Weight loss is about finding a balance. You have to find activities to fit your lifestyle that are both healthy and reasonably achievable. You can work out 3 hours a day and you will lose weight. But if you do work out 3 hours a day, you are likely to lose ground in other areas of your life. Sacrificing your sanity to lose weight is not a healthy life style.
There are two ways to lose weight. There are pounds you lose because of healthy eating choices, and pounds you lose because of exercise and physical exertion. According to most nutritionists, one pound of fat equals 3500 calories. So, to lose one pound you must either cut 3500 calories from your diet, or burn 3500 calories via exercise. If you were to try and cut 3500 calories or burn 3500 calories, that would be an example of a unhealthy imbalance. Attempting either one of those will not only take too long, but will also, more than likely undermine the other. If you cut 3500 calories over the course of 3 days, you would not have the energy to be active (which is why you want to lose weight in the first place). And if you burned 3500 calories in three days you would need to eat more than you normally would to have that kind of energy.
The healthy balance to lose weight would be to find a balance between cutting calories and burning calories. How do you lose the first 30? Figure out how many calories you need to maintain your current weight. Then the simplest, healthiest way, to lose weight is pick a number of calories you can realistically and eliminate from your lifestyle. If for example you weighed 325, it takes 4290 calories to maintain that weight. Now that's a lot of calories… You An easily cut 1000 calories a day a day to lose weight. 1000 calories a day means losing a pound every 3 and a half days. Next I split it right down the middle in order to cut 500 calories and burn 500 calories. Now both of those numbers are not hard to accomplish. That is still 3790 calories you could eat and you only have to work out 30 minutes a day to burn 500 calories. So, when you start planning your lifestyle changes to lose weight, keep balance in mind to keep you healthy both physically and mentally.
David Ogden
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