Calories - (Bear with me – please don’t go *sigh* lol) I have heard this before, because hear what I have to say before you think what I am going to say is the same as everything else you hear.
If you go online, there are so many websites that give you tools to lose weight, from Weight Watches to all the websites out there to get you on their site and sell you something even if you do not realise they are.
Just remember a woman generally needs 2000 calories to maintain her weight, and a guy needs around 2500.
Yup, this maybe different from person to person but go by these figures as a baseline and you will do fine, by following the rest of this website.
Example – Say you are a woman and 3 stone over weight. To maintain your weight at your current size when you are overweight, you may need to eat say 3000 calories a day if you are a chocoholic, love cake or just generally eat a lot as many people do.
So, if you look at the calories you are eating per day and change a few things so you eat 2000 , you are instantly eating 1000 calories less a day.
So because your body needs the extra 1000 calories to maintain your weight, it does not have them view food so where do it get them? Your body fat.
So as your body fights with itself about the calories it needs, it takes it from your body fat as the replacement fuel, and you lose weight.
No it won’t happen over night, but the right information, mindset you can achieve an incredible amount more in the same time you would go on a mainstream diet and get nowhere fast.
So next time you look about going in a diet, don’t as a diet will just make you rebound.
Just track the calories and you can easily lose weight by using your own body against itself, but in a good way. Just like when you boil water and it rises up the pan, take the heat off and the water naturally goes back to a level state.
Your body is the same.. especially when it comes to cutting out processed sugar which is an evil carbohydrate.
- Take the boiling pan of water off the hob, the water level naturally goes down
- Take processed sugar out of your diet, your body fat naturally goes back down
As with anything in life, there are exceptions like if you are female and have whats called PCOS. There are ways to combat this which will be talked about shortly.
In general though, if you are eating food with sugar in every day, you will notice a difference so the effect of sugar will come in a moment.
Maintenance Mode – Avoid
What you need to also bear in mind is you may need to eat more to lose weight. Sound crazy? It doe’s but its absolutely true.
If you are someone who skips breakfast, a meal or just tries to live on as little number of calories a day, you are going to completely rebound in weight.
That weight you lose you will put back on. Maybe not in the next few weeks but over the months you are trying to lose it, it will go back on.
But why? If you cut your calories to much, for example if a woman cuts her calories to 1400 a day, then your body can in time, store fat as an emergency instead of burning it off.
A friend of mine began to eat breakfast and added several hundred calories to their eating per day.
When I went round a few weeks later, they have very noticeably lose weight.
Your body needs fuel, even if you are sitting on the sofa doing nothing so give it what it needs and don’t restrict it.
But I am Always Hungry – What do I do?
As I have mentioned, a huge mistake people make when looking to lose weight is not eat enough.
They may also eat the wrong types of food which gets digested very quickly, high in calories and leaves them hungry again very soon after.
A bad example is macarni cheese with garlic bread, tastes wonderful but carbs are what we have around our mid section. Do you know what the worst carbohydrate is you can eat? white bread? White rice? nope .. it’s sugar.
Most people don’t realise it’s a carb. Also bear that in mind as sugar can hide in many other forms which I will talk about later.
Anyway, You need to make sure you have protein in every single meal as protein fills you up more than carbohydrates or fat. This can be anything from chicken, turkey, tuna, salmon, cottage cheese to tofu if you are vegetarian.
Most of you would probably know that anyway, which is great but many do not realise protein is fantastic because your body needs it as building blocks to keep you healthy but also! it fills you up easier and longer than carbs or fat.
When was the last time you had something like say a jam sandwich and still hungry half an hour later? A chicken and lettuce sandwich is so much better for you.
Get your chicken from the local butcher to, it’s much better quality and cheaper to.I live on chicken breasts from my butcher, they are huge! because they are from decent chickens.
Supermarkets generally have much smaller breasts, lower quality and filled with water. Look around this site for an article I will write to compare the difference.
With the Jam sandwich, because your body digests the bread and jam very very quickly but protein, it takes much much longer. It actually takes your body more calories to digest the protein to, bonus eh!
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