Staying Healthy While Losing Weight
Staying healthy while losing weight is the primary
objective of any over weight, or worse obese people to
achieve a healthier state of well being. Also, the
dilemma of being able to balance the healthy state
without compromising the rate of weight loss and vice
versa is usually confused as to how it should be done.
Starvation Misconception
Chances are, some of weight losers become desperate
and try drastic changes for losing weight that they
expose themselves to a non nutritive state, leading to
malnutrition, and complications arising from skipping
meals such as ulcers and nausea. On the other hand, a
consciously focused individual on staying healthy may
forget that his primary goal is to shed the unwanted
fat and exercise vigorously and would find himself not
losing those pounds, all because of added muscle mass.
Such confusion may eventually cause the individual to
lose interest in maintaining and enduring the current
healthy practice and resort back to unhealthy
lifestyle with a less hassle maintenance.
Overworking The Body
Another misconception regarding staying healthy while
losing weight is that it can be done faster with more
exercise per day. Though this may hold true, our body
can only take as much work before we tire out.
Intensifying it abruptly, hoping that the added jolt
in workload would hasten the shedding process, may
trigger a rebound effect on the brain, for the brain
has a survival mechanism that triggers a slow down of
metabolism if the body is subjected to a high caloric
consumption. Furthermore, complications like muscle
injuries and joint sprains may occur as these are
subjected to a load without having them adapt to it
gradually.
Muscle Atrophy
In addition to the slow down of metabolism as a
rebound effect, there is also another detrimental
outcome for the body to preserve as much energy
reserves [read: fat deposits], that instead of burning
up the fatty deposits, muscle cells are rather used up
instead. This is because protein is easier to
synthesize into smaller components for energy sourcing
than fat. Also, fat has larger energy content per unit
than a protein, therefore allowing the body to
efficiently store energy at a greater ratio. Such
phenomenon is called muscle atrophy. With Muscle
atrophy, a person is then subject to double time in
gaining back the lost weight in muscles and at the
same time keeping t he fat deposit levels low.
Couple With Exercise
Staying healthy while losing weight requires both a
lessened caloric intake calculated and intended to the
desired body weight requirement and coupled with
adequate exercise. Usually, the first two weeks will
have no significant results as the body will still
have to adapt and change its metabolic paradigm with
the new stressor. After which, significant weight
drops would occur from the start of the third week of
consistent losing weight. After which, the rate at
which the mass sheds off gradually slows down until
the desired weight is achieved.
Staying healthy while losing weight takes time to
achieve. There are neither shortcuts nor easy way outs
for this two to work harmoniously together. For a
successful healthy status while losing weight, It is
important to understand that the two should be well
balanced so that not one of the aspects try to out
hunger the other and cause a failure in the desired
objective.
Staying healthy while losing weight is the primary
objective of any over weight, or worse obese people to
achieve a healthier state of well being. Also, the
dilemma of being able to balance the healthy state
without compromising the rate of weight loss and vice
versa is usually confused as to how it should be done.
Starvation Misconception
Chances are, some of weight losers become desperate
and try drastic changes for losing weight that they
expose themselves to a non nutritive state, leading to
malnutrition, and complications arising from skipping
meals such as ulcers and nausea. On the other hand, a
consciously focused individual on staying healthy may
forget that his primary goal is to shed the unwanted
fat and exercise vigorously and would find himself not
losing those pounds, all because of added muscle mass.
Such confusion may eventually cause the individual to
lose interest in maintaining and enduring the current
healthy practice and resort back to unhealthy
lifestyle with a less hassle maintenance.
Overworking The Body
Another misconception regarding staying healthy while
losing weight is that it can be done faster with more
exercise per day. Though this may hold true, our body
can only take as much work before we tire out.
Intensifying it abruptly, hoping that the added jolt
in workload would hasten the shedding process, may
trigger a rebound effect on the brain, for the brain
has a survival mechanism that triggers a slow down of
metabolism if the body is subjected to a high caloric
consumption. Furthermore, complications like muscle
injuries and joint sprains may occur as these are
subjected to a load without having them adapt to it
gradually.
Muscle Atrophy
In addition to the slow down of metabolism as a
rebound effect, there is also another detrimental
outcome for the body to preserve as much energy
reserves [read: fat deposits], that instead of burning
up the fatty deposits, muscle cells are rather used up
instead. This is because protein is easier to
synthesize into smaller components for energy sourcing
than fat. Also, fat has larger energy content per unit
than a protein, therefore allowing the body to
efficiently store energy at a greater ratio. Such
phenomenon is called muscle atrophy. With Muscle
atrophy, a person is then subject to double time in
gaining back the lost weight in muscles and at the
same time keeping t he fat deposit levels low.
Couple With Exercise
Staying healthy while losing weight requires both a
lessened caloric intake calculated and intended to the
desired body weight requirement and coupled with
adequate exercise. Usually, the first two weeks will
have no significant results as the body will still
have to adapt and change its metabolic paradigm with
the new stressor. After which, significant weight
drops would occur from the start of the third week of
consistent losing weight. After which, the rate at
which the mass sheds off gradually slows down until
the desired weight is achieved.
Staying healthy while losing weight takes time to
achieve. There are neither shortcuts nor easy way outs
for this two to work harmoniously together. For a
successful healthy status while losing weight, It is
important to understand that the two should be well
balanced so that not one of the aspects try to out
hunger the other and cause a failure in the desired
objective.
