The Key to Weight Loss
March 1, 2009 by Cherie Burbach
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Lots of us want to lose weight, and when it’s all sad and done it really isn’t that difficult to do. Let me amend that…. losing weight takes effort and time, and IS hard to do… but the formula to lose weight isn’t rocket science.
As if we needed even more convincing, a new study has determined that eating “heart-healthy, low-calorie foods and exercising is the key to losing weight regardless of levels of protein, fat or carbohydrates.”
Make sense, doesn’t it? Eat a balanced diet that is less in calorie than you eat now. Work out. The pounds will come off. It might not be right away, but they will.
I started an active exercise program Jan 09 and have worked up to 3-4x a week spinning, 2-3x a week wt lifting and 1-2x a week yoga/pilates class. I have lost 15lbs and quite a few inches. I understand that muscle weighs more than fat and that I may have displaced my fat with muscle so my weight hasn’t changed as much as it would if I had not exercised. I still would like to see the scale drop 15-20 more pounds. Do I just have to keep exercising and wait or is there something I could do nutritionally?