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Can't Wait To Lose Weight?

Then make exercise a habit now. According to this article from the WebMD site, "By starting your morning with physical activity, you set the day's pace, Cedric X. Bryant, PhD, chief exercise physiologist of the American Council on Exercise says. 'Morning exercisers tend to stick with their exercise habit,' he says. By doing the bulk of exercise first thing in the morning, you get your exercise in before other distractions can intrude. We can all relate to that -- because once the day gets going, it's hard to get off the treadmill called life. Research suggests that morning exercise improves sleep, a benefit that could also promote weight loss, Bryant tells WebMD. One study of overweight women between the ages of 50 to 75 showed that those who engaged in consistent morning exercise (about four hours a week) slept better than those who exercised less. The evening exercisers had more trouble falling asleep - even if they fit in the four hours a week."

Then do cardio in the morning. According to this article by Tom Venuto, "Even though morning aerobic exercise has been embraced by bodybuilders as a "tried and true" fat loss technique, there is definitely not a unanimous agreement about its effectiveness, especially in the scientific community. Most competitive bodybuilders are die-hard advocates of doing aerobic exercise first thing in the morning before eating their first meal. They believe it will cause them to mobilize more stored body fat and increase their metabolic rate all day long."

Not Worried About Gaining Weight?

Then think again. This article by Tara Pope from the NY Times outlines the challenges that people face once they gain weight. "While researchers have known for decades that the body undergoes various metabolic and hormonal changes while it's losing weight, an Australian team detected something new. A full year after significant weight loss, these men and women remained in what could be described as a biologically altered state. Their still-plump bodies were acting as if they were starving and were working overtime to regain the pounds they lost. 'What we see here is a coordinated defense mechanism with multiple components all directed toward making us put on weight,' Joseph Proietto says. 'This, I think, explains the high failure rate in obesity treatment.'"