Dear Dr. Dan:
I heard a guest on your radio show say that you can lose weight simply by counting calories, but that exercise must be done for 1 and 1/2 hours. Is this correct?
Fred
Dear Fred:
While calories are a factor in weight loss, there are other considerations that cannot be overlooked such as blood sugar regulation, lower hormone levels with aging, food allergies, body-fat ratio, and exercise. The body fat ratio is key for helping to ensure that muscle mass is not sacrificed during the weight loss process. If the body-fat ratio does not improve then the patient is less healthy than before losing weight and can be expected to gain back all that was lost plus more. At New Hope Medical Center, we use Bio-Energy Testing to help us determine at what point a patient changes from fat burning to carbohydrate metabolism. This information is important whether the patient is an athlete trying to refine his workout or a patient seeking to lose weight.
In regards to exercise, it stimulates the production of testosterone which, in turn, helps improve the body fat ratio. Exercise can be done more intensely over 20-25 minutes with interval training, which is where a person works up to a high heart rate and cools down repeatedly over a period of time as opposed to one continuous steady pace, and thus, burn calories more quickly than over a more prolonged period of time. The key for exercise in weight loss is to include it as part of your daily routine 5-6 days a week, as opposed to 3-4 days a week for maintaining weight. Cardiovascular training for fat burning can also be alternated with resistance training to promote lean muscle mass retention and/or development. In this way, the patient not only loses weight but redistributes it and looks healthier as a result.
I hope this helps!
Dr. Dan
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Kevin:
As you appear to know, phentermine is a prescription item. We sometimes use it at New Hope Medical Center as part of an overall weight loss strategy to increase metabolism. However, it's important to remember that no weight loss program is successful is the weight being lost is muscle. If body fat percentage is not improving, all weight will be regained. Thus, the importance of combining exercise with dieting and/or dietary aids.
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