Most people today want to lose fat, but this is often easier said than done. Generally, this is because people gain fat in two separate ways. They gain fat by eating too heavily, and consuming foods that have a high fat content, but they also gain fat by being too sedentary and not exercising enough. When they diet properly, they stop getting so much fat from their food sources, but this does not get rid of the fat stores that they have accumulated.
In order to do that, they must exercise. Unfortunately, exercise is a dirty word to a lot of people today. They either do not have time in their already busy schedules, or they simply have not found an activity that they enjoy enough to continue exercising.
In order to lose fat, though, they must find something that they can do to burn calories. If a person eats less and does not exercise, some fat will be burned. The body will use up any fat stores that it has in order to provide energy for living. Also, however, the body will slow down the processes that it has in order to conserve energy.
A person may feel sluggish and tired quite easily, and not want to do as much. This results in further inactivity, slowing down the using of the fat stores. In other words, weight loss can occur simply be eating less without exercising more, but the loss of fat will not be as dramatic and quick if exercise is not incorporated into the routine.
Exercising results in the burning of fat, but also in the speeding up of a person's metabolism. When the metabolic rate is higher, a person's fat stores are used up more quickly, and a person has more energy overall. This results in feeling better and looking better, while the fat deposits are quickly diminished.
This will not happen overnight, and it takes time to lose fat, especially if there is a lot of it. However, a person who takes the time to exercise and eat right can see a dramatic improvement in only a few short months. When losing fat, too, a person should keep in mind that muscle - which is built during exercise - weighs more than fat does. If an individual is working to lose fat and he or she is not losing much weight, this does not mean that the fat loss is not working.
A lot of people have this idea that the less you eat the more weight you will lose, well that is true, but a big portion of that weight won't be fat. In fact, if you are practically starving yourself by only intaking 900 or so calories a day you can be sure that you are also losing muscle mass, which weighs more than fat. So, if you're losing something that weighs more than fat, it is only logical that you are going to lose weight, but muscle is not what you want to lose, if it is, I suggest you stop reading and find another place to help you accomplish the goals you want to accomplish.
However, if your goal is to eliminate fat while maintaing or even increasing muscle mass then you should listen up. In order to lose fat and lose it effectively, meaning without the fear of it coming back in one or two weeks you need to EAT! Yeah, I said it, you need to eat. Now I didn't say that you need to eat like a pig.
An easy way to find out how many calories you should be eating is to take your body weight and multiply it by 15. Once you do this, subtract that number by 500 or so. An example of this is from my own personal experience. I weighed in at about 220 pounds five months ago. So I did my calculations. 220 x 15=3300 calories. Then 3300 minus 500 equals 2800. Therefore, my daily calorie intake was 2800 calories. Following this regime I am now down to 198 pounds.
The only time I would not recommend this way of going about cutting off those pounds is if you are in the 300 and up club. At this point you would still use your body weight multiplied by 15, but instead of you subtracting 500, I would recommend you subtracting 2000 calories, but no more than that.
Another thing to note, is that it is not good enough to simply cut these calories from your diet. Believe it or not, you do have to exercise as well. Surprise, Surprise right?
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