26/01/2021
Let’s get back to basics!!!!
Always around this time of year, we hear about various different diets, Keto, intermittent fasting, vegan, Paleo, the list goes on. People looking for the next big thing, the quick fix, the magic pill🙄
At the end of the day, no matter which one you choose, unless you’re creating a calorie deficit none of them will work.
Last night after my zoom class I touched a bit on how people tend to over estimate their calorie output during exercise and become a little disheartened.
The majority of you now have some sort of device or app telling you your calorie output after your activity.
Unless you are say a long distance runner, you will NOT lose weight through exercise alone. Yes you will get fitter, stronger, feel better, all those things but you will not lose weight unless you’re creating that deficit with daily calories.
However ..., having said all that, people who workout (consistently) create a thermal effect within their body meaning basically that they create more lean muscle mass and less body fat, which in turn will give them a faster BMR (Resting metabolic rate) so fitter people generally burn more calories sleeping or at rest in layman’s terms.
This is what you what you want to create for yourself, This is how you create long term weight loss, but consistency is the key, not random workouts.
Let’s take a 30 minute kettlebell class for example, you will burn approximately 300 calories, or about 3 hob nobs!!! Not great is it ?? But....if you’re consistent with your efforts , you will change your body composition creating more lean muscle mass, and in turn overtime will lose weight, providing your calorie intake from food is on point👌 so don’t get caught up or disheartened with low calorie output from some forms of exercise, but do get caught up with tracking your calorie intake IF weight loss is YOUR GOAL.
If you’re in doubt of your daily calories in , download my fitness pal and track every morsel, it’s cumbersome at the beginning but we all mostly repeat meals so you’ll only have to do it once and it will be stored.
It becomes second nature after a while. If you’re genuinely serious about losing weight it’s worth it.
So morel of the story, eat less, move more, track everything, create a deficit, no need to cut food groups but do if you want, if it works for you 👍 yes you can lose weight without exercise but it’s more difficult and be prepared to go hungry and manifest a lazy metabolism if you chose that route, and be prepared to put back on weight when you start eating “normally” again. That’s called yo yo dieting, another topic for another day 😉
