Are there any positives or negatives to weight management by only exercising, and not dieting? I know it’s possible, and very doable. As with an intense workout routine your daily calorie needs increase substantially. My primary concern is physique, and how my body will start taking shape as I loose the fat.
It depends on how you’re using the word "diet". Good nutrition and health go hand-in-hand, and any successful weight loss/health gain program will include a change in the diet that got a person there in the first place. If you wish to be successful in the long-term, dietary changes to need to be made if you’re diet is unhealthy in the first place.
However, when talking about fad diets or crash diets, those are pure bunk and have been shown time and again they do not work. The goal of any program should always be good health for the lifespan, that is the only way it can truly stick.
Look at it this way, our body has to get nutrition from somewhere, and the only place is what we give it, and if we’re giving it a lot of junk, that’s the only material it has to build from, and junk will only cause the end product to be weaker than it could otherwise be. So if the diet consists of cookies and ice cream, what do you suppose your body will have from that to build on as compared to a diet of fresh veggies, whole grains, lean proteins and healthy fats?
The only negative is that you wouldn’t lose as much weight was you would if you dieted.
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It depends on how you’re using the word "diet". Good nutrition and health go hand-in-hand, and any successful weight loss/health gain program will include a change in the diet that got a person there in the first place. If you wish to be successful in the long-term, dietary changes to need to be made if you’re diet is unhealthy in the first place.
However, when talking about fad diets or crash diets, those are pure bunk and have been shown time and again they do not work. The goal of any program should always be good health for the lifespan, that is the only way it can truly stick.
Look at it this way, our body has to get nutrition from somewhere, and the only place is what we give it, and if we’re giving it a lot of junk, that’s the only material it has to build from, and junk will only cause the end product to be weaker than it could otherwise be. So if the diet consists of cookies and ice cream, what do you suppose your body will have from that to build on as compared to a diet of fresh veggies, whole grains, lean proteins and healthy fats?
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Weight loss is a simple calculation of calories in versus calories out. It depends how much you eat in the first place and how sedentary your life is when you’re not at the gym. If you’re eating 3000 calories per day and burning, say 400 at the gym, then going and sitting at a desk for 8 hours, it’s not going to do much. If you eat, say 1600 calories per day, burn 400 at the gym, then are up and down all day, maybe it could work.
I would suggest that you keep a food diary and then also keep track of how much you are exercising and what kinds of exercises you are doing. Then, you can calculate how much you are actually burning.
Weight training helps to burn calories while you are resting, so that’s important to throw in, but cardio blasts them off and helps your heart as well. Working out, I’ve found, makes a person hungrier than he or she would be if he or she wasn’t working out, so it’s difficult not to overeat if you just let yourself graze willy-nilly.
If you are really concerned about this you should consult a physician or a nutritionist.
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