• Featured,
  • Health & Fitness

    • If You Want To Maintain Your Weight After Losing It, Exercise Is Super Important

    By on November 20, 2017

    While nutrition and weight loss experts agree that weight loss is 80 percent nutrition and 20 percent exercise, when you’re in a controlled environment where you’re instructed to eat and move in a specific way, going out on your own and implementing this technique isn’t easy. “The issue with The Biggest Loser is that the participants are taught how to diet and work out at 110 to 150 percent of their capacity,” explains health and running coach Michelle Cady. “It’s hard to live by the 80/20 rule when back in real life. The most important thing to do is incorporate healthy lifestyle habits that incorporate both food and fitness in a long-term plan that plays on this positive feedback loop: You move your body, you feel better, you eat better, you sleep better—wake up, repeat.”

    Women’s health expert Dr. Anna Cabeca adds that while this study certainly proves that calorie-restricted diets are hard on the metabolism, all hope isn’t lost. “Prolonged and daily exercise can help,” she says. “Some other benefits to prolonged daily exercise are an increase in muscle mass, which speeds up the metabolism, as well as decreased levels of the stress hormone cortisol.”

    more recommended stories

    %d bloggers like this: