Before an individual can make the change to incorporate new strenuous activities they should first change their eating habits. What you put in your mouth contributes more to weight loss than how hard you workout. Once eating habits have been changed, then and only then will you see the results you would like to in the gym. 

Many people start exercising and do not pay attention to what they eat or they make both an exercise change and eating change at the same time. This usually ends in failure. The increase in activity spikes your metabolism and your body tells your brain that you need more food and you eat more negating the effects of your workout.  After your workout it seems you are 100 times hungrier than you ever were before you exercised. You may be able to hold off the temptations for a couple days but I’ve seen it catch up to people time and time again and de-rail their best weight loss efforts.  Exercise has its place, and that place is after you have established proper eating habits and have taken your body to a much healthier state from better food selection. I meet people everyday that express the frustration that their exercise routine is not doing it for them, and many of my clients that I have trained did not see the kind of weight loss results they were looking for from exercise. 

Exercise alone usually does not increase your weight loss. At FIT Medical Weight Loss we have had 2 patients start our weight loss program at the same time both losing 100 pounds within a week of each other. Amazingly one patient worked out 4-5 times a week and the other did not work out significantly. Exercise did not make the one patient lose weight any faster. What made each of them successful in reaching their weight loss goal was what they ate and not how hard they worked out. Exercise is important for many other health benefits and we encourage moderate exercise at FIT Medical Weight Loss but what you eat is more important when it comes to consistent weight loss and finally reaching those weight loss goals.