Burning Calories a Must for Weight Loss

Whatever the reason for the person starting any attempt to lose weight, one of the main problems that will be encountered is sustaining the desire to lose weight. Whether the initial cause was medical necessity, human vanity, or whatever, people trying to lose weight will eventually find their weight loss motivation just a touch lacking. More often than not, the reason that people suddenly lose the motivation is because of time. The diet plan isn’t something they can deal with in the long-term, or that the exercise plan takes up too much of their time. The reasons can vary from person to person, but eventually, it comes down to time. One of the most common ones involves the whole “it isn’t fast enough” problem. That is, people lose heart and weight loss motivation when whatever it is they’re doing doesn’t drop the pounds within the amount of time they wanted it to.


What most people don’t realize is that they might not be realizing their own mistakes. Take, for example, people who exercise to lose weight. These people engage in several hours a week in some form of physical activity, whether it be gym training or some sort of sport. For as long as there is a regular psychical activity they wish to engage in, and the weight loss motivation to push them to do that, then they’re going to be doing it. However, the problem lies in the fact that some people find that all the exercise they do isn’t really doing all that much good. In some cases, the exercise doesn’t actually help at all. There is a chance that the fault lies in the exercise plan itself, but more often than not, people are simply eating more calories or foods than they’re losing in their workouts. In almost all cases of this happening, the person doesn’t even realize this is the case.


The core of this problem stems from people being unaware of just how many calories they’re really burning when they exercise. The average person can burn about 1,000 calories for every mile he walks, but a typical candy bar can contain 3,000 calories and the average pizza about 6,000. While more and more people interested in fitness realize how many calories are in food, many of them fail to properly know just how many calories they happen to be burning after any given activity. As such, while they believe they’re working off any excess calories from what they’ve eaten, the reality is that they’re just barely putting a dent into the numbers. The fact that some people simply don’t have the time to work out long enough to drop the calories is another factor.


Of course, this doesn’t really give anyone a whole lot of confidence when one considers that there appears to be some people who seem to just drop pounds like nobody’s business. There could be any number of factors behind this, such as genetics, gender (some studies suggest men can burn calories faster than women can), and available time. Some people with the time to exercise heavily do so, but conveniently don’t tell just how long they spent in the gym to trim down their figures. Some even deny being in the gym, citing little more than just everyday activities as their “secret” to losing weight.