Have you Ever been worried for the extra weight you have been gaining recently? You are eating the same food and yet, no one knows why, you are gaining an extra pound every week. What could be the reason? Or you just fasted for 7 whole days a month ago and yet the weight seems to go up than what it was earlier? What is happening to your body? This article will acquaint you with some of the craziest facts about weight loss and exercise and how a diet effects your body. Read on.

Fact 1: Muscles or fats?

Researches have shown than muscles, however lean they may be, burn a lot more calorie than fats do. In fact, it burns as much as 17 times more calories than its counterpart. Therefore, regular exercise can increase the percentage of muscles in your body increasing your body’s metabolism.

Fact 2: Fasting can gain weight

Fasting have significant effect on weight loss as long as it is done the right way. Fasting means taking only a limited amount of calorie per day but instead, this is a very common belief that fasting means eating only certain times a day. This may be partially true but if at that certain times, you eat more calories than you need, the extra calorie will be stored as fat in your body leading to weight gain.

Fact 3: Run or Walk?

A lot of you may get confused and often misinterpret the effects of running and walking. Running can, obviously, affect your body’s calorie expenditure but to a surprise, walking burns more calories. Shocked? Well, to be precise, brisk walking. Taking as many as a 100 steps per minute walking can push your body into ketosis, an extremely fast fat burning process. Therefore, a few minutes of brisk walking can significantly reduce your fat than jogging or running.

Fact 4: Amount of food or number of calories?

Neither. Yes, if you are looking forward to lose significant weight, more than the amount or food or the number of calories, you should be more concentrated on the mixture of food ingredients. Your food should have so much percentage of protein, so much carbs and so much of X and Y nutrients. Based on your body type, the food may vary but the bottom line is that having a well-balanced healthy diet can help you lose weight significantly.

Start a journal and record your food intake every day. You will understand your dietary needs in a week’s time.