Is exercise directly useful to dieters?

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 17:47:05 GMT, (Jayjay) wrote:

Mu said something? I wouldn't know...

Well, then you won't mind me saying that you cheapen yourself to the
likes of a French whore when you live and play house with a man for
six years and then have the audacity to claim you are in a totally
committed relation****, er, ship.

Lift well, Eat less, Walk fast, Live long.

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:24:14 -0400, jmk
wrote:

3 miles on a treadmill at 4 mph would take 45 minutes. Sitting for 45
minutes is 51 calories according to CaloriesPerHour. Walking for 45
minutes at 4 mph is is 257 so the difference, as Blue Mu_n said, is
roughly 200 calories.

Isn't that about 1/2 pound a week?

If you sit on the couch EVERYDAY AND walk three miles EVERYDAY and
nothing else changes including your diet.

Let's see, if a pound is 3500
calories it would take 1750 for half a pound -- and you burn an
additional 1400 calories that's not quite half a pound -- the rate is
about 1.5 pounds every four weeks -- certainly a positive trend!

Certainly is. See above.

I'm not against exercise, hell, I'm a trainer. I'm simply tired of
hearing how important exercise, how vitally crucial it is to weight
loss.

Most folks lose weight without exercise and that remains a fundamental
truth.

Lift well, Eat less, Walk fast, Live long.

On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 20:18:07 +0100, Vance Roos
wrote:

Is exercise really useful to dieters?
I am asking if exercise is really useful in helping the metabolism of
a dieter in burning off fat or prevemting it being laid down.

There is medical data which saids that if one exercises fast enough to
get the heart pumping to eighty percent of it's max safe beat for
twenty minutes or long it will increase one's metabolism for up to six
hours after the exercise and this increase in your metabolism will
burn more calories from your body than if you did not exercise.

But personally I think of Cholesterol as being something you might
think more towards when you consider including exercise in your diet.

If you are overweight. Then it can be assumed that you may have been
eating saturated fats to the extent that it has put some cholesterol
in your veins. (plugging them up) And from what my doctor has told me.
One can lessen their diet intake of saturated fats and stop the
increase of your cholesterol level. But diet alone will not decrease
the cholesterol in your veins. Exercise will.

If you are or have been overweight you need to add some exercise to
your life to help you clear out those veins from cholesterol buildup.

This can happen too anyone even if they are considered young.

I have four female members with in my family (all cousins) who died
from cholesterol before any of them were twenty five years old.

It is a real silent killer. It will not give you any signs that it is
in you or what level of danger you are currently in.

Do the exercise. Your body will know what to do with it.

Monte

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 07:33:15 +0100, (janice) wrote:

I'm in no doubt about the many, many benefits of exercise,
particularly as we get older, although as I've posted here before all
my experience is that it has very little impact on my ability to lose
weight.

One time, I was on a diet. And I was doing alright except for a few
hours each night before I went to bed. I would sit and watch t.v. and
the hunger pain was just too much to bare. I did not want to eat. I
wanted to lose the weight. I got up from the couch one evening as I
could not sit there and feel that hunger pain. I went out the door and
took a one hour walk.
The walking either stopped my hunger or I did not think of it
intensely as my walking distracted my mind.,
Either way walking did help me lose weight. I took me a way from the
food in the house. Smile.

Monte