Introducing Physical Activity For Weight Control

This article is about how you can use physical activity in maintaining a healthy weight, in losing weight and keeping it off.

Firstly, exercise must be combined with healthy eating in order to lose weight long-term. Exercise alone cannot produce healthy weight loss. Physical activity is necessary for successful weight loss, but also to prevent non-communicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease and strokes.

Physical activity helps with high blood pressure, depression, arthritis and vitality. Overweight and obese people will therefore benefit from both losing weight and having better general health. The type and amount of exercise required by obese/overweight could vary, the recommended for everyone is 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise each week, this will contribute to better health and burn calories. Moderate-intensity exercise can be achieved by brisk walking 5-7 days per week. It is best for persons who want to lose weight to master this exercise routine for everyone before moving on to others. The reason being: the cause of their excess weight may be their failure to get what is recommended for everyone. If 150 minutes of moderate intensity exercise per week is not enough to lose weight on your recommended food intake, you can then increase your physical activity to more vigorous or prolonged.

If you've been overweight for sometime you may need to build up to more vigorous or prolonged exercise to achieve required weight loss. You will need to eat less calories and/or burn more with exercise. When you start on a weight loss plan it is also wise to start with your recommended food intake (for your age and gender), no less no more. This would mean modifying your diet to this amount. Once you've set goals to lose weight, start keeping a record of all your activities, you need it to determine your level activity before you start and you will need it to increase your activity level later. The Center for Disease Control(CDC) has outlined the type and and amount of physical activity required by weight watchers. Click Here to read about them and to set realistic goals.

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