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Diet and Exercise is necessary to lose weight with any diet program. The older you get, the harder it is to maintain your weight simply by restricting what you eat. A healthy low carbohydrate diet combined with exercise is the most effective way to lose weight.
When exercise is combined with the diet, the amount of weight you lose will consist primarily of fat, whereas without exercise, there could be a loss of lean body tissue. Regular exercise also helps muscle cells take up glucose (sugar) from the blood stream and use it for energy more efficiently. Thus, exercise may lower one's risk of developing type 2 diabetes, which is common especially in obese people over the age 40. Increasing physical activity should be tailored to individual needs, preferences, and lifestyle.
Walking is one of the easiest and most convenient exercises to lose weight that an overweight and/or an obese individual can begin to practice. Walking offers a very low risk of complications or athletic injuries. Walking is an excellent way to lose body fat, especially when combined with a weight loss diet. Go to the Safe Exercise page for more information and tips about low-impact exercises
The body does not start burning fat stores until about thirty minutes of activity. Walking briskly for at least a half hour a day not only consumes a couple hundred calories, but it also boosts your metabolic rate for the rest of the day, giving you a better chance to burn fat and lose weight even after you have finished your exercise. In addition, you are more likely to maintain any weight loss you achieve if you incorporate walkng in your daily routine.
A low carbohydrate diet can't lower blood glucose alone. However, if a low carbohydrate diet is combined with exercise to lose weight, the two acting synergistically together could possibly postpone and even prevent the development of type 2 diabetes and facilitate the weight loss process; especially in people who are overweight and whose bodies have already started having trouble metabolizing glucose. |
