does exercise alone help you lose weight?
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w8md medical weight loss centers of America’s
8 things you did not know about diet & weight loss!
Prab R. Tumpati, MD
Amount of calories in pound of fat
❖ 3500!
❖ Is the amount of calories
❖ in one pound of body fat!
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How many miles to walk to lose 1 pound?
❖ 18 mile
❖ Is the distance to walk to lose 1 pound of weight!
A can of soda and walking
❖ 1 glass (can) of soda = 30 mins of walking
-150 cal = 20 lbs/year
Reducing your calorie intake by 150 calories a day is equivalent to approximately 10 pounds in 6 months and 20 pounds in 1 year.
One cookie =10 mins of walking
One small chocolate chip cookie (50 calories) is equival to walking briskly for 10 minutes.
Small cookie and big cookie
• Difference between a large chocolate chip cookie and a small chocolate chip cookie could be about 40 minutes of raking leaves (200 calories).
One donut - one hour of walking
One hour of walking at a moderate pace (20 min/mile) uses about the same amount of energy that is in one jelly filled doughnut (300 calories).
Double burger etc. = 2.5 hours
A double cheeseburger with extra-large fries and a 24 oz. soft drink is equal to running 2½ hours at a 10 min/mile pace (1500 calories).
40% are crouch potatoes
40% of adults in the United States do not participate in any leisure-time physical activity.
Exercise alone is useless for weight loss
❖ Studies have shown that exercise
❖ helps maintain weight but to lose
❖ weight, it is the VERY LOW
❖ CALORIE DIET or LOW CALORIE
❖ DIET that does the trick with or
❖ without exercise
Time Article on Exercise
❖ The fact that exercise alone is useless is well reported both in lay press and scientific community.
❖ Here is an article by time titled “why exercise won't make you thin”
❖ Bally’s fitness admits that exercise alone is not enough for weight loss on their website.
How can W8MD Medical Weight Loss Centers help?
help?
❖ Do not confuse healthy eating or living with weight loss!
❖ In order to lose weight, you need a partnership with a trained weight loss physician to do VERY-LOW-CALORIE-DIET with or without other measures such as medications for appetite suppression, exercise etc. for effective weight loss.
❖ Check out our 52 weeks of weight loss and wellness videos on You Tube
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