Today everyone is worried about consuming too many calories.
What you may not realize it that by cutting back on your calories too drastically causes your metabolism to slow down.
This makes your weight loss harder to maintain.
For long term weight loss, it is not recommended to reduce your calories excessively.
Most of us also know that if we have more calories that what our body actually uses, they get stored as fat.
So, you can see there is a problem if you eat too many calories or too few calories! In order to lose the weight that you want you will need to get your calorie levels just right.
In order to determine what your daily requirement for calories should be you will need to consider things like age, weight and sex.
An active person needs more calories since they burn more throughout the day.
Just for comparison, let's consider that for every pound that you weigh, each pound equals about 3,500 calories.
If you consume 3,500 less calories on any given day you should be able to lose 1 pound, based on these figures.
Trying to lose a pound a day just by dieting would mean not getting enough food and nutrition to stay healthy.
It would also be almost impossible to do unless you are now consuming a huge amount of calories! Vitamins and supplements are helpful for assuring good nutrition when dieting, but should not take the place of a well-balanced meal plan.
A more reasonable goal is to consider trying to reduce your intake of calories by about 100 calories a day.
Looking at it that way, after one year your calories will be reduced by 36,500.
The weight loss you should achieve by doing that is approximately 10-1/2 pounds.
Most people should find this goal fairly easy to accomplish without making major changes that could be hard to maintain.
What you may not realize it that by cutting back on your calories too drastically causes your metabolism to slow down.
This makes your weight loss harder to maintain.
For long term weight loss, it is not recommended to reduce your calories excessively.
Most of us also know that if we have more calories that what our body actually uses, they get stored as fat.
So, you can see there is a problem if you eat too many calories or too few calories! In order to lose the weight that you want you will need to get your calorie levels just right.
In order to determine what your daily requirement for calories should be you will need to consider things like age, weight and sex.
An active person needs more calories since they burn more throughout the day.
Just for comparison, let's consider that for every pound that you weigh, each pound equals about 3,500 calories.
If you consume 3,500 less calories on any given day you should be able to lose 1 pound, based on these figures.
Trying to lose a pound a day just by dieting would mean not getting enough food and nutrition to stay healthy.
It would also be almost impossible to do unless you are now consuming a huge amount of calories! Vitamins and supplements are helpful for assuring good nutrition when dieting, but should not take the place of a well-balanced meal plan.
A more reasonable goal is to consider trying to reduce your intake of calories by about 100 calories a day.
Looking at it that way, after one year your calories will be reduced by 36,500.
The weight loss you should achieve by doing that is approximately 10-1/2 pounds.
Most people should find this goal fairly easy to accomplish without making major changes that could be hard to maintain.