Good news:
Diet is the strongest influencing factor on weight loss.
Bad news:
Exercise? Not so much:
Exercise not likely to rev up your metabolism - Smart Fitness- msnbc.com Quote:
Melanson says other experts in his field have been “flabbergasted” by the results. “Bottom line is that we once thought that exercise would burn calories, especially fat calories, for a long period after a bout of exercise,” says exercise physiologist Gerald Endress, fitness director for the Duke University Diet and Fitness Center who was not involved in the research. “This does not seem to be the case.”...
The new paper offers additional evidence that exercise does not boost metabolism as much as widely believed, Endress says. In addition to the misperception that exercise greatly hikes fat burning after exercise, there is also the false belief that weight training dramatically increases metabolism by adding muscle, he notes.
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Say what they want, exercise has helped me with my weight loss in very significant ways:
1. When I work out, I'm less inclined to cheat because I don't want to "undo" my hard work.
2. Exercising makes me feel great.
3. Exercising gives me more energy throughout the day, particularly when I exercise early in the AM.