Some Tips To Lose Weight In A Natural Way

Here are some tips to lose weight in a natural way. The first of our tips to lose weight in a natural way is that there is no way to get around the law of the conservation of matter and energy. You must accept this for what it is. It is a law, like the law of gravity. Anyone who tells you that you can lose weight without burning off more energy than you take in is lying to you.

The law of the conservation of energy states that matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed. They can only change form. How this applies to weight loss can be found in our understanding of what a calorie is. A calorie is a unit of heat measurement. Think of it as the temperature at which something burns.

Imagine a gram of lead and a gram of paper. How much heat will it take to get the paper to ignite? How much heat will it take to get the lead to ignite? This is how to think about calories. You can eat, or at least swallow, a gram of lead or a gram of paper. In either case, your weight increases by the same amount, one pound. But the heat that you will have to generate to use up those grams is wildly different.

This is why changing the way you eat and changing the way you are active are both required to achieve sustainable weight loss. Fasting and diuretics will lose weight, but they are not sustainable. You will either die from malnutrition or you will relapse and put the lost weight back on.

Most of the weight lost in fasting, and close to one hundred percent of the weight lost due to diuretics, is water. The caloric content of water is very low. In general, the percentage of your body weight that is water, the healthier you are. Infants can be as much as seventy-five percent water. This percentage declines throughout life. The average adult is about fifty-seven percent water.

Fat has far more calories than water. Just like it takes more heat to transform lead into energy than paper, it takes more exercise to use up fat than it takes to use up water. Obesity can lower the water content of the body to as little as forty-five percent. The average for an adult is in the fifty-eight to fifty-six percent range.

Changing your exercise regime in an unsustainable way ensures failure. If you can start jogging or lifting weights are take up martial arts, more power to you. But if these are unrealistic, simply walking regularly is enough to increase your caloric output if it is more exercise than what you are currently doing.

Of all the tips to lose weight in a natural way, these are the two most important. Tip number one is that you must accept that to lose weight you have to burn up more calories than you consume. Tip number two is that you must lower your caloric and increase your exercise routine in ways that are sustainable.

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