People often try to achieve their fat loss goals through exercise alone because they don’t want to stop eating the foods that they enjoy or they believe that exercise is the key to weight loss. However, evidence demonstrates a high variability in body weight responses to exercise training which is often misunderstood. Exercise for example can increase appetite and so you may end up eating more calories than you were consuming before you started an exercise program. Ultimately, exercise itself only burns a small percentage of calories and whilst you may continue burning calories long after a workout, it is not likely as much as you may hope. Recent studies have demonstrated that in groups of overweight and obese women who followed an 8 week exercise-only approach to weight loss experienced zero fat reduction. Not only that but appetite hormone levels increased significantly in these participants. 

In this episode we answer one of our listeners questions related to losing weight when suffering from back pain. They were concerned that the pain their experiencing is stopping them participating in exercise which was preventing them from losing weight. We discuss the importance of introducing nutritional strategies over exercise if you’re to safely lose weight whilst supporting tissue recovery. We also demonstrate that despite the pain you’re experiencing there will always be exercise you can perform, and should perform, as part of your recovery plan.

Some of the things you’ll discover…

• That exercise isn’t the key to weight loss
• There are always exercises you can do to support your back recovery
• How finding the correct frequency and intensity of exercise is important in your recovery
• The increasing evidence supporting the incidence of chronic inflammation as a result of our dietary choices
• Why weight loss success is largely dependent on the foods you eat over the exercise you perform
• Some simple strategies to improve your diet today
• How eating the right foods will make you feel full for longer

Highlights

With the current pandemic it’s clear that underlying health issues can increase our risk of mortality and that includes obesity. Increasingly people are looking at ways to take a pro-active approach to their health and losing weight is high up on the list for many. However, a big mistake many people make is focusing on exercise alone for weight loss but if you’re suffering from pain then that can be challenging. Whilst there will always be exercises you can perform to support your recovery from back pain, focusing your attention on nutritional strategies will also play a fundamental role in the successful management of weight.

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