Getting Fit the Healthy Way.

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First, doing a specific timed exercise will not burn the same number of calories for every individual. It isn’t solely the length of time the defines how much energy you use: Your age, gender, weight, muscle mass, your heart rate, the exercise’s intensity, how your metabolism works, how hot or cold you are, the amount of stress you’re under, how much adrenaline is going through your body - There are so many factors here. You could do the same number of jumping jacks every day and burn a different amount each time. Even if every person reading this is a “150 pound adult” like the image states, they’d all be burning different amounts of energy.

Next:  Everything that we do burns calories. The energy required to form thoughts, breath in air, move your mouth and speak will all burn calories. Simply being alive burns calories - The only way that you would stop using energy is by dying. You really want to burn off that soda? Nap for 3 hours. Want to burn off the chocolate cake? Play video games for 6 hours. Your body is built to use up energy and utilize those calories, so you do not have to do anything out of the ordinary in order to make use of your food.

Because the reality is that you don’t have to burn off these calories. Food isn’t an obligation to exercise. Food is what fuels us and allows us to exist throughout the day: Without those calories, simple daily activities wouldn’t even be possible. So to believe that those calories need to instantly and inherently be exercised away is harmful and downright untrue.

–> Exercise is not a punishment for eating food.

–> Calories do not instantly need to be negated by exercise.