What to do if you gain weight after weight loss exercise

Some obese people do not see any weight loss despite exercising a certain amount every day. Is it that exercise is ineffective for weight loss, or is there another reason? Why don’t I lose weight even though I exercise every day? Which part of the process is wrong? In fact, the weight loss effect of exercise is not immediate, but gradual, and exercise is also very beneficial to your health. Let’s take a look at the reasons below.

According to expert analysis, the human body energy consumed by exercise for weight loss includes two parts: one is consumed by daily activities, and the other is consumed by additional exercise.

Xiao Zhou is a busy office worker. The pressure from work makes him eat a lot every time he gets home, and his weight increases slowly. But when he was looking through last year's autumn clothes again to prepare to wear them, he found that his fat body could no longer fit into his old clothes.

So he made up his mind to exercise regularly and in a certain amount after get off work every day, and he was determined to lose weight.

But a week passed, and every time I stood on the digital scale, I didn't see any weight loss. She began to doubt whether doing about an hour of aerobic exercise every day was effective.

Let the experts analyze why Xiao Zhou couldn’t lose weight even though he exercised every day.

Experts say that a person's total daily physical activity consumption is generally composed of two parts, including the heat energy consumption of daily body activities and the heat energy consumption of extra body movement. Xiao Zhou exercises every day, and his daily activities may consume a lot of energy, but he replenishes the energy through diet later, so his weight will not drop so quickly.

But one thing is certain, that is, exercise to lose weight is a scientific way to lose weight. It not only exercises the body, but is also very effective in burning body calories.

Exercise consumption generally consists of the following two types.

a. Daily activities consumption

Depending on each person's work and habits, the amount of daily activity is different, and the calories consumed are naturally different. Generally speaking, people who do manual labor consume more calories per day than those who do mental labor. For people who do mental work, the calories consumed by their daily physical activities are about 20% of their metabolic rate.

If you are more active in a day or consume more energy at work, you will consume additional calories.

b. Extra exercise consumption

Many people narrowly understand extra exercise consumption as the calories consumed during exercise, but this is actually wrong. Additional exercise consumption not only includes the calories consumed directly by exercise, but also includes the calories consumed by increased metabolism due to physical exercise, as well as the calories consumed by increasing the body's basal metabolic rate due to long-term exercise.

The benefits of exercise for physical health and weight loss are well known. Exercise can bring oxygen to all parts of the body, and because exercise promotes the body's cardiopulmonary function, it can enhance the body's metabolism in the short term and keep this high metabolic level throughout the day.

If a person does aerobic exercise for about an hour every day, this higher metabolic level will continue throughout the day. The rate of increasing metabolism through exercise is very large, up to 50%, which is very effective in consuming body calories.

Therefore, when exercising, don't just focus on the calories consumed and think that it will have little or no significant help in losing weight. The calories burned during exercise are not just those consumed directly, but also those consumed indirectly. These numbers add up to a large amount of calories burned.

Finally, the editor needs to remind you that you should not think that losing weight through exercise is not as fast as losing weight through dieting. You can gradually increase your daily exercise from 30 minutes to 1 hour, and you will get satisfactory results. At the same time, you will also find that your body becomes stronger and more energetic than before, which are advantages that cannot be matched by dieting. Don't be discouraged if you don't lose weight for a while. Muster up your confidence and stick to your weight loss to the end.