Battling Obesity

By Nick Farina

Myth #1 - Low intensity exercise is the best form for weight loss as it puts you into a fat burning zone.

FACT – Your body uses a mixture of carbohydrates and fat for fuel. It is true that during low intensity exercise your body’s preferred choice of fuel is fat. However the fat burning zone doesn’t really matter, as it is important to remember that your source or energy will come from the same mix of both carbohydrates and fat. Therefore it will all come from the same calorie pool and this is what you need to focus on - how many calories you are burning.

Myth #2 - You can lose fat from a specific area of your body by doing an exercise for that part of your body. For example, using a seated leg adductor machine to remove fat from your inner thighs. .

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A reader has forwarded to me the following:

Dear Webmaster,

I would like to suggest a resource for your site, Battling-Obesity.com.

It seems a lot of your readers are interested in being healthy and losing weight. Here is an obesity quiz you may find useful: (see link below)

Thank you in advance for your consideration.

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By Bentley Thompson

If you were told by your doctor that you are significantly overweight, would it have been surprizing to you? Most certainly not; you already would (or should) have known. You have been ignoring reality all this time.

In fact, if I am obese and my doctor said otherwise I would have known he/she was telling me a fat lie.

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My wife emailed me this little blurb in today’s paper … I wonder if she’s trying to tell me something? Hmmm

Fri Feb 16 2007

THE producers of a weight-loss reality-TV show are holding an open casting call in Winnipeg this month.
X-Weighted, a reality/documentary series that follows subjects as they try to reach their weight-loss goals with the help of expert coaches, will hold auditions for its third season on Feb. 24 and 25 at the Holiday Inn South.

The show’s producers are looking for overweight subjects who will commit to being filmed for six months while following a diet and exercise program, whose families and friends are also willing to be recorded, and who have a meaningful and reality-TV-worthy goal they’re looking to achieve with their weight-loss effort.

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