Comments on: Lose 1 pound of Fat a week – Activity

By: Elliot Wilson

Elliot Wilson — Fri, 23 May 2008 06:12:49 +0000

Thanks for your reply Bruce, regardless, I would always advocate both a healthy diet AND regular exercise!

By: Bruce Bair

Bruce Bair — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:44:35 +0000

Elliot,
Research has shown that those who combine exercise and diet not only lose the weight, part of the goal, but are 90% effective at keeping it off. Those who lose weight by diet alone are 10% effective or successful at keeping it off.

You are correct in saying that diet is all you need to take off weight. Exercise has an effect on the brain (it seems on the endocannaboid system of the brain) that affects satiety and cortisol production. Both are tied up with weight gain.

I am not an expert in this area of physiology, but the combination is more effective than either alone.

By: Elliot Wilson

Elliot Wilson — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:11:58 +0000

“Diet alone is only 10% effective…” I’m not sure what you mean by that statement… I would have said that diet only can be all you need to lose weight. If you want to speed up results though you’ll need to add exercise to the mix as well.

By: Bruce Bair

Bruce Bair — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:30:39 +0000

Blaine,
Wow! That is quite the workout! Do you have some advice on ways to get up to 1000 cal per week when you haven’t done much regularly. For the person who goes to the local fair and walks all day and is sore the next. Getting able to exercise and doing it regularly is not what the majority of our citizens do. I know you have a running blog. Any advice for those of us who have not accomplished as much physically as you have?

By: Blaine Moore

Blaine Moore — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:29:37 +0000

I’ve been known to burn 3000-4000 calories in one workout before. Then again, I’ve also been known to go running up and down mountains non-stop for 4 to 5 hours at a time.