Life After Surgery - Exercise
After your surgery, making a habit of regular intentional exercise can be one of the most important changes you can make to lose and maintain weight. Exercise increases your energy, increases strength and muscle tone, helps joints stay loose and supple and helps you to develop good body posture. It also helps you sleep and rest more peacefully, improves circulation, heart and lung function and can provide an outlet from the stresses often experienced in everyday life. It increases the ability to concentrate and learn and can make you happy and feel good.
Any form of physical activity will use calories, and you can learn how much exercise you need to balance the amount of calories you consume. It is recommended that you do 20-30 minutes of some form of exercise, at least 3 times per week for good health, but you may prefer to do more for good fitness and weight maintenance.
One great advantage of exercise for weight loss and maintenance is that while you are exercising you are not eating and you are distracted from food. Making the most of this, and exercising when you would normally be snacking out of habit can help to break this habit, reducing your food intake. You may find this particularly helpful in the evenings if you would usually be watching TV, as food and television often go hand-in-hand. This way, not only are you decreasing your food intake, you are decreasing your inactivity and gaining good health.
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