When you start exercising, you will gain weight

Regular exercise is very good for our health, and one of the great benefits of exercise is that it can help us lose weight. For women, the most important thing is weight loss methods. No matter what kind of exercise they use, they hope to lose weight as quickly as possible. However, many women discovered a problem when they first started exercising: they would gain weight, which would greatly undermine their self-confidence. Let’s take a look at the reasons below.

1. How does fitness help you lose weight?

There are two main ways to reduce weight through fitness: directly consuming a large amount of calories, oxidizing fat, reducing weight and increasing the body's metabolic consumption, increasing daily energy consumption, and achieving the goal of losing weight. Seeing this, you must think that fitness will only reduce weight. It would be fine if I don’t lose weight, but why do I gain weight?

2. Starting fitness in the early stages of your life will increase your body's glycogen and water retention, causing your weight to rise instead of fall.

People who did not exercise suddenly start to gain weight after exercising, but the weight gain is not fat, so there is no need to worry. The increase in weight is mainly due to the increase of glycogen in the body and the retention of water. When exercising, our bodies consume a lot of muscle glycogen and liver glycogen water, because muscle glycogen and liver glycogen water are the main energy supplied to the body during exercise. Generally speaking, their total reserves in the human body are about 250g to 400g. After the exercise, due to the stimulation of exercise, the body generally stores more glycogen than before exercise. After exercise, liver glycogen stores are quickly replenished through diet, and the body also stores water in a ratio of (glycogen) 1: (water) 3.

3. You need to drink water after exercise

Although water needs to be stored in a ratio of 1:3 during the synthesis of liver glycogen, this does not mean that it is best not to drink water after exercise in order to lose weight. If you do not replenish water after a lot of sweating, your body will easily become dehydrated, and glycogen cannot be replenished, which will cause the body to become ill.

4. Here are two tips for you on this situation

If after reading this principle you still cannot accept the fact that your initial fitness weight increases instead of decreases, then I suggest that you do not know your weight when you first start fitness. Wait until about a week after fitness to remember your weight. Treat your weight at this time as your weight when you first entered the gym, and then start your weight loss journey.