If you are among the millions of US citizens that are overweight, you might be at your wits end within your quest to acquire an effective weight-loss solution that may do the job for you. Trying to lose weight is one of the most difficult issues that we can undertake. We need to balance our desire for instant gratification with our desire to do this in a risk-free manner. After all, the total effect is to become healthier. We gain nothing if in our need to slim down rapidly we find ourselves making unsafe choices. So how can we go about reducing weight effectively while still doing so in a healthy and risk-free way?
The most effective way is to take in fewer calories than you burn on a daily basis. Indeed, it’s just that easy. If you’re taking in enough calories to maintain your metabolism going (usually about 2000 a day) but less than the amount your body will burn with the amount of work that you have your system doing, then you will reduce weight. The key is usually to determine what the magic number is that keeps your metabolism from entering emergency mode and slowing down, and the amount of work output you have your system perform. Of course there exists a very simple method to get around this issue.
You can solve the issue of ensuring that you receive adequate calories to maintain your metabolism up whilst remaining under your burn rate by increasing the burn rate. This simply means that you need to increase the amount of work that you ask your system to do. This can be done by undertaking a fitness plan, but if that isn’t something that you can do or are inclined to do at the moment, then you might want to begin by simply making small changes in your everyday life that enable you to get moving more. These adjustments can be as simple as using the stairs rather than the elevator, parking further from the entrance of the store, parking on the lowest level of an underground garage or the topmost level of a parking structure and walking to the building entry ways, or simply sending documents to a printer in another department or on another floor instead of the one on your desk or right outside your workplace door. All these are small things that you can do to increase the amount of work output that you ask from your body, and subsequently increase the amount of calories which you burn.
Another way to help is by reducing the amount of fat that you take in. You can do this by using a technique called the “fat formula method”. Look at the back of everything that you want to consume. Take the number of calories and multiply it by 9. Now divide that number by the total grams of fat and you’ll have a decimal number. If the number is below twenty then you are good. If the number is above twenty walk away and never look at it again. If you do this with everything that you take in then you know that your total fat consumption won’t ever exceed 20%. Here you’ll eventual start to lose weight because 20% fat is the body’s threshold for fat storage. 20% is what we need to function effectively, anything above that we put away for later. DO NOT LET YOUR BODY BECOME A FAT WAREHOUSE! Maintain your consumption below 20% and benefit from the resulting weight-loss. Good luck and have fun with the new, thinner you.
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