Your Body And Weight Loss

Let's face it not everyone was meant to be a size 2, and losing 250 pounds in two weeks isn't going to happen without a visit to your doctor. So why do we all try to starve ourselves thin? Losing weight is about getting healthy, and eating 200 calories a day is not healthy. So how can you save your waistline? By eating of course. I know I know that's what got you into trouble in the first place! So let me break your body down for you. First, right down your weight on a piece of paper, I am going to use 160 because it's a nice number for me to work with. Now add a zero to the end of that number, now I have 1600. This new number is the amount of calories that you would burn in a day if you were to sit at home on the sofa all day and watch TV. However, most of us don't sit at home for 24 hours so we tend to burn a little bit more. Now let me explain the way weight loss works. 1 pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories. That means in order to lose 1 pound you need to find a safe and good way to eliminate 3500 cal from your daily calorie intake. You guys are so smart, there is no safe way for anyone under 650 pounds to cut 3500 calories from there diet in one day. So let's try example if I burn 1600 cal a day and my goal is to lose 1 pound by the end of the week the plan would be as follows: I would eliminate 300 calories per day from my overall diet and then burn an additional 200 cal by working out, playing sports or any other form of activity. Ok, that's a total of 500 cal per day, 500 times seven equals 3500! Congratulations, you just lost 1 pound of fat! That's how weight loss works. Now your body is a very funny thing, it likes calories. So much so that if you don't eat enough calories your body will store calories from your previous meals and turn them into fat so that it can sustain it's self. This is why crazy diets that tell you to only eat 500 cal a day rarely ever work, and if they do work the results never last. Because once you see the results that you're looking for you stop eating 500 cal and go back to eating 1300 cal you going to gain weight. And usually you gained even more weight than you originally lost this is because your body doesn't trust you, it doesn't know if or when you will feed it again. So instead of burning calories the maximum amount of calories it can it holds on to them only burning the smallest amount needed to keep you going. Calories are what gives your body energy to do the things you love to do! So how do you get your body to trust you again? By eating at least five small meals or snacks a day. I know what you're thinking that's a lot of food and there is no way I can eat that many times a day. But I say, you can! So here's your homework for this week: for the entire week I want you to write down what you eat and what time you eat. Your paper should look something like this breakfast 7:00 a.m. (everything you ate), 1st snack 10:00 am (everything you ate), lunch 1:00 p.m. (everything you ate), 2nd snack 4:00 p.m.(everything you ate), and final dinner 7:00 p.m. (everything you ate). Try to keep a minimum of three hours in between each meal or snack And try not to eat within three hours of going to bed. That's all for right now the big thing is just getting used to eating more meals at smaller portions. Next time will talk about what it is you're actually eating and how to get full and be satisfied on healthier foods.