The reasons why weight loss through exercise leads to weight gain
Exercise is a common method for weight loss. On one hand, exercise directly burns a large amount of calories, oxidizes fat, and reduces body weight. On the other hand, exercise boosts the body's metabolism and increases daily energy consumption, which can also achieve the goal of weight loss. However, in real life, many people who exercise to lose weight often find that their weight increases after exercising, leading to concerns that their body is getting fatter and that exercise is ineffective for weight loss.
Reasons Why Exercise Can Lead to Weight Gain
1. Ignoring the Dietary Structure for Exercise-Based Weight Loss
While exercising to lose weight, it is also important to pay attention to other aspects of diet and health. One reason is that if you overeat after exercising, especially after intense exercise, your appetite increases, and if you consume excessive amounts of high-calorie, high-fat foods, the calories consumed will far exceed the fat burned during exercise and the body's maximum complete metabolic consumption. This often leads to persistent or even increased obesity, causing more fat to accumulate.
2. Glycogen Increase and Water Retention
It is also worth noting that the increase in weight after exercise may not necessarily be due to fat gain but rather due to an increase in glycogen and water retention in the body. After exercise, the body's muscle glycogen and liver glycogen are significantly consumed. After the exercise ends, due to the stimulation from the exercise, the body generally stores more glycogen than before exercising. This situation usually gradually improves after continued exercise.
Through the introduction above, many of you have likely gained an understanding of the reasons why exercise-based weight loss can rebound. Experts in this field remind us that the effectiveness of exercise-based weight loss is influenced by many factors, especially that it is necessary to adjust the dietary structure while exercising to better ensure the overall effects of weight loss.
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