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Do you really need to work out to lose weight?

Do you really have to exercise to lose weight?

In my journey to lose weight, I tried to restrict my calorie intake and not exercise. It's all about a calorie deficit, isn't it?

I noticed that I'd do well in the first half of the day by restricting my food intake to a light breakfast and zero calorie drinks like tea and coffee. What I noticed was that in the evening, I would “reward” myself with a large dinner. 

I started noticing that I would then eat junk food at night so I started going to sleep early to prevent this. Sleeping early helped curb my calorie intake at night but I wasn’t losing any weight. 

I realized I had to exercise. When your goal is weight loss, you have to burn calories. Restricting your movement throughout the day because you are too weak to move or don't want to move around too much out of fear that it will cause you to be hungry is not going to help. Your body needs to burn calories.

By combining calorie counting and exercise, I have lost another 5 pounds and am now down to 168 pounds. 

Why take advice from a chubby chuck? Because you are one too and I have actually lost ten pounds. 

So do you need to exercise? The answer is that you do, if you want to lose weight.

These are some more tips I’ve learned along the way:

  1. If you mess up one day by over eating or skipping the gym, keep going! Do not start over thinking. All is not lost. Even if you are 1,000 calories more than you should and worked out, that still means your totally calorie count for the day will be less than if you hadn't exercised at all. You will also keep your routine and that is half the battle. Working out will make you feel accomplished and less likely to stop working out all together.
  2. Try to go everyday. There will always be days you can't go, you don't have to fight for those days, they will come, life will get in your way. There will definitely be rest days but plan to go everything unless life doesn't permit.
  3. Work your way up. Don't get disappointed if you can only burn 100 calories at first. Just keep going. You will be exercising forever if you want to be fit so don't rush the process.
  4. Try to find a good calorie minimum that you want to burn each time you are in the gym and reach that however you can, even if you walk, as long as you burn the calories, you will be burning calories. 


I'll keep updating you guys! Thanks for reading!

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