Exercise is About Your Health Not Your Weight

[SequoiaHealth 0]

This is what I call weight loss myth #1. If you workout enough you can lose weight. Exercise is NOT about losing weight. Exercise is about improving your health. You say. “What the heck is he talking about? Everybody tells me to exercise to lose weight.” Let me explain.

Let’s say you and I decide to have lunch together. We overeat by say 500 calories. Now if we both decide to “work it off” with exercise, how long do you think we need to go? Generally speaking, 2 hours of exercise would take care of those 500 calories. But what about the next 500 calories at dinner? Hopefully you can see my point.

Controlling excess weight is about learning to eat healthier portions. Exercise is about giving your body and mind what they need for continued good health. A recent study supports this concept 100%. The researchers found that it was better to be overweight and active than overweight and sedentary (worst) or normal weight and sedentary.

I tell all my clients to find activities they like and people they like to do them with. That is the perfect combination. More to come....

[losingjusme 12]

sorry, i whole heartedly disagree.

exercising has given me an incredible boost in my weight loss. i see noticeable differences in my loss in the weeks i do exercise vs. the weeks i do not.

[jmarruda 22]

You may want to do some more reading on this site to see how important exercise actually is to weight loss.

[OH Juli 15]

SequioaHealth is shopping for clients.

My advice is to leave 'um alone.