April 5
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lesdarts180 wrote: »What is exercise and what can it do for you?
From the UK NHS website:
It can reduce your risk of major illnesses, such as coronary heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and cancer and lower your risk of early death by up to 30%.
It's free, easy to take, has an immediate effect and you don't need a GP to get some.
Its name? Exercise.
I would add to the above that exercise has also been shown to have a positive effect on our mental health, especially if you can get outdoors to do it.
Note that the NHS extract does not claim that exercise will reduce weight. We should do it for our overall health.
However, it can help us towards a healthy weight.
Here on MFP there is a debate about exercise calories – to eat them or not?
The MFP method, if you use their guided set up, is to have your calorie allowance based on your “activity level” and then add extra calories if you record “exercise”. Personally, I find the distinction between “activity” and “exercise” somewhat confusing.
Some of the members of this group swear by the TDEE method of estimating calorie allowance whereby you estimate your overall calorie requirement over several days (or weeks) so that your activity and average exercise is all taken into account.
No one way is right or wrong, and what you do is up to personal preference.
Now that I am maintaining I use a half/half approach and set my basic calorie allowance to take account of a pretty active lifestyle, and only add back (and eat) some of my exercise calories.
What do you do?
Great topic and info @lesdart I try not to eat back my calories cos I find my weight goes up wen I do but if a go over by a little now and then I'll use my exersice calories then. Xo0
