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How to Lose Fat With Science-Based Tools

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Exercise and Weight Loss - The Power of the Nervous System

Study: Just being told that movement is good for you can lead to weight loss, et cetera. Study tracked subjects over a period of many weeks. How we think about and perform those activities has a real effect on our physiology. The mere knowledge that exercise is good for you shifted their behavior in the direction of enhanced weight loss,.

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then they tracked these subjects over a period of many weeks. The takehome message from this study was that simply being told that movement is good for you can lead to weight loss, et cetera, led to significantly more body fat loss, waste
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o, hip ratio changes in the direction that most people would want, essentially a slimming down, if you will,
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and all sorts of other positive effects on things like cardio vascular health, simply by the knowledge
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that movement and exercise can help various health markers.
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So this is remarkable, and it speaks to the power of the nervous system and the power of belief in governing aspects
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of our body and our physiology that one would otherwise think were outside our conscious control. Now,
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of course, any of you that think
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scientifically, which i imagine if you watch this podcast or listen to this podcast, is all of you by now probably
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thinking, well, maybe they just moved around more. Or maybe i, you know, they
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stood up and sat down more. Maybe they, they did something else that was different. And indeed, theres a strong possibility that they did things differently than the other group.
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But the mere knowledge that exercise is good for you, that movement is good for you, shifted their behavior and their physiology in the direction of
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enhanced weight loss, fat loss, et cetera. So how we think about a given set of activities effects how we perform those activities. And we think and about and perform those activities has a real effect on our physiology. So
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somewhere between the hard and fast rule that
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governs fat loss and weight loss, which
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is, if
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you ingest more calories than you burn, you'll either maintain or gain weight, typical you'll gain weight, although not always, if you injest about as many calories as you burn, you'll maintain weight, typically.

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