How do I lose weight in the long term? A question that many face. One thing is clear: diets usually end with the yo-yo effect. But how do you lose weight without starving? Endurance sports like running can be the key to success.
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In the past, we primarily focused on achieving our ideal weight by doing without. That was a mistake. Because anyone who removes food from the body while on a diet only triggers an emergency program. The metabolism goes down for a phase. This is deeply anchored in us, from ancient times. And since evolution is damn slow, our genes are even more similar to those of our ancestors than we often think. If you then eat normally again, you gain weight again quickly – and usually weigh more than before the diet.
(Almost) nobody escapes the yo-yo effect. Incidentally, women suffer much more from this problem than men. The body secures supplies for the next phase of hunger. He wants to be prepared for times of crisis – only these are extremely rare in the western industrial nations.
We live in an eternal abundance. This is one of the reasons why millions of people in Germany plague themselves with the fact that their core becomes increasingly soft and voluminous in the course of their lives. They suffer not only for aesthetic reasons, but also for health reasons. With every centimeter of waist circumference, the risk of disease increases. Belly fat has been shown to promote inflammatory processes in the body that increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease or type 2 diabetes. In the meantime, 67 percent of men and 53 percent of women in Germany are overweight. There are now experts in Germany who, in view of these numbers, speak of an epidemic of obesity.
That is why the question arises more urgently than ever: How do I lose weight successfully and, above all, in the long term? Diets are total nonsense, there is now no doubt about that. No form of withdrawal – and nothing else is diet – will help normalize weight. How to do it better?
Running can help you lose weight, diets make you fatter
We’ll talk about that in the new episode of our podcast “She’s running. He’s running”. We ask and, above all, we answer the question: Does endurance sports such as running help you lose weight? Nobody has to count calories anymore. That only causes stress – and it usually ensures that we eat more. A healthy diet, on the other hand, is important.
Fortunately, many who want to lose weight are now starting to do sports at the same time. Endurance sports such as running are particularly helpful. Because they trigger many health-promoting processes in the body. They also increase the basal metabolic rate – running is one of the most effective sports. But – this is also what the current episode of the podcast is about – not as much as most people would like to believe. How much exactly? Listen to the podcast “She runs. He runs” and you will know how much you have to run so that a piece of chocolate cake doesn’t make your stomach grow in the form of fat.
