Doesn’t sound possible to
lose the weight by the calories-out method, does it?
A better mousetrap has
already been built—concentrate your efforts on the calories-in part. That’s
where you do something about your food intake. You can limit your intake,
change what you eat, or start dieting. This should help with the calories-in.
What about the calories-out?
Exercising. Burning off the calories you take in. Exercise is not the great
equalizer to calories-in that it’s cracked up to be. Exercising burns off the
calories-in at a very slow rate, and cannot catch up to the weight gain from
calories-in—except if you exercise to the extreme. So you can’t count on exercising
to help you lose weight, unless you’re ready to climb those 20 flights of
stairs.
Nevertheless, exercising
does a lot of good for the woman who wants to lose weight. Here’s how.
Exercising is a great motivator. For example, from exercising, you can get the
idea that if you can stick to an exercise regimen, you can stick to any
regimen, even an eating regimen. From exercising, you feel better physically
because you are taking better care of your body. This helps you to realize how
loading up on the calories-in destroys this “new body” of yours. This
realization leads to handling the calories-in so it is more compatible with the
“changed you” that’s coming from exercising.
So don’t count out exercising.
It has enormous motivational and confidence-building value. But when it comes
to losing the weight, focus your efforts on the calories-in side of the
equation. (And remember, the calories-in side is not all about food. There is a
psychological side to calories-in.)
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