Weight
loss involved both mental and physical
process. Most
people
don’t know that it is almost impossible to loss weight with
either diet or exercises alone. You need to reduce your calorie intake
by planning out your diet to include only foods that will allow you
control how much calorie you take in daily.
Whether they are aiming to lose 20 or 100 pounds, experience shows
that you have to be able to combine healthy
dieting and exercise
to
achieve it.
Exercise, of course, is the best way to get those calories out and the
burn fat. Determine your daily calorie intake. Losing weight is simply
a matter of expending more calories than you take in, through exercise
and your daily activities. That however means that the amount of
calorie you consume should be a maintenance dosage while the fats
accumulated in the past needs to be burnt. To win the battle, it helps
to know how many calories you are consuming in a day.
* Write down all the things you eat on a typical day. Carry a small
notebook with you and write down every snack, every drink, and the
contents of every meal. There are also great websites that you can use
to keep track of calories, get recipes, and help achieve your goal.
Don't forget to include the pats of butter or the spoonful of sugar in
your coffee. It's best to do this for at least a couple weekdays and a
weekend; it's even better if you can go a full week. There are also
calorie tracking websites that can help you to do this, for example the
US government website, My Pyramid Tracker.
* Do an itemized calorie count. When possible, write down the number of
calories in each thing you eat as you eat it. Keep in mind that the
recommended serving size is often considerably smaller than the serving
you actually eat. Look up the calorie count on the internet for foods
that don't have calories listed on the container or for fast food
meals. You don't have to be 100% accurate, but you do want a good
estimate of the number of calories you're taking in. There is an idea
that multiplying your own weight by ten will produce a rough estimate
of the number of calories you need to eat per day to maintain your
weight.
This is NOT true, you may wind up grossly under (or perhaps over)
estimating the number of calories you should be eating. Use a
scientific or health website to determine the number of calories you
should eat a day or consult your doctor. Everyone has different
metabolisms and there is no blanket rule that covers everyone's
recommended calorie intake. Reducing 500 calories per day from the
calories you eat to maintain your weight can help you lose
a pound of
fat per week.