The Easy Diet for Life - Benefits to ExerciseExercise: The Subject You Love to HateOK, let’s all groan together – UGH! OK, good one. Now, get over it! You know the benefits to exercise are obvious whether you are trying to lose weight or not. Somewhere within every diet or weight loss program you have ever seen, read about or tried is a plug to exercise to burn fat. The common thread should be an apparent and bold clue. The results differential between dieting and sitting on the couch vs. dieting and being active is huge, a real no brainer. In “You on a Diet”, Drs. Oz & Roizen state the following: “When you lose weight without exercise, you lose both muscle and fat, but when you gain weight without exercise, you gain only fat. It’s much easier to gain fat weight than it is to gain muscle weight, which is on of the reasons why yo-yo dieting fails so miserably: When you continually gain and lose and gain and lose, you end up gaining proportionally more fat, because of the muscle loss that takes place every time you lose.” So, knowing that combining exercising to burn fat with a healthy low glycemic diet is the wise choice. Why do most avoid any kind of structured exercising program, even if it’s a free exercise program? Barriers to Daily Physical ExerciseHere are the 10 most common reasons people give for not being active:1. I do not have enough time. Think about how many of these statements above sound like something you might say. The first step to making wise and healthy choices is to look inside to figure out what keeps you from being more active. Perhaps if there were a simple, easy way to increase your daily exercise you might be more prone to getting up and boogie! May we suggest one change that may make the choice to exercise an easy one? Rather than calling it exercising, which brings to mind taking time to go to a gym, working with free weights, being around sweaty body builders, you may refer to “it” as increasing your daily activity. Easy Diet for Life thinks it’s a much more palatable saying. (We may still refer to it as “exercise” in this article, just substitute “daily activity”.) Even More Benefits of ExerciseIn 2004 a study in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine shows that people who increased their physical activity also improved the quality of their work and overall job performance. According to Mark Faries with the Fitness Institute of Texas, those with lower body mass indices (BMIs) also got along better with co-workers and missed fewer days of work.Dr. John Ratey, author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, explains how exercise impacts your brain. He has proven that when you exercise, it changes the physical structure of your brain! It increases the speed of processing, your memory. Science has proven that exercise, increased activity, primes your brain for success and makes you smarter. If you want to think clearer, beat stress, put the damper on your depression and boost your confidence, you only have to do one thing: exercise. And, exercise comes from increasing your daily activity. More often than not you can find numerous suggestions for a free exercise program. Free Exercise Programs, Ooops, sorry!
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The easiest most cost effective low-impact form of activity that is available to everyone is walking. Simple walking. You can walk around the house, around the block, at the mall, up and down the hallways at work. You can be indoors or out and it’s free!
