Hi, my name is Wendy, and…I am an addict!
For 38 years 4 months and 6 days, I have been habitually involved as a very willing participant in a ‘formalized’ addiction!!
To set the record straight (so-to-speak), the truth-of-the-matter is, that…[gulp]…I am (and can not remember when I wasn’t) addicted to exercise AND every aspect that involves the body-in-motion!
So now you know!! And, to really really really tattle on myself and to have the glaring spot-light shine on my craziness…I ran (yes, RAN) the very same day that I delivered each (each) of my children!! Ha Ha, what an image that once (waddling-Wendy) was!
Because of this ‘chosen’ life-style AND the sheer joy that comes from being a perpetual Energizer-Bunny, I have always found it rather curious and very very puzzling, why is it that most people do NOT ‘move’ (hardly) at all ~~ why so sedentary??
If you happen (for whatever reason) to lean more towards the ‘chill’-side of the spectrum…well…I have found some good-solid evidence and credible information that is sure to get you rolling rolling rolling and, quite possibly may even decrease your chance of fibroid growth (due to over-zealous estrogen storage found in fat fat and more fat-cells!)!
Recently, there was an experiment conducted (regarding exercise) and scientists were able to see how much being FIT changes your ability to burn (baby-burn) fat…the kind of fat that stores estrogen, especially (I repeat ‘especially’) prior to the onset of menopause when estrogen levels tend to INCREASE anyway!! Omylanta!!
The experiment was published in Science Translational Medicine and researched from Harvard University and other major institutions. The experiment looked at metabolite molecules (those ‘little guys’ that feed and nurture your entire body ~~ metabolism) and how influenced they are AND will change both during and after exercise!
Blood was drawn from 3 groups of people: 1. Normal, healthy 2. Unfit 3. Marathon runners.
The blood was drawn right before AND then right after each group exercised for 10 minutes. What the researchers found was astonishing!
After 10 minutes of treadmill jogging or stationary-bike riding, the normal healthy adults showed an increase of 100% of their fat-burning metabolites; the unfit group displayed a 50% increase of elevated fat-burning metabolites; and the marathon runners showed a 1000% increase in their fat-burning metabolites!!
Soooooo, the findings suggest that exercise has “both acute and CUMULATIVE effects on your body’s ability to use and burn fat,” says Gregory Lewis, a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and an author of the study.
After only 10 minutes of exercise, even the least fit individual showed evidence that their bodies were burning fat! The experiment also showed that the more fit that you are, the more fit you will be in metabolic fat-burning. The MORE you use…the MORE you use!!!
Exercise has complicated chain-reaction metabolic effects deep within our cells, that in turn act on our genes in ways that can change them very very positively ~~ combating all kinds of chronic diseases that are negatively influenced by fatty acids and (excess) estrogen!
So it is with a huge Cheshire-styled grin that I announce MY addiction…ha ha ha happily so!
Hey, pssssst…you want to try? Come on!! Get up!! Start moving! !
Yes, I know…it is oh so (pleasurably) addicting!! But so what…IT IS GOOD FOR YOU!! ♥
