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Physical Activity...
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What role does exercise play in your program? |
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In our program we have something called a Triple Imperative®; three things that you must do to be successful in losing and maintaining your weight with us. One of the imperatives is physical activity. The goal is to burn a minimum of 2000 calories per week. We use a simple chart to calculate calories burned based on body weight, duration and type of activity. Most of our patients walk.
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What is Physical Activity (PA)? |
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PA simply defined is moving your body through space. Almost anything you do that burns calories is PA. Examples are gardening, walking, stair climbing or cycling. Everyone can do PA.
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What's important about physical activity? |
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Losing and maintaining body weight is a matter of balancing the amount of calories you consume with the amount you burn. PA constitutes a portion of the amount you burn. Apart from its basic function of having us burn calories to reduce or maintain body weight, PA has a bounty of other health benefits. Some of these include reduced risk of developing cancer, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, improved psychological well-being and enhanced work and life performance.
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How much PA should I do each day? |
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Although we recommend burning about 300 calories in physical activity each day, at a minimum, many of our patients/clients begin at very low levels, and some do not do any at all at the time they join. However, like our approach with fruits and vegetables and meal replacements... MORE IS BETTER™! Weight loss will be expedited as PA levels increase. Consider this, if a 220-pound person walked away from their house for 10 minutes and then went home, and then did it again later that day, they would have burned about 300 calories.
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