Is Dieting Without Exercise The Fastest Weight Loss Solution?

I read an article in the papers recently written by someone who implied that dieting alone cannot result into weight loss. With all due respect, I beg to disagree. As a weight loss consultant I will recommend both without hesitation but will not subscribe to the notion stated above.

I have seen a number of clients lose weight by dieting alone. Without making it sound like some mantra, the principle behind any weight loss programme is to burn more calories than you are consuming. Going on a diet or a strict exercise regime would ensure this. However, I have seen so many clients shed a lot of weight from dieting alone.

When you go on a diet and you start to consume less calories than you were consuming before your body would have to look inwards for the calories that it is being deprived of and where else would it look but inside itself. It will begin by burning the glycogen that the calories have been converted into. After the body has depleted its glycogen level it will start to burn the fat, this fat burning process is known as ketosis. The body has to go through this process before you can shed any weight.

While your body is depleting its glycogen level you will experience what is commonly known as carbohydrate withdrawals, which is normal. This experience is commonly accompanied by headaches, dizzy spells and fatigue. If you have a weight loss consultant to explain to you then you would not be alarmed because your consultant should also tell you that the experience would not last for more than a few days.

If you are dieting, it is easy to associate this experience with the diet, that is, lack of food. If you are only exercising however and you start feeling that way you would associate the experience to the same thing - lack of food and this might prompt you to want to eat, probably excessively. It is highly unlikely you would have burnt as much calories exercising as you would consume eating that heavy meal.

My advice to anyone who wants to lose weight is this, start with a diet and as soon as you pass that glycogen depletion stage and your body gets used to the diet start some light exercises.

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