Friday, March 13, 2009

weight loss and exercise

Each week will have a certain amount of caloric expenditure. If you have a very busy work week, are basically at your desk and have no time for exercise, you of course will burn off many less calories than if you had the time to hit the gym 4 times that week. If you do not adjust your caloric intake to offset this lack of burnoff, you will have difficulty losing weight, and may in fact, even gain weight that week.

Obviously, in a perfect world, you would have plenty of time to exercise, but things are never perfect so there will be challenging time constraint weeks. Please make sure that you lower your overall caloric intake those weeks and that will help you continue to lose weight despite the lack of exercise.

Certain people have orthopedic limitations that preclude aggressive exercise. I would strongly suggest that you hire for a personal trainer for a few sessions to help you learn how to maximize your caloric burnoff despite the orthpedic problems.

Have a great weekend!

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