Interested in taking off a few pounds? A few dozen? Well, whatever your goals are, it's hard to find the right diet since there are so many 'miracle' diets around. But! If you want to know how to lose weight the healthy way, here's 5 tips that need to be a part of any diet you try.
#1 Metabolism. Inside our bodies is a furnace... same as a steam engine, you throw on more fuel to keep everything running. If you have too much fuel laying around, what do you do? Stoke the flames! About 60% of our energy is burned just by being alive... even if you exercise a ton, you won't even be able to equal what you burn if you have a faster metabolism.
#2 a lot of people might think the best way to get rid of all that extra fuel is to stop bring more in... so you'll find people living on a 1,200 calorie diet, or even a 1,000 calorie diet or less. Fasting can have some very big medical/spiritual benefits, but it's NOT for losing weight, and it's NOT a good idea to fast too much until you've gotten pretty healthy already.
#3 So what's a person to do then? You still need to burn more calories than you eat, but you need to avoid sending your body into starvation mode. So eat more! One day a week, sit down and enjoy. If you need 2,000 calories a day to maintain your weight based on your body size and activity level, then eat 1,600 six days a week, and then on Sunday feel free to have as much as 2,500.
#4 But wait... won't that slow down my weight loss? Look at it this way... 1,600 is 400 less calories than you needed.... 400 * 6 = 2,400. That means even if you were to eat 800 calories extra on the 7th day, you'll still be 1,700 in the good! You'll eat more, and reach your dieting goals without having to worry about hitting a wall!
#5 be smart about it. It's okay to eat whatever kinds of foods you want, your body needs fat and carbohydrates and calories to function well. But don't eat too many fried processed foods, that's the main thing you need to work on. The closer something is to the way God made it, the better you can feel about adding it into your diet however you like So get going! Don't starve yourself, and there's no need to cut out everything that's delicious in life... eat more to lose weight, and forget about the low calorie diets. They might seem to work in the short term, but you'll soon find it comes with a price.
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