Tis the season to be jolly, so all of us ate and drank too much. Soon you will face your day of reckoning. You will look at yourself in the mirror and decide that you must go on a diet immediately to lose the weight you have gained. When this happens, this article will be important to you.
You, like most people, may try to lose the weight that you gained, by going on a diet. However, you will not lose what you are seeing in the mirror, by going on a diet.
When you look at yourself in the mirror, what you see is fat, not weight. You may see it on your belly, hips, thighs, legs, arms or face. It is the fat that you see that prompts you to decide to go on a diet, but you dont lose fat by dieting.
You have gained fat over the holiday season by eating more calories than you have used. You will have gained 1 pound of fat for every 3,500 calories you consumed, but didnt use. It is very easy to gain fat over the holiday season. Not only do we eat and drink much more than usual, but we are relatively inactive in comparison with the rest of the year. This is a recipe for piling on fat.
You wont lose the fat by just reducing the number of calories that you eat, to less than the number of calories that you use. This, by the way, is called dieting. Only exercise brings about fat loss. Regrettably, too many people think that they can lose their unwanted body fat by dieting. This is because they think that fat loss and weight loss are interchangeable terms; they are not.
What Happens If You Diet, But Dont Exercise?
We all know that weight loss does happen when we go on a diet – even if we dont exercise. Our scales tell us this. If you dont exercise, the weight loss will be due to a loss of water from your body. You will invariably regain the weight that you lost, when you come off the diet, because your body will automatically replenish its water level.
What Should You Do
To lose the unwanted fat that you see in the mirror, you must do a regular exercise routine that burns fat. You should also adopt a way of eating that helps your body to lose fat, from the exercise. There is much for you to learn about fat burning exercise and eating routines that help you to lose the fat.