Weight Loss Is In The Calories, Part 2

From the previous article, weight loss is in the calories, part 1, we discussed how calories are important to loose weight. In part 2, we shall discuss how many calories you will need to cut back to lose weight and achieve your desired weight and size. Think of your calorie maintenance level as your password that will unlock your quest to lose weight. So how much calories do you need to lose to lose weight and burn that annoying fat?

As stated earlier, each person has to consume a certain number of calories to maintain their weight. If one consumes more than this number, they gain weight, but our goal is not weight gain but weight loss. Hence, you must consume less than your daily calorie maintenance level to lose weight. Lets say your daily CML is 2,500. You would have to consume less than 2,500 calories to lose weight. Thus you must aim to make your diet contain less calories than your intake. Create that all important calorie deficit. If you started consuming 2,000 calories a day, you would end up losing weight. You would be burning more calories than you eat.

You gained weight in the first place by eating more than your calorie maintenance level. Weight loss is easy and simple. You just need to reverse this. Eat less than you need to maintain your weight. So lets say you start eating 2,000 calories per day. This is the ideal number here. In this case, you are burning 500 calories each day. You realize that the calorie maintenance level applies to daily, not weekly. In a matter of 7 days, you will have burnt 3,500 calories (= 7 * 500).

3,500 calories make up one pound. I like working with one pound a week weight loss. It makes things easier. So if you bu
3,500 calories a week, you have lost one pound in weight. Cutting your calories in small steps is easy and will deliver long term results that you will be happy with. Cutting your maintenance level by alot is unhealthy and all you end up losing lose is water and muscle, which makes the weight lost be gained back fast.

My advice to you would be to start small and continue cutting back on calories slowly so that your body doesn't give up too quickly and feel tired all of a sudden. Careful reduction of calories from your diet is guaranteed to make you loose weight for the long run and it also helps you keep it away. So how about working out, we look at that in part 3.