Weight Loss Blog
The Weight Loss Blog offers news and information about nutrition and fitness as well as actual weight loss success stories as told by students at Wellspring Academies, formerly Academy of the Sierras, the first boarding school for overweight teens. WSA is part of Wellspring, which also runs Wellspring weight loss camps.
The Blog started with entries by 15-year-old Jahcobie who graduated from WSA after losing 176 pounds in seven months. Then Brooke, a 17-year-old from Prescott, Arizona, took over. Our latest student blogger was Melissa, a 17-year-old from Orange County, California. Melissa recently graduated and we wish her success and she continues down her path as a "long-term weight controller."
Andy D. a 17-year-old student at Wellspring Academy spent a few months sharing his adventures in weight loss, healthy eating, and fitness fun with us before he graduated the program in June.
Now we'll continue to update you with news and information about weight lose, healthy living, and childhood obesity. We'll have a new WSA student share their stories with us beginning in the Fall.
Wellspring programs are the most effective weight loss solutions for teens available today. But don't let us tell you. Let Andy, Melissa, Brooke, and Jahcobie tell you. Read about their journeys toward successful weight management in their own words.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
You Have to Burn Calories to Lose Weight Either by Exercise or Dieting
A new study done through Louisiana State University found that either diet or exercise works to lose weight, which is all about burning calories. You burn calories by either eating less and forcing your body to use up calories in stored fat, or by exercising more, or by combining the two methods.
"For overall health, an appropriate program of diet and exercise is still the best," according to researcher Dr. Eric Ravussin of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge.
Dr. Ravussin's study challenges many common beliefs about losing weight by results that show:
- "Spot reducing" is impossible. You can't force fat off your trouble spots like thighs, belly or arms.
- Adding more muscle mass does not boost metabolism and help you take off even more weight.
- Dieting doesn't make you lose muscle mass.
Dr. Ravussin's research team employed 34 people for six months. Twelve cut back their calories by 25%. Twelve exercised five times a week to burn up their calorie intake by 12.5% while also decreasing their food calories by 12.5%. Ten people did nothing at all. At the end of the study, the ten who did nothing remained the same weight. The others lost about 10 percent of their body weights, amounting to 24% of their fat mass and 27% of abdominal visceral fat. This study appears in the February 2007 issue of the
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
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