There is only one way to look at weight loss.
It is hard.
Whether you are three hundred pounds over-weight or only five, shedding that extra weight is tough work and for most people, ends up discouraging them so much that they give up.
The bottom line if you are wondering how to lose weight is calories in versus calories out.
No matter what anyone tells you, you can lose weight by simply restricting calories to a number that is fewer than the number you are taking in.
If you do no intentional exercise in a day you probably have a basal metabolism (basal means: resting) anywhere between 2000 to 2900 calories a day.
The low number is geared toward women in general and the high number toward men.
It is just physiology.
Men burn more calories for doing nothing (that might be why we are so lazy?).
Now you might be thinking, "That sounds easy enough.
I will just eat less.
" But to temper those thoughts, consider the fact that one-pound of fat-one pound of stored energy-equals 3500 calories.
That means that if you restrict your diet to a healthy level, no less than fifteen hundred calories a day and do nothing else, you will lose a pound ever three weeks.
At that rate, well, you can do the math; it would take a long time to lose any real weight.
Furthermore, during your calorie restriction you would have to employ a discipline that most people do not have, after all, it is that discipline deficiency that got you to where you are (not counting hormone imbalances that effect weight gain or other health factors that you have no control over; those problems require a whole other set of tools).
If you want to lose a healthy amount of weight, three to four pounds a week you absolutely must incorporate exercise.
Here is the trick though: you still need to watch caloric intake.
While exercise has many benefits including, but not limited to increased basal metabolism rates, immediate calorie burning, heightened mental satisfaction and increases in discipline if you replace the calories you burned during exercise you will still not lose the weight.
That is why the bottom line is calories in, calories out.
Eat a balanced diet and exercise twenty minutes a day and you will gradually overcome that oversize waistline.
And remember to mix it up.
Weight lifting builds muscle which is a more efficient calorie burner and cardio, like running, increases heart strength which lowers blood pressure, heart rate and cholesterol, all important for keeping the metabolic furnace blazing.
Lastly, if you are like me and have a full time job, try implement these working man's weight loss tips.
These tips will show you how to lose weight by making small adjustments to your daily life.
It is hard.
Whether you are three hundred pounds over-weight or only five, shedding that extra weight is tough work and for most people, ends up discouraging them so much that they give up.
The bottom line if you are wondering how to lose weight is calories in versus calories out.
No matter what anyone tells you, you can lose weight by simply restricting calories to a number that is fewer than the number you are taking in.
If you do no intentional exercise in a day you probably have a basal metabolism (basal means: resting) anywhere between 2000 to 2900 calories a day.
The low number is geared toward women in general and the high number toward men.
It is just physiology.
Men burn more calories for doing nothing (that might be why we are so lazy?).
Now you might be thinking, "That sounds easy enough.
I will just eat less.
" But to temper those thoughts, consider the fact that one-pound of fat-one pound of stored energy-equals 3500 calories.
That means that if you restrict your diet to a healthy level, no less than fifteen hundred calories a day and do nothing else, you will lose a pound ever three weeks.
At that rate, well, you can do the math; it would take a long time to lose any real weight.
Furthermore, during your calorie restriction you would have to employ a discipline that most people do not have, after all, it is that discipline deficiency that got you to where you are (not counting hormone imbalances that effect weight gain or other health factors that you have no control over; those problems require a whole other set of tools).
If you want to lose a healthy amount of weight, three to four pounds a week you absolutely must incorporate exercise.
Here is the trick though: you still need to watch caloric intake.
While exercise has many benefits including, but not limited to increased basal metabolism rates, immediate calorie burning, heightened mental satisfaction and increases in discipline if you replace the calories you burned during exercise you will still not lose the weight.
That is why the bottom line is calories in, calories out.
Eat a balanced diet and exercise twenty minutes a day and you will gradually overcome that oversize waistline.
And remember to mix it up.
Weight lifting builds muscle which is a more efficient calorie burner and cardio, like running, increases heart strength which lowers blood pressure, heart rate and cholesterol, all important for keeping the metabolic furnace blazing.
Lastly, if you are like me and have a full time job, try implement these working man's weight loss tips.
These tips will show you how to lose weight by making small adjustments to your daily life.