Why Exercises Won’t Make You Lose Weight?

Why I am killing myself in the gym and I don’t see weight loss results?

Have you ever thought about losing weight and the first thing you did was to enrol in the gym or go for a run? You are not alone. The first step that many take when they want to lose weight is to do exercises: running, gym or functional training. But this is a wrong concept. The truth is that doing exercises will not help you lose weight, why? Here are the facts:

Because the exercises will not be able to compensate for a bad diet. Here’s an example: if you walk 30 minutes you burn 200Kcal, which represents only 4 cookies or one ice cream (Sunday).

It is disproportionate how many exercises you have to do to burn just a few more bites. You have to climb several floors of a building to burn off a few calories.

Collaborating with this, studies have already revealed that:

1. Exercise alone does not lose weight.
2. Caloric expenditure generated by aerobic exercise does not promote weight loss.

Furthermore, doing exercises can greatly increases your hunger and if you do not know how to make the right food choices you can end up eating a lot more calories than you should in the day, which will not make you lose weight!

I recommend the practice of exercise, of course, mainly for the benefits already proven to our physical and mental health and also to prevent diseases.

So what should we do to lose weight?

To lose weight you need to generate a calorie deficit which is something that exercise will rarely achieve. To burn 1 kg of body fat you need to be in a calorific deficit of 7000kcal / week. So you need to follow a calculated diet according to your metabolism that will be effective for your weight loss! The correct combination of macronutrients (protein, carbohydrates, fats), the right balance of vitamins and minerals and the right portion sizes will cut the path short. You will lose weight healthily and avoid frustration.

So do not waste your time in the gym if you purely want to lose weight, focus your energy on following a diet and seek the help of a nutritionist! Do go to the gym or practice sports to be stronger, build leaner mass, increase feel-good hormones, socialise and for fun. 

Wanting to lose weight just through exercise, as evidenced by the studies, is like wanting and trying to fill your pool with a glass. Studies show us that slimming through exercise works ONLY if there is an intervention in the individual’s diet.

“(Physical Activity) is the best medicine ever created! But it’s a non-weight loss remedy. “Yoni Freedhoff, University of Ottawa.

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