A varied and balanced diet, combined with exercise, is the best way to lose weight and, consequently, keep it off.
Engaging in physical activity is a basic necessity for human physical and mental well-being and is essential in the fight against a sedentary lifestyle and its harmful effects. For this reason, more and more people are seeking a healthier lifestyle. A varied and balanced diet, combined with physical exercise, is the best way to lose weight and, consequently, keep it off.
Physical exercise is fundamental in achieving and maintaining an ideal weight, by reducing fat mass and increasing and maintaining muscle mass. It also plays an important role in controlling comorbidities associated with excess weight.
What factors can interfere with successful results?
Achieving and maintaining results can only be achieved through a combination of factors, and it is not possible to achieve your goals on just one front. Anyone who eats well but doesn't exercise is unlikely to be able to maintain and stabilize their results. Hence the importance of combining vitamin and mineral balance with adequate and regular physical activity.
In addition to these factors, in order to really balance your weight, you need physiological and hormonal control and stress and emotion management. Physical exercise can once again help with this, as it increases the production of serotonin (a substance that promotes well-being and happiness).
In the case of weight maintenance and management, what should I do?
Once you've lost weight, the goal is to maintain and manage it. To do this successfully, you need to monitor your body weight, plan your meals, count your calories and continue exercising every day, particularly strength training.
This last point is extremely important, since in order to maintain the weight obtained, muscle mass must increase, leading to an increase in energy expenditure throughout the day, making strength training essential.
Self-knowledge of the body and metabolism also helps a lot in achieving results and managing weight.
Thus, a well-planned treatment, adapted to the individual needs of each person, allows for healthy and balanced weight loss, avoiding the "yo-yo phenomenon", and takes into account the long-term maintenance of the weight lost.
Although each case is unique and standardization is not adequate, the combination of these factors makes physical exercise an excellent ally in weight management.
It's perfectly normal to have questions about your body at first. Ask professionals for help. The Teresa Branco Institute offers integrated and specialized support, through an interdisciplinary team that embraces all the dimensions involved so that you can maintain or become healthy. Today more than ever, take care of yourself.
