lose weight Details About the Program Venus Factor

Losing Weight in the Gym!

In truth, the title is not strictly correct as no weight is lost in the gym as weight loss is achieved through an accelerated calorie diet and it is shaped and toned with the muscular appearance in the gym.

If you intend to eat wildly and spend those calories at the gym, you're wrong as the training and aerobic routines fail to burn the calories you consume in excess. Moreover, it is extremely difficult to calculate the amount of calories you burn in your routine, as each individual has a particular metabolism rate with different energy expenditure and may vary with indicators such as

  • Stress
  • Age
  • Intensive sports
  • Sedentary lifestyle
  • Hormonal factors,
  • Genetic Factors

Never believe that losing weight is a process that begins when you step on the gym and ends when you leave it.

Your best strategy is to design a low calorie diet, in you have essential nutrients combined with exercise which makes you lose weight smoothly and avoiding the dreaded rebound effect.

An Example

Suppose you eat a diet of 4000 calories a day without physical activity which is clearly an excess. First, lower the amount of food you eat and replace fats and excessive carbohydrates for protein and fiber as no junk and fried foods, sweets, cakes, donuts and sausages. Reduce your consumption of bread. Increases lean meats, poultry, fish, vegetables and fruits. Consult a nutritionist for a diet according to your specific case.

Probably after this procedure, you will have saved about 1,000 calories to your diet. Now you must raise your rate of energy expenditure by exercising. In addition to consuming calories, exercise increases the speed at which your metabolism burns calories. As you are forcing your body to get to work, you will achieve this with a good routine of weight training and aerobics.

Adding the amount of calories in your new diet that you have stopped using and you spend with exercise, you are probably now around 2500 calories, which is very close to the ideal figure for the average adult. As you see, it is not about magic or rocket science the matter to lose weight, but it is the willpower to follow your diet and exercise program.

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John Barban