Physical exercise can help you temporarily lose weight. I say temporarily because maintaining a new weight is a different story. Any diet plan and workout program can help you lose weight, but sustaining that weight depends on how disciplined the person is. Sometimes exercising may not help you lose pounds or even worse, may hurt your weight loss goals. In fact, one research headed by Dr. Timothy Church and published in the PLOS One journal suggests that exercising may not have significant effects on weight loss at all. 
In that study, 464 overweight women and who don’t work out at all were randomly put into four different groups. The first three groups were given personal trainers. And each of those groups was requested to exercise at least 72, 136, and 194 minutes a week, respectively. The fourth group was labeled as the control group because they were asked not to change their usual habits. All groups, however, are asked to maintain their normal eating patterns and required to fill out questionnaires submitted monthly for the next six months.
Have you ever noticed that after every physical workout you feel hungrier than before? Even worse, what happens to your food addiction and cravings? This is because when we exercise we actually put our bodies under stress. It doesn’t matter if it's physical or mental stress, scientific studies suggest that once our bodies are under stress they’ll to demand more food. And it also doesn’t matter how long you exercise or how many times you hit the gym, if we don’t have the right mental state, we eventually jeopardize the goal or food plan when temptation comes our way.
The primary benefit of Bright Line Eating by Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson, and one thing lacking in most weight management programs today, is considering the psychological aspect of the problem. Weight loss is more than just dieting and exercising. If you don’t have the right mindset then the chances of you losing weight decrease. Even worse you may gain additional weight because when the body experienced stress, our brain may trick us and justify exceptions. Like some sort of a reward system saying, “I worked hard and I deserved even a tiny bit of reward for my effort.” It may not seem harmless in the beginning, but when a person continually does this it eventually adds up and form a habit.
If you don’t have the right mindset, you may succumb to overeating when you’re constantly tempted to do so. Thus, you’ll eventually gain back weight and losing a few pounds in the long run may become frustrating. The goal of Bright Line Eating is to incorporate discipline into your eating patterns and make it as natural as possible, much like brushing your teeth. It means that even if you’re placed under pressure to over-eat, you can pass through these temptations with ease and without compromising your weight loss goals.
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