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Exercising but Gaining Weight
Exercise has innumerable health benefits, but losing weight may not be among them. A provocative new study shows that a substantial number of people who take up an exercise regimen wind up heavier afterward than they were at the start, with the weight gain due mostly to extra fat, not muscle. But the study also finds, for the first time, that one simple strategy may improve people’s odds of actually dropping pounds with exercise.
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Rules I personally stick to:
1. Don't drink sugared drinks like pop or juices. Stick to water or something with low sugar content, preferably 10% of what's in the standard pop/juice drink.
2. Don't be a lazy slob and eat junk food all day, you would be amazed at how awesome real food tastes.
3. Avoid any food that is processed (so no TV dinners), cooking your own food is best. No matter what people tell you, wholesome ingredients are not as expensive as you may think.
4. Don't pig out on snacks like chips, chocolates or candy when you're hungry. Its far better to eat another small home made meal instead.
Its really that simple! Sugar is your enemy, NOT fat. Sugar is in everything with the junk food label attached to it. You can still eat like a king and loose/maintain a healthy weight, just don't eat the cheaply made garbage produced for mass consumption by companies that don't give a shit about you. The fatter you are, the more depressed you are and the cycle of buying edible trash continues.
In reality, exercise is responsible for a small part of weight loss regimens. Having said that don't avoid it entirely as its healthy for you and you should do it to feel better and stay healthy but don't automatically assume that you will loose weight because you started running. Focus on the stuff you put in your mouth!
Great rules to live by, and welcome to snapzu! I would just like to add that the price difference of buying fresh ingredients and cooking them yourself may seem high at first because what you buy is never just for one serving (like a meal at mcdonalds). These ingredients can literally make a whole pot of something that can last 3-4 sittings, pasta can be amazingly good for you at a fraction of the cost people pay for it at restaurants with arguably better ingredients! Also... a while back I found out that reheated pasta can be better for you, so that's also a plus!
As they used to say,when you exercise, you are working up an appetite.
What you eat when you work it up is a whole other question :D
Bad luck brian: Starts exercising, running 10k weekly - gains weight.