Fast Weight Loss: It may be easier than you think!

If a weight loss program seems too good to be true – for
example, if it offers you incredibly fast weight loss, like a
pound a day or more – you have good reason to be suspicious. No
legitimate program can rightly claim to help you lose incredible
amounts of weight at this type of speed – it just wouldn’t be
healthy, and would not normally occur ina a healthy body.
However, there are natural methods of fast weight loss that may
allow you to lose a substantial amount of weight in a short
time. It’s all a matter of balancing how many calories you take
in and how many you burn. If you want to stay at the same
weight, you should ingest as many calories as you burn. If you
want to lost weight, you should burn more than you ingest. If
you want your weight loss to be fast, you should burn a lot more
than you ingest. For this to happen, you have to cut your food
intake and increase your exercise all at the same time.

There are not tricks to weight loss, really. You just have to
burn more than you take in – plain and simple. Programs such as
Weight Watchers can help you keep track of what you eat, but so
can various books that are on the market. Then, enrolling at a
gym is your first step to guaging how much you burn while
exercising, and improving that figure. A lot of gym equipment
tells you how many calories you have burned while you use it.
This is a good first step, though it is, of course, just an
estimate based on your weight and how much energy you are
putting out. A personal trainer (available at many gyms, even
community center gyms) can also give you information like that.

It doesn’t stop there, though. Fast weight loss requires you to
increase your activity level every chance you get – walking
instead of driving to the store, taking the stairs instead of
the elevator, and so on. Then, look at decreasing your calorie
intake – but don’t go under the levels recommended by the board
of health, generally 1200 for a woman and 1500 for a man. Some
diets do take you below this calorie level, but at a risk to
your health – it’s hard to meet your nutritional requirments
when eating a restrictive diet. In fact, depending on your
activity level, you may well need to eat more than that minimum
number of calories daily. Pay attention to how hungry you are,
and learn to differentiate true hunger from just wanting to eat.
A weight loss program should allow you to eat enough food so
that you don’t feel hungry.

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