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LIFESTYLE HABITS

A healthy diet and good habits are integral to long term weight management. Having a healthy lifestyle is the best long-term strategy to lose weight permanently and healthily. Looking after our physical health also has the added bonus of making us feel better – fitter, more relaxed and better able to cope with things.

Adequate Exercise

Physical exercise is an equally important key factor in weight loss as diet. To lose weight, you must be burning more calories than you eat.

BENEFITS OF EXERCISE

Exercise works off your calorie intake and stimulates metabolism and helps burn calories and can even temporarily suppress appetite post-workout.

BURNING CALORIES AFTER EXERCISE

Muscle cells need a lot of energy, which means they burn a lot of calories. In fact, they burn more calories than fat cells, even when you're not exercising. So the time you spend working out reaps benefits long after you stop sweating. Exercise becomes even more important as you get older.

It is recommended that to perform aerobic exercise at least three times a week for a minimum of 20 minutes per session. However, more than 20 minutes will be better if you want to lose weight. Incorporating just 15 minutes of moderate exercise — such as walking one mile — on a daily basis will burn up to 100 extra calories. Burning 700 calories a week can equals 4.5KG. of weight loss over the course of a year.