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Cart Why do we need exercising to lose our body weight?
The slimming effect of physical activity is obvious. Scientific evidence concurs. A recent review of all the credible studies compared the relationship between body weight and exercise and showed that people who were more physically active had less body weight. Another set of studies showed that exercising on a regular basis helped to keep off weight originally lost through exercise programs. No surprise here, either. Starting and stopping an exercise program is not a good idea. It is better to build it into your lifestyle so that you will become and continue to be more fit over all, not just burn off calories.
How much exercise is needed to keep the pounds off? A rough estimate derived from a good review suggested that exercising a mere fifteen to forty-five minutes per day, every day, will maintain a body weight that is eleven to eighteen pounds lighter than it would otherwise be. Interestingly, we should not forget our "spontaneous" physical activity, the kind that is associated with chores of daily life. This can account for 100-800 calories per day. People who are regularly "up and about" doing physical things are going to be well ahead of those who get trapped in a sedentary lifestyle.
Diet and exercise work together to decrease body weight and improve overall health.