why exercise is not the best way to lose weight.

while government agencies as well as food companies continue to present exercise as the complete solution of obesity, there is sixty study supports that exercise is just useless when it come to losing weight.

to understand why is it wrong, one has to understand the major ways where the body spend energy, as illustrated in this image the are 3 main ways our body burn calories:

1- resting metabolism: that is how much energy your body burns for basic functioning ,just to keep you alive.

2- thermic effect of food: which is how much energy required to breakdown food.

3- physical activity: which is any movement you do, which only account for 10-30 % of your daily calories burn.

 so, you can say why do not increase physical activity ?!

that is the problem, while you can increase the burning by physical activity your body just compensate it with reducing the resting metabolism portion.

your body simply adapted to it with the same amount of calories burned.

in addition, exercise create problem of it’s own.
you can raise your activity but it will increase your appetite which in turn will lead you to double the amounts you eat.
it is called compensatory behaviors: while you can go for a run before breakfast it will lead you to double you food potions.
hence, you just burn the same amount of calories ,beside you are eating more which will cause opposite result.
but then how do we lose weight ? do you have to give up to obestiy?
NO, the most effective way to lose weight is by controlling food intake.
there are many approaches to this ,if you interested read the next article:
approaches for losing weight