Your priority should be on your health and everything else
will fall into place. If you focus on improving your health, it is more likely
that you will stick with it. Instead of constantly weighing yourself and going
crazy because you did not lose that pound you were suppose to.
A study published in 2005 (1) reported that a lot of factors
can prevent you from losing weight with an exercise program. But if you focus
on fitness and improving your health profile first, it may increase your
chances of fat loss.
And it has been reported that fit overweight women (2) and
men (3) have a better metabolic profile and live longer than their unfit but
normal weight counterparts.
So get off the weight scale and focus on health first. It
will prevent a lot of problems and it will be a stepping stone to fat loss.
1. Boutcher SH, Factors that may
impede the weight loss response to
exercise-based interventions. Obesity reviews 2009; 10:671-680
2. Karelis AD,
The metabolically healthy but obese individual presents a favorable
inflammation profile. J Clin Endocrinol
Metab. 2005; 90:
4145–4150.
3.
McAuley PA, Obesity paradox and
cardiorespiratory fitness in 12,417 male veterans aged 40 to 70 years. Mayo
Clin Proc. 2010; 85(2): 115-121
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