The type of exercise in a diet makes a difference

You have chosen the perfect diet that suits your lifestyle and tastes and you are planning to start this new eating plan. You realize you need to exercise, but which exercise works best. Let’s be honest here if you are obese, over 30lbs, any exercise you do will be something new and will immediately show a difference in your weight. By immediately I mean within the first two weeks you will notice a difference in what you can do sooner.

Not all exercises are created equal and you need to keep this in mind when putting together a quality plan. There are literally hundreds of books you can read about exercises and routines. Fortunately for you, all you need to do initially is increase the amount of exercise you do now and decrease the amount of food you eat and you will start to lose weight. Your diet should be designed to get the most out of exercise. Don’t eat right after exercising, especially in the morning or at night. If you do this, your body will replenish its energy stores from the food you’re eating rather than the fat you’ve stored.

There are two types of diet that are used in all kinds of weight loss programs. There is aerobic and anaerobic. In any good, well thought out diet, you should incorporate both types of exercise into your weight loss plan. By doing both diets, you use your body to burn fat while you exercise and rest. Both types of exercise use your body’s energy differently. Aerobic exercise uses oxygen and is low-impact and a gradual calorie burn. Walking, jogging, biking, stationary biking, and yoga are some aerobic exercises. These will use energy that is stored in your body, such as fat, as you tend to use large amounts of oxygen when doing these exercises.

Anaerobic exercises use short bursts of energy and use the energy stored in the muscles and surrounding tissue. These short bursts of exercise use up all of your stored energy, and as your muscle gets stronger, the exercise gets easier, and then you add more weight or resistance. Anaerobic exercises are exercises that require a short burst of energy, such as lifting weights, sprints, and activities with built-in rest periods.

You want to build your muscles so that they require more energy to move and even rest. Yes, this is how you lose weight while resting or watching TV. Remember that your body needs energy even at rest and will draw on your fat stores if necessary to keep you breathing or relaxing. The body uses energy for every bodily function, from drinking water to eating and exercising. So with the increase in muscle mass the number of calories burned will also increase.

You’re not seeing a lot of calories burned while at rest, but they will add up. When planning your exercise program, start gradually, usually with walking or bicycling. You can use a stationary bike and do a minimum of 20 minutes and no more than 60. But if you’re overweight and out of shape, you’ll have a hard time getting to 20 minutes. You can do this type of exercise twice a day if you have time because you need to burn 3,500 calories to lose a pound of fat. After a period of time and your body acclimates to exercise, start an anaerobic program, if for no other reason, to firm up your skin as fat begins to burn. Don’t worry, you won’t get muscular. It would take an immense amount of work and weight loss to achieve this goal.

Don’t waste your time with 50 pound in 20 day diets and supplements that promise to lose weight while still eating what you want. These are scientific impossibilities and if they did occur they would be a scientific discovery and then the FDA would want to know what was going on. So exercise, and when in doubt, exercise some more.