Little has been said about using exercise as an adjunct to your fat battle armamentarium. We have chosen a diet plan, be it one that advocates high protein intake or high carbohydrate consumption or any one of a dozen other alternative diet plans. There are surely enough advertisements for gym- joining and muscle building. But somehow for many people like yourself they haven't registered - yet. let us look at what can be added to increase your slimming chances by getting off the couch for a minute (or more).

First let it be said that the actual movements necessary to be called exercise do not burn off a lot of fat. We have read how few calories are burned in the jogging, let us say for half an hour. Precious few. actually. For all that movement you may have taken off the weight that a piece of buttered toast has added to the mid section. Maybe that is the reason little has been said in favor of the exercise adjunct. But let us look beyond the period of the actual exercise moment.

Eminent physiologists tell us that our metabolism is boosted for hours after the event. Hours. Let us repeat part of the Webster definition of metabolism because it is pertinent to this issue. Metabolism - the chemical and physical processes continuously going on in living organisms and cells including the changing of living tissue into waste products and energy. Now let us repeat the above thought. Metabolism is boosted for hours after exercise and it changes fat into waste products.

The author has not seen studies of the measurement of waste product elimination during the boosted metabolism period if any exist. Nevertheless it seems apparent that exercise should be considered valuable to shed those pounds. A plus is that exercise is healthful and enhances the immune system.