Yes you will lose a few pounds but then you notice that you gain those pounds back and a few more.

Exercising alone cannot keep the weight off of you.  You must have a life style change and the most important aspect of this is, Nutrition!

Nutrition is the process of nourishing or being nourished.  It is the process by which we assimilate food and use if for growth and for replacement tissue.

Simply put nutrition- a source of materials to nourish the body

It has to do with what you eat as your body requires certain things to maintain  healthy growth.

Let’s face it a candy bar can fill us up, but what does it do for us?  A can of high sugar pop can fill us up but again what is it doing for our bodies.

Now good nutrition can help prevent diseases and it also promotes health.  There are six categories of nutrients the body needs in fact must have from the food you eat?

You body must have: Protein, carbohydrates, fat, fibers, vitamins and minerals and of course water.

Did you know that no matter how much your exercise, if your body is not getting the right nutritions it will store fat?

1. Protein: supplies amino acids to build and maintain body tissue that is healthy.
2. Fat: supplies amino acids that maintain and build healthy body tissue.
3. Carbohydrates: are the main sources your body needs for energy.
4. Dietary Fiber: found in vegetable, fruits, nuts an whole grains
5. Vitamins: organic substance that are present in food and are required in small amount for the regulation of metabolism and maintenance of normal growth.
6. Minerals: are the building blocks that make up muscle, tissue and bones.
7. Water: rids the body of waste materials and regulates body temperature and transports nutrients to our cells.

If you are not shedding inches or seeing a difference it is not due to your exercise program, but rather to your eating program.

To lose weight, you have to cut down on the number of calories you consume and start burning more calories each day. Calories are the amount of energy in the food you eat. For example, foods high in fat and sugar are also typically high in calories.

If you eat more calories than your body uses, the extra calories will be stored as body excess fat.  And your body will store this fat up as it feels deprived of the correct nutrients.
A pound of fat = 3,500 calories, so to lose 1 pound of fat you have to eat less than 3,500 calories and you have to burn off “exercise”.  You burn of calories by exercising or just by being more active.  However the trick here is not to eat 3,500 of “junk” but to eat nutritious food that your body will turn into fat burning muscle.

The best way to lose weight and keep it off is to eat great nutritional food and burn off calories.  Also if you cut 250 calories from your diet each day and exercise enough to burn off 250 calories, that adds up to 500 fewer calories in one day. If you do this for 7 days, you can lose 1 pound of fat in a week.  And you are healthy with lots of energy as your body is getting what it needs.

You need your body to be healthy to work with your mind set to lose weight! So get cracking with that nutrition and start watching some changes happen!