Track Calorie Intake To Lose Weight
According to a recent study, over 64% of North Americans are overweight, and 27% are classified as “obese”. We all know that North Americans have weight problems, but really think about that; over half of us are fat!
When you are overweight, everything is different. You are still a good person, but you feel more sluggish and unhealthy than you are supposed to.
Do you remember what it felt like to be a child? Did you ever think about your weight then? Probably not! When you were 10 years old and running around care-free in the summer, were you worried about how you looked in your swimsuit? Did you worry that your cellulite was showing, or that your stretch marks were exposed for the world to see?
When you were 10 years old, did you have to take a break from running around and playing, or were you able to run and play with all the energy and vigour in the world? When you are overweight, exercise is not easy. You know that you have to exercise in order to lose weight, but the idea of going for a jog or going to the gym is frightening because you know how out of shape you are and how difficult exercising is.
Well, you may not be able to drink from the fountain of youth, but you are able to get back into prime physical condition!
You are able to feel young, healthy and vital again!
If over half of us are overweight, and over a quarter of us are obese, that likely means that over half of us are looking for a way to lose weight. Most fat people want to get thin after all!
There are so many reasons to lose weight. You may want to lose weight for your health, for your vanity, or both. You may want to lose weight for a special event, like a wedding, or you may want to get ready for the bikini days of summer.
You may want to lose only five or ten pounds, or you may want to lose a larger amount of weight. You may be more concerned with dress sizes or inches than actual pounds.
No matter what, you need to know how to lose your unwanted weight, and with all of the different products and techniques on the market, how do you know which one is really going to work? The desire to lose the weight is clear, but there are so many different ways to choose from.
You have so many options! You can try the nationally recognized diet programs, such as Weight Watchers, Herbal Magic or Jenny Craig. They offer guidance, team support, and recipes/meal plans. They are also extremely expensive! They require large time commitments from you, because you need to attend meetings and seminars. You need to attend weekly, sometimes daily, weigh-ins.
You could try the drug store meal replacement options. Slim Fast, Nutri System, etc – the “shakes”. They offer you convenience in that they are pre-packaged meals, and they are less expensive than the aforementioned diet programs.
You can try the books. You know: “Dr. Atkins”, “The South Beach Diet”, and “Sugar Busters”. They all profess to be “the secrets of the stars” (Hollywood celebrities), they all offer advice, meal plans, and recipes. The cost of a book is usually negligible in the long run in comparison to the monthly costs of the meal replacement and diet programs.
What you need to know is what they all have in common. Wrapped in the guise of “the secret to weight loss”, each of the thousands of weight loss plans out there boils down to one real secret, and one real secret only:
They are all about tracking and reducing calorie intake to lose weight!
The big secret is that weight loss isn’t really a secret at all! It’s just a simple mathematical formula: burn more calories than you eat and your body will lose weight.
It’s easy, it’s natural.
Of course, you do need to know some specifics. You need to know how many calories YOUR BODY burns in a day, and how many calories YOUR BODY needs to take in per day. You need to understand YOUR metabolism. You need to know which foods to eat and which foods have more “good” calories than others. But in the end, it really is all about tracking and reducing calorie intake to lose weight.
In order to free yourself of the endless questions your face in terms of how to really lose weight, you need to realize the truth: that all you really need is to learn about calorie intake.
So learn! Learn to understand the math of your own body! Every one of us is unique; your body has different caloric needs than your friend’s does, but we all follow the universal law of “burn more than you eat to lose weight”.
So get started! Get yourself out of the “overweight” or “obese” category of most North Americans and into the wonderful category of healthy living!
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