by Anna Jones, Chief Editor
Most dieters want to lose weight for a couple of reasons: they want to look and feel
more attractive, or they want to get healthier.
And if they’re being honest with themselves, in our weight obsessed society, most
dieters are probably more motivated by a desire to look good then they are by health
reasons.
However, there’s certainly nothing wrong with wanting both. And to truly look good and
be healthy, you can’t JUST lose weight. Thin, flabby, wobbly, and easily out of breath is
neither an attractive nor healthy state of being.
So you need to exercise regularly while you are losing weight.
Now, here’s the problem with crash diets and exercise: they end up being mutually
exclusive. Nearly impossible to do at the same time.
Most diets call for a drastic reduction in calories. This will leave you feeling exhausted
and it will be very hard for you to summon up the energy to exercise.
This is especially true if you are on a low carbohydrate diet.
After all, what do athletes eat right before a marathon or any other endurance type
sport, where they will need energy and stamina? That’s right, they eat carbohydrates.
When you exercise, your body needs to be able to immediately access carbohydrates to
burn for energy. The body burns carbohydrates as fuel for the first 20 minutes of
exercise before it starts accessing your fat stores, according to The Physician And
Sports Medicine Journal.
If you are on a low carbohydrate diet, believe me, you will not even last that 20 minutes
to get to that fat burning zone. You will not have the energy.
To be able to last that 20 minutes, you would need to eat complex carbohydrates. We’re
not saying that you should scarf down a candy bar or donut right before exercise; those
are simple carbohydrates that are metabolized very quickly and send your blood sugar
shooting up and then crashing down.
Most athletes or even people who are just going for a jog or bike ride benefit if they eat
something like a granola bar or a piece of fruit an hour or two before exercising. Those
carbohydrates slowly release energy and sustain you so that you can exercise longer.
So when you consider a weight loss method, you are going to want to pick one where
you will have enough energy to exercise as you lose weight.
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