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Guaranteed Weight Loss needs both Calories Loss and Food Fuel
By Rowena French | November 9, 2008
It has been common knowledge for many years that the best way to lose weight is to create a calories loss by eating less calories than your body requires and to burn additional fat through exercise. This is accurate information and the secret to a positive outcome to any weight loss program over the long term.
Adult eaters eat on average something like 2,000 calories in the course of a day and this is what our body needs as energy to carry out our daily activities. We need to create a deficit in the calories equation through a calories loss food plan and allow our body to use the energy stored in the excess fat we carry around. An achievable goal would be the reduction of our calorie intake to 1,500 calories and the use of the equivalent energy found in 500 calories from our fat supply.
That will make you lose weight. There are roughly 3,500 calories in a pound of fat so in order to lose five pounds you will need to burn an additional 17,500 calories. That is why it is impossible for those fad diets and trendy diet pills to work like they say they do and why a gradual calories loss through eating a healthy diet is the only way to go.
Medication can not burn the extra calories that you can through what you eat and how you exercise. We know that fat burning does come through calories loss but losing weight is more than just watching your calorie intake. For all aspects of your body’s health you need to balance what you eat by making sure that your menu includes foods from each of the different food groups.
As you plan an eating and exercise program to help you lose weight make sure that you do this to take care of your body and not punish it. Eating salad and drinking water will not help you do this as a diet like this fails to provide the balanced nutrition that you need. Your body needs the right kinds of food as fuel to remain healthy as you lose weight.
Common sense dictates that there is only one way to fuel your body so that it remains healthy even when you are losing weight. This is the inclusion of a variety of foods including fruits, healthy fats, whole grains and vegetables. ‘Not so difficult’ you may think ‘But what about eating these foods even when you’d rather your high calories favorites like donuts with coffee and deep fried fish and fries’?
It is not always easy to only give your body what it needs when you are craving a juicy, cheesy, greasy burger, but if you want to be healthy, you will choose to skip that burger and replace it with a turkey and salad wholemeal roll. Changes like this are not really about going ‘on’ a diet in the traditional sense. They are about a lifestyle change and creating a calories loss and this is just a tool to help lose unwanted weight and keep it off.
If you focus on the development of a healthy body you as you would be wise to do, you can use calorie counting as means of monitoring the path to your weight loss. There will be no need to penalize yourself for carrying too much weight; instead you can respect your body and provide it with foods that will help it become stronger and healthier. Along with regular exercise, a diet that contains lean meat, fruits and vegetables and whole grains is the ultimate way to guide your body to the healthy weight and shape it should be.
When you first start a new healthier eating program it can feel awkward, but after you stick with it for a time, it will begin to feel NORMAL. The trick is getting through that period of calories loss ‘change’. Once you accept the change, accept the new routine and start to notice your weight loss it will feel greatlike, how did I ever NOT do this before?
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