While the geese are getting fat, so too is Martine McCutcheon. In fact she has been ordered to put on as much weight as she can before she embarks on a career enhancing weight loss journey amounting to yet another of her fitness dvd stocking fillers. The idea behind this weight gain is to make the weight loss achieved seem as dramatic as possible as she starts the gruelling work outs at size 16 and finishes a much smaller size 10.
A recent study at Harvard University has found that beginning an exercise regime before a diet commences is the way forward in terms of weight loss and discovered a direct association between exercise and eating habits. They also found that in the long term, exercise will also quell the temptations that we face every day, for example, foods that are high in calories. The study is published in Obesity Reviews.
McCutcheon’s goal to gain weight and then speedily lose it is the sort of diet that is only recommended where a six figure sum of money is being offered. Otherwise, gradual weight loss and a healthy balance of diet and exercise is recommended for lasting effects.