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ARE WE TOO OBSESSED WITH DIETS  &  EXERCISE? 

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Unless you are from a different planet, it is impossible to escape the barrage of information about different diets, and not notice that fitness has recently been quite a trend.  People have tried or been trying Atkins, Paleo, Keto, Vegetarian, Vegan, low fat, high fat, South Beach, Cabbage, Weight Watchers, Zoom, Noom and the topic of a diet might not be as big as Covid, but probably bigger than anything else.  As a society, we have been also working out more than ever, yet are not getting any healthier. Chronic conditions, obesity, mental illnesses, and addictions are in fact all-time high these days.

 
It is also worth pointing out that just because someone is skinny, it does not mean they are well and healthy.  Even though body fat is one of the biggest culprits of inflammation, and should not be ignored, eating disorders are deadly and debilitating too, so let’s not confuse someone’s weight with wellness. Anorexia, bulimia, but also unhealthy obsession with healthy foods called orthorexia, are on the rise amongst both women but also men, and let’s not forget about the newish term - skinny fat.

 
Let’s also not confuse fitness with wellness. There are many people who make exercise an important part of their daily routine, but they often turn it from what is supposed to be healthy into an unhealthy obsession.  One thing it is to be kind to yourself and to love, respect and care for yourself, but another to obsess.  Even though healthier than drinking, gambling, or addiciton to sex, when you exercise too much and are not training for the Olympics, you are probably using it as some sort of an escape as well. 

 
Finally, when you use exercise to lose weight, because you are extremely motivated to do so, you might not be realizing that you might be in fact creating a vicious cycle.  People who use exercise to lose weight often become a slave to their workouts and then eat more after all anyways.  While exercise is a way to maintain weight, It is a quite useless when it comes to weight loss as we gain 100% of our weight from the food we eat, and that one hour on a treadmill can be nulled by eating something in a five minutes or less.

 
So why am I writing all that?  Maybe we should stop thinking about diets, and fitness, but about our holistic wellness instead?  Truth is that while many people focus on weight loss, they do it often with disregard for their health.  All their motivation and self-discipline is used up on creating unhealthy relationships with food and exercise that often stem from unhealthy relationships people have with themselves.  So how do you turn things around and how do you get not only skinny or fit, but first of all well?  Stay tuned to find out or request a free wellness consult. 
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​TRUE or FALSE? EXERCISE BOOSTS METABOLISM.

3/10/2021

 
If you google the question: “ Does exercise boost metabolism? ”, you will see thousands of articles that it does. One of the first ones that popped up said: 'Cardiovascular exercise (also known as aerobic exercise) is anything that involves or improves your body’s oxygen consumption. Examples include cycling, jogging, sprinting, skipping, rowing and walking. These types of exercise boost your metabolism quite simply because they require additional calories to perform'.

Thanks to these kind of articles, our population did start to exercise more. I myself used to exercise anywhere between 5-10 hours a week, in addition to being  active almost all day long. Jogging, cycling, swimming were a part of my life for many years in addition to the 10,000 steps someone who invented the first pedometer came up with because it sounded good and not because it was backed up by science and the idea has caught on with everyone, so did with with me.

I never had weight issues, but worked out hard, and my diet, even though I now know that it was mediocre ( the recommended low fat and high carb ) was still better than the Standard American Diet that 60 or 70% of people are on.  

Back to the exercise, even with more exercise, at least people in the US have unfortunately gotten fatter. One in 3 Americans is obese and 70% are OVERweight. Part of the remaining 30% are the so-called skinny fat (that is another topic).
 
WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN ?
Short answer is that it is not the lack of exercise that has made people fatter, but the food people eat. It is the food that we are addicted to  because the so called food scientists that big companies hire make us want more and more of it.  Sugar can be more addictive than cocaine (studies prove), so OUR POPULATION IS BIOCHEMICALLY DEPENDENT ON THOSE PROCESSED FOODS. Some of us exercise more to burn it,  and constantly fight weight gain. NOT A WAY TO LIVE and BE HEALTHY. Life is all about finding balance and health, and when you are preoccupied with burning calories all day long, so you do not gain weight, it becomes unhealthy.  You want to eat and exercise for health. Once you start addressing your health, pounds will shed too and for good.

BACK TO THE QUESTION
There is am anthropologist, Herman Pontzner who have traveled the world studying the metabolism of different people. His findings were published in his book “Burn” ( Penguin ) that blows the lid off how we really burn calories, lose weight, and become healthy. He explains why it’s so hard to burn calories through exercise and why extreme dieting is so dangerous.  If you read the book, you will find the following information shocking as it is completely different from what we had known, believed and learned as even fitness professionals ( if you are one ).

Pontzner has found that EXERCISE DOES NOT INCREASE OUR  METABOLISM AT ALL.  He claims the number of calories we burn per day stays pretty consistent regardless of activity level; the average 9- year old burns about 2000 calories a day, and adult over age 50 about 2,500, depending primarily on body size.  That’s pretty much your daily calorie budget.  When you exercise more, however, your body lowers the number of calories it burns performing other functions, such as inflammation or hormone production. So the number of calories you burn per day — your metabolism — remains constant, whether you work out or not, but EXERCISE IS SO IMPORTANT FOR OTHER REASONS.

 When you exercise, your inflammation levels go down. Because your body is spending your energy budget on exercise, it spends less on creating chronic inflammation. Think of inflammation as a luxury — it’s what your body will do with extra calories if you have them.  And inflammation contributes to most of the diseases of aging. So, YES! YOU DO WANT TO EXERCISE, BUT FOR DIFFERENT REASONS. YOU WANT TO EXERCISE TO AGE LESS AND TO GET SICK LESS.

Finally, so THE answer to the " DOES EXERCISE INCREASE METABOLISM  is “FALSE”
When you exercise a lot, and especially doing the activities as commonly thought of increasing metabolism and the above mentioned rowing, cycling, jogging e.t.c, your body actually goes into a preservation mode. It wants to turn off its metabolism to decrease the risk of starvation (from an evolutionary standpoint).
 
Exercise is for health, but you need to rebrand the way you think of exercise and stop thinking of exercise as a way to successful weight lose. You will not get the most bang out of your buck with long cardio workouts that will only make you more hungry.  I have lived it.  As mentioned before, I used to bike, jog, swim. I  ran marathons, have done triathlons and was on a swimming team for most of my childhood years.  When I suffered injury to my hip, my knees and my foot in my 30ies, I was forced to quit what I had been beating my body down with for years and  even was addicted to. Now,  at 43, I work out 10 times less.   I eat healthier because I do not get as hungry.  I look healthier  and younger.  My life is balanced.  I have completely transformed the way I look at exercise and food, and I love it.  I  can help you do the same. 

​MK

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    I am Marta Kirit, M.Ed and a 42 year old mom  of 2 that  has always been passionate about fitness and helping people get in shape as a fitness trainer but  have always known that diets and exercise programs are not enough because they do not address the mind, and that people needed more than exercise and diet program to reach their goals and sustain them long term. Fitness training rarely addresses the mind or emotional aspects of wellness or individual differences.  When pregnant with my now 6.5 year old daughter, I took health, wellness and anti-aging to a different level, and shifted my  fitness oriented mind and lifestyle into all aspects of wellness for a more balanced,  and healthier life. I do not spend a lot of time working out like I used to,  but I make sure I address other aspects of wellness as they are equally important. This challenge is a result of years of research that has proven to work for myself and others.  I am quite positive it will be most successful , and least expensive, program for many people as well as  long term too.   

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