{"id":4783,"date":"2011-04-18T05:56:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T03:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=4783"},"modified":"2015-02-15T09:29:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T14:29:57","slug":"exercise-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/exercise-weight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise and Weight Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now, I’m sure you’ve\u00a0seen (or heard) media\u00a0reports\u00a0that\u00a0exercise – in and of itself – isn’t a major\u00a0contributor to weight loss (click here for an example<\/a>). While I’d dispute that (at least for those looking to optimize their body comps), it’s probably true that exercise alone isn’t enough for your average person\u00a0who’s interested in losing\u00a0his\/her surplus flab.<\/p>\n

At least from a physiological perspective…<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, I’d like to draw attention to this thoughtful blog post from Dr. Yoni Freedhoff<\/a>, on the power of exercise from a psychological perspective:<\/p>\n

Saw a lovely patient the other day. She’d been doing great with our program, had lost 7% of her body weight, and was thrilled to pieces.<\/p>\n

About a month ago however, she developed an injury, and as a consequence, her exercise dropped down to nothing.<\/p>\n

Wanna know what else dropped down to nothing?<\/p>\n

Her healthy eating behaviours.<\/p>\n

She stopped food diarizing, snacking, including protein, and having enough calories for breakfast. As a consequence, she’s started struggling in the evening again and has gained a few pounds.<\/p>\n

…I’ve seen this pattern hundreds of times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A regular exercise program requires discipline and intent… which\u00a0can carry\u00a0over to other lifestyle behaviors, including diet\/eating behavior. Thus, as Dr. Freedhoff concludes, “…exercise has a crucial and relatively unexplored scientific synergy with dietary caloric reduction.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By now, I’m sure you’ve\u00a0seen (or heard) media\u00a0reports\u00a0that\u00a0exercise – in and of itself – isn’t a major\u00a0contributor to weight loss (click here for an example). While I’d dispute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,29],"tags":[616],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9152,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions\/9152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}