I read something recently that a study showed that merely eating less or consuning fewer calories is not the only key to losing weight. A rounded diet with a lowered calorie count is the start, but exercise along with the diet is the key. The exercise will burn excess calories and give you benefits other than merely losing weight.
An article in the New York Times a month or so ago said that early exercise, especially before breakfast, provided additional weight loss benefits. I think the point was that exercise gets your metabolism going and since you have not eaten in the past ten hours or so, you are immediately pulling stored glucose from your liver or from stored calories (fat).
I must admit that have never been a morning person and can’t or won’t get up a six to walk a couple of miles as I should. But I do walk two or three times per week, six times around a half mile walkway in the part.
Another thing I read that, especially for weight loss, exercise for 20 minutes a day 5 or more times per week is better than two or three 45 minute workouts. Again it keeps the metabolic system flowing.
We are too sedentary a culture. Our bodies evolved from other primates and we are built to be active, not passive.
One other thing, even if it is not a major factor in weight loss, is muscle tone. I bought a ten Lb. weight for use by the hand and I do 20 curls per day in each hand. Not very tiring but it gets the muscles in your arm and forearm moving and gets the blood circulating. This takes five minutes tops…Do ten on one side, ten on the other, repeat.
SRM