Fat loss through exercise alone doesn’t work

The most common thing I see in the gym that causes people to fail with their fat loss goal is exercising without changing their eating habits or making a very half-assed attempt at it.

To encourage your body to loose fat you have to create a calorie deficit. Exercise by itself is not a wholly efficient way of achieving this as it takes far more time and effort with exercise as opposed to not eating the food in the first place.

To illustrate- a Big Mac which contains 540 kcal could be eaten in a couple of minutes but it would take an average person (70kg’s) cycling at a moderate pace almost an hour to burn the same amount of calories.

Here is just one study that supports that exercise is not an effective way to loose weight-

http://jap.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/00958.2009

“These data suggest that when exercise is performed with energy replacement (i.e., energy balance is maintained), 24-h fat oxidation does not increase and in fact, may be slightly decreased. It appears that the state of energy balance is an underappreciated factor determining the impact of exercise on fat oxidation.”

It’s much easier to loose weight by eating less than it is than to try and try and burn off calories through exercise alone. Of course combining exercise with a dietary intervention has been shown to be the most effective method.

Please don’t just take my word for it, do some research yourself online and you will find so many more studies on the subject.

The definition of Gluttony is- “habitual eating to excess”.

Get real with yourself and realise that if you are overweight in the absence of disease (and it’s often the wrong food choices that cause the disease in the first place) then you are completely responsible for your current condition and that vey little will change unless you make changes to your eating habits. You simply eat too much or have eaten too much over an extended period of time. Trying to loose weight through exercise alone is an exercise in futility.