Enegery Out

The Energy-Out Systems – Your total daily caloric expenditure comes from a variety of things:
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• Your basal metabolic rate: the energy you expend to just stay alive.
• Intentional exercise: the energy you expend during workouts.
• The thermic effect of food or TEF: what your body expends to digest and assimilate nutrients.
• Your NEAT: the energy you expend moving around.
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All these together account for your caloric output. And a recent study shows that those people with a high level of “energy-out” are the ones that lose fat and keep it off for over 10 years. So, eating less and less really isn’t the solution for losing fat and keeping it off. Eat less and move more is, in fact, quite accurate. But maybe it’s more accurate to say, “Eat less, move more consistently… and not just at the gym.”
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It’s NEAT that may be the biggest factor in sustaining your fat loss. If you’re working out and eating reasonably okay, it’s quite possible that the reason you’re not shedding fat is because, outside of the gym, your activity levels make a hibernating bear look like a hyperactive three-year-old.
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With life now consisting of desk jobs or other sedentary forms of employment, average energy expenditure outside of the gym is low. If that sounds like you, NEAT is probably what’s missing in your fat loss efforts. The good news is, increasing it is relatively easy if you’re cognizant of just moving more.