Most overweight people starting to lose weight suffer from fatigue and can't exercise. I explain to them that a calorie has two places to go in the body. You want your calories to supply energy to your cells and get into the cells through the action of insulin. But, if you are eating too many carbs and have resistance to the insulin (Pillar #1), then too many carb calories are shunted to triglycerides and stored as fat. This leaves you tired chronically, chronically hungry and overeating. When you begin to reduce your intake of carbs, and get your insulin working again to move the calories into the cells, then your energy will actually rise despite eating less carbohydrates. Then exercise is possible. People will often say to me they can't understand why eating less and losing weight actually happens this way. I hope understand this now.
Exercise will burn fat to make more muscle and will also make your muscles more sensitive to insulin, helping you use carbohydrates properly. Regular exercise also will increase testosterone levels and can improve endorphin levels in the brain. This neurotransmitter helps you cope with stress and pain and increase your good feelings.
But what exercise? Aerobics does not burn fat fast enough for the time invested in my experience. I recommend Dr. Sear's PACE system as one of the few proven methods of burning fat with exercise using only 20 minutes or less per day. His eBook on the PACE system is available for purchase and download here. He also now has a DVD showing the system on this page
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I often find people having problems scheduling their exercise into their daily routine. One suggestion I have is to look at your day's routine and find a time when you are always doing the same things in a row, be that on arising in the morning or after work or whenever. If you have a set routine that you follow at the same time every day, this may be the easiest time to insert one more step, namely exercise. With Dr. Sears' PACE taking only 15-20 minutes, it should be easier to follow his program daily than going for a walk for an hour.
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