The human body is a amazing thing. It has adapted over millions of years to the environment around us. The body has continued to flourish throughout heat and cold, dark and light and feast and famine. It is this last set of conditions that is most important to those attempting to slim down via exercise and weight loss.
Why? The body has learned to hoard energy in times of famine. While food intake drops, the body does not know, and does not care, if you're on a diet or simply unable to discover enough food. To the body, a sustained fall in calories means one thing - it's survival time, baby!
Under these conditions, the body starts to amass body fat as kind of an insurance policy against the coming hard times. If the decreased calorie consumption means something needs to go weight-wise, the body sure is not giving up that insurance. No way. Instead, the body will begin to sacrifice healthy muscle tissue. Consequently, with many fad and/or crash diets, it is not extra fat that's being lost, it's healthy tissue.
As soon as food consumption increases, and it always will using these yo-yo diet programs, the body happily starts regaining every part of that lost muscle tissue and, you guessed it, all the weight lost goes right back on. That's why exercise and weight loss need to become partners in any successful long-term weight loss program.
Exercise in addition to weight loss work hand in hand using the body's own evolutionary diversifications to make sure successful and healthy weight loss. Regular exercise raises the body's metabolism, as a result that calories are burned more efficiently. This raise in metabolism, in turn, sends a apparent point to the body that any decrease in food intake is not reason for alarm. The body in its place properly attributes the fall in calories to the increased activity brought on by regular exercise.
Under these conditions, the body does not store fat like a miser. In its place, it burns body fat like there's no tomorrow in an attempt to keep up with the demand for energy. The effect is naturally effective weight loss. The weight comes off and stays off. This is the reason why exercise and weight loss become the solution to successful dieting.
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