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| Calories and You |
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February 12, 2009 |
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Calories are an important element of your body weight, and of your health in general. Consequently, if you try to
limit your calory intake too much, it can create a problem, as your metabolism will slow down accordingly and it will become harder and harder to continue losing weight.
As contrasting as it may seem, this is in part why it is highly recommended that you do not decrease by a disproportionate amount the calories you consume each and every day if you wish to continue reducing your weight in the long term.
Conversely, when your body consumes extra calories that exceed your body's energy needs, then these unnecessary calories will stock up in the form of fat cells.
As you can understand by reading the two sentences above, it is critically important that you learn to control your calorie intake in order to effectively lose weight. However, it is equally important that you also learn to control how to burn calories. You need to reach a delicate balance so that your energy intake is roughly equal to your energy burning.
To better understand how this works, you have to realize that your daily calorie needs are influenced by various factors such as your weight, your gender, your age and your way of life. In fact, more dynamic people need to intake a higher number of calories since they are burning more throughout the day due to their higher level of activity.
On average, each pound of body weight typically requires a 3500 calory intake. According to this average, in order
to shed just one single pound, you would have to consume approximately 3500 calories less than you usually do.
You can understand here that you just can't lose a pound each day if the only changes you make are based solely on
your diet, unless, obviously, you are already gobbling a substantial number of calories and just by reducing this
amount you would nonetheless get enough food and a high enough nutrition level to keep your body healthy.
It is true that supplements can quite often contribute to compensate for any deficit in the nutrition level. However, you have to make sure that you choose the right supplements.
If you lower your calory intake by just 100 calories on a daily basis over an entire year, you will have reduced by
36,500 your calory consumption, which would translate into a weight reduction of close to 10 pounds and a half. Not
bad for such a small change in your ordinary daily routine!
Fortunately, there exists several weight loss programs that you can follow to make your task even the more easier. You can indeed effortlessly achieve this weight reduction without making any significant changes to your lifestyle
and to your daily habits. All you need to do is simply to learn how you can do that, to learn tips and tricks, and then you have to stick to your well laid-out plan to achieve the desired success.
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