Calories are everything that we eat. Its amount varies on what kind of food we actually take in. The heavier the content of the food is in terms of carbohydrate, protein, and fat content, the
larger the amount of calories it contains. The amount of calories that a person needs everyday varies, this depends on your age, weight, height, and the activities you do. When you over eat and your calorie count is surging way too high than what you need, weight gain occurs.
How many calories to lose weight?
Counting may be too much a task to some people especially those who have really busy schedules. But if counting would mean losing some of those extra pounds fast then it may be worth a try. This technique had been proven to be very safe and effective especially if you really watch how much you eat every meal.
The first step to calorie counting is to know how much calories you need to consume in a day. You may use online calorie calculators to do so or manually compute it using the Harris-Benedict Equation.
When you have already established your daily calorie requirement, the next step is to learn how much calories your food contain. Learning caloric contents of your food is easy. You can make use of the nutrition guide which is usually found at the back of each food container that details the amount of calories each food serving contains. This is not hard to find because almost all food have this label because it is being mandated by the law. This is to ensure that consumers are aware of they are eating.
Then there’s what we call calorie burning. Walking, jogging, swimming, and any other activities help burn the calories we have consumed. Cardio exercises are the top pick for people who wish to lose weight fast because energy expenditure is quite high when doing activities that increase your vital signs.
Now let’s do the math:
Subtract the amount of calories you want to spare everyday from your daily calorie requirement to get your weight loss caloric count. Do remember that the calorie-pound ratio is 3500:1. This mean, losing 500 calories a day can make you lose one pound in a week. Burning another 500 will make you lose two pounds in one week. Burning or cutting your calorie intake by 500 to 1000 calories a day is generally considered safe; going beyond that may need medical supervision.
But then again, it is advisable to seek medical advice before undergoing any weight loss plan. Your doctor is the best person to tell you which is the best and safest method for you. This goes especially true to people who are morbidly obese because rapid weight loss could be very dangerous.
Overall, eating less and exercising more is still the best way to lose weight. In addition to that, counting the amount of calories you take in daily will help keep you on tract.
Calorie counting is simple don’t you think?
article source http://www.howtoloseweighthealthy.com/
Showing posts with label Food Choices. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Styling Your Life With Fast Weight Loss
Imagine if you could style your life and redesigned it with the basics of fast weight loss tips. Sounds easy huh?
I am one of the living example of those people that fail to put into their lives the practice of weight loss. For all we know weight lose is an easy task once we get started and get used to it.
Lifestyle is how we decide to live each day and become a part of us,draw our life history. I chose to be straightforward and honest,you can see it all in my actions. When I chose to embrace continuous learning, you could see how I tried a lot of stuff and stop things that didn't work for me. I chose to try scrap booking, hence its one of my favorite hobbies. I quit smoking a year ago,thus no more puff forever. Those are my course of action over the years which play a major role in my daily life today. How about you? What is your lifestyle?
Of course I forgot to mention the sort of behaviour I have when it comes to weigh lose. I have been saying that fast and free weight lose is not impossible. Yes! Because I experienced it trough out my life. But lifestyle is also a question of consistency and persistence. For instance,lately I am not sleeping properly. We all know how lack of sleep destroys weight lose.
Are we persistent on having the healthy and slim body? My answer, NO. My lifestyle changed for the past two years. Some of these habits affected my weight. Lets discuss them as I found it helpful for some that aspire for fast weigh lose.
Remember: Changing your lifestyle is free. Worth working out,right?
1. Food choices
I discuss under eating habit hoe your food choices will make you fat. Eat according to your goals. Grab enough food that will provide the food nutrition you want for your ideal weight.
2. Bad habits
These habits are the hardest part to eliminate in our system. Its easy to learn and master the tricks of bad habits though. Try quitting and you will spend five times the effort you used acquiring them. I, for one, is guilty of bad sleeping and eating habits.
3. Peer and family relationship
Dont ever depend your decision to your friends and family. Do you belong to a group where fatness and obesity is the normal trend? If so, try to observe their habits affecting weigh lose. Never ever think that these are normal behavior. Change your way if you really want to lose those fats.
Do you have friends who always love to eat outside? Try to figure out ways how you can avoid gaining the extra calories. Decide base on your weight goals,not because of your social attachment with them. I'm not telling you not to go out with friends. Its never wrong to eat outside as long as you know your limitations.
4. Vices
Smoking, gambling and drinking are some vices that will destroy your body overtime. Its not directly related to weight lose but its directly destroying your personality. Remember how stress affects our body. Quit these vices now to attain the healthy lifestyle you are dreaming of.
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