Losing weight without exercise

Losing weight without exercise IS possible. I have personally lost 45 pounds so far by diet alone - and I did not struggle or put my health in jeopardy by following some idiotic idea like losing weight with laxatives either!

I tried losing weight WITH exercise and calorie restriction for most of my life and it was practically impossible! Not that it can't be done, but I found that trying to lose weight by eating less calories and using more calories took most of my attention for practically the whole day. I'd spend so much time and effort working at it and worrying about it and the results never seemed equal to the amount of work I was putting in!

Personally, I got damn sick and tired of paying attention to figuring out how many calories everything I ate and drank contained. It's too time consuming and it just didn't seem right to me that it was "the only way" to lose weight. Does it seem right to you?

The idea that the only way to lose weight is to "burn more calories than you consume" is not true. It is not the only way. Unfortunately, it's difficult to change that idea in our minds because so many people think that it is true and it has been hammered into our minds for so long and with so much force that we can't think straight on the subject any more!

Furthermore, there is another false idea that is very common, and that is that if you lose weight, then you'll be healthy. FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE! It's the other way around. A healthy weight depends on a healthy body, and when people learn what the body actually requires to be healthy, specifically what healthy nutrition is and adjust their diets accordingly, they naturally lose weight - without exercise.

Losing weight without exercise depends first on realizing that the "calories in, calories out" method is not the most effective way to shed excess pounds. That idea assumes that all types of food are basically equal, and the only difference is "how many calories" does it have?

That equation is flawed simply because of the fact that different types of food are handled by the body (metabolized) in very different ways. The different nutrients we consume - protein, carbohydrate, fats and water - all serve different functions in the body, not simply fuel (calories) for energy production.

Check out this article on calorie restriction at Wikipedia for an enlightening look at the origins of this theory!

A word here about exercise. The purpose of exercise is not to burn calories and lose weight. The purpose of exercise is to improve health. Exercise is physical activity that is focused on training or developing the body for the sake of health. There are 4 different types of exercise that improve how the body functions, and they all contribute to having a body that works well. That exercise helps us look better too is a bonus!

Losing weight without exercise can be accomplished by healthy, low-carbohydrate eating. It will work best when old, ineffective ideas of counting calories and weird fad diets are thrown out and an attitude of becoming knowlegeable on what the body actually needs and runs on to be healthy and fit is adopted.

There are several components to really understanding what "healthy eating" is. The most basic factor that impacts health and weight is the pH balance of the body, so learn what that is as one of the first things you do. The pH of the body is affected by what you consume, so learning what keeps your pH balanced and adjusting your diet accordingly is going to have a tremendous impact on your health, including your weight. If you're really interested in losing weight without exercise, this is vital to understand and use in your life.

Healthy eating means knowing what foods provide optimum nutrition and which foods don't. Basic nutrition data and the nutrition of foods, plus healthy eating guidelines will get you on the road to knowing what is healthy and why it's healthy! An excellent resource on healthy foods and cooking is The World's Healhiest Foods.

As far as a low-carbohydrate lifestyle, you can get a good overview at About.com's Low Carb Diets. In a nutshell, the reason low-carbohydrate diets are effective is because the body uses both fat and carbohydrate for fuel. When there are a lot of carbohydrates in the diet, especially refined carbs like sugar and flour, the body has plenty of fast burning "fuel" and doesn't need to go to its fuel in storage, which is fat.

One last note about losing weight without exercise, or losing weight period. Water is crucial to the body in order to metabolize fat. The health benefit of water includes fat metabolism in addition to a great number of health benefits and drinking enough water is part of healthy nutrition.

Cheers,
BB

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