Benefit of Increasing Neat – When you want to loose weight you mainly depend on exercise and workout you try to inc-operate more exercise in our daily routines and try to eat a clean diet. But you somehow neglect an important aspect of life which is as or more important than doing exercise or eating clean diet that is your daily chores activities which also burn calories and we are not aware about it because we are not counting calories of these activities and do not think that they will help us in loosing weight.
The only way you loose weight is when you are on a calorie deficit. Weight loss occurs when you burn more calories then you consume either by eating less food or by doing more exercise. You do not need to follow any fad diet to lose weight as these diets cannot be implemented long term. they somehow make you eat less calories then your body requires so loose weight.
Calorie deficit can be achieved by doing regular exercise where you go to a gym or play any sport but these activities you perform for maximum one or hours in a day in that period you burn some calories according to your intensity of workout and many other factors but you can also burn calories during the day with NEAT.
NEAT(Non-exercise activity thermogenesis) it include all those activities which burn calories exuding sleep, your gym workout and your calories burned during the food you eat like walking, cycling gardening, playing with kids and doing your daily chores. You may believe it or not but these activities burn more calories then your workout you do for an hour two. A full day has 24 hours in which you are sleeping for max 7 to 8 hours 1 or 2 hours you are exercising and you take around 1 hour in consuming all the meals that equals to 10 yours approx and in the rest 14 or 13 hours you are following your daily routines like working at office, taking care of home or children or watching tv. The time can be productive and help you in your weight loss journey.
You can increase your NEAT time bringing in small changes in your life. You have to be active and regularly thinking about it what things you can include so that will burn calories. If your a working individual and you commute to work by metro so while using metro you should use stairs instead of escalators or lifts, once a week you should clean your house by yourself, play with your kids more often take them to parks if you have a pet take them out when watching tv try to move around at break time whenever you receive a call start walking around these small activities if implemented into the daily lifestyle you won’t have to put extra efforts at gym or following rigorous diets
Benefits of NEAT in weight loss
Improves your metabolism
When you are implementing NEAT activities in your daily routines it improves your metabolism slowly and steadily. All the activities you perform they need energy. You aren’t only burning calories at the gym, but walking to the office, standing while working all these activities too burn calories. So when you are burning calories more than consuming you automatically use energy from your body fat and muscles and when your levels are down your metabolism improves.
NEAT promotes fat loss
When you implement NEAT in your daily routine and along with you are doing a regular workout you burn more calories then you are burning through only calories. As to burn 1 gram of fat you need to burn 3500 calories. So when you’re burning more calories than usual you would burn fat from your body.
NEAT prevents obesity
the person who is following NEAT will lose weight and will not let you gain weight too because when you are continuously active during the day you would be burning more calories from the person who are not following NEAT and will not get obese. Over the period of time, these activate you will perform become habitual to them and you will be burning calories when you are not thinking about burning.
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