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Exercise is the best way to create the calorie deficit necessary to lose weight. You can do it by reducing your calorie intake, but you run the risk of switching your metabolism into starvation mode. Calorie reduction alone can actually cause you to lose muscle and cause your body fat percentage to increase.

Slashing calories will cause your body to switch into starvation mode, which means you burn fewer calories. In fact your metabolism can slow by 20 to 30 percent. If you severely cut your calories it can cause you metabolism to drop by as much as 45%.

Another negative affect of just cutting calories is you can lose muscle mass. Studies have shown that very low calorie diets without exercise, 40 - 50% of the weight loss to comes from lean tissue. Muscle burns calories so when you lose muscle you reduce your capacity to burn calories. This is where plateaus come from.

Exercise on the other hand raises your metabolism causing your to burn more calories. You can create a calorie deficit without triggering the starvation response. Exercise tells your body to keep the muscle and increase fat-burning enzymes and hormones. It also causes carbohydrates to be more likely burned for energy or stored as glycogen rather than fat.

If you want to lose fat, and not muscle you need to exercise. Cutting calories alone has many down sides. It can cause you to lose muscle you already have. It creates an environment in your body that causes cravings and increased appetite. Low calories diets leave you tired, lethargic and unable to sustain high levels of activity. Exercise maintains your muscle mass and triggers your body to be less likely to be stored as fat. It is the answer to all these dieting related problems.

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