Wednesday, 21 August 2013

You don't need to exercise at all!

It takes a burn of 3500 calories to lose one pound of weight. (sigh)

Even is you are a fantastic fitness person who burns a lot while doing their cardio, you can not exercise away a bad diet. The flip side of this is that you do not need to exercise at all to lose weight. If you monitor your caloric intake, you will lose weight. (Obvious benefits of exercise aside, this is true.)

So, even though I have DVT, I can and should be losing weight. But after a 10 days I am gaining. This is for a couple of reasons.

1 - I am not exercising so the additional calories I was burning and not being burned.
2 - I think the exercise mentally keeps you on track more than just sticking to a routine diet.
3 - August has been full of WAY TOO MANY celebrations. My bday was one day but I have been celebrating for weeks.
4 - I am getting ready to get back to Australia and just not in a routine.

Whatever the reason, I need to be super conscious of my diet and get back on track.

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