The basic formula for weight loss is easy: burn more calories than you consume. If you’re going to eat something, then make sure it fits within your daily recommended intake of calories and nutrients or else you’ll end up losing weight. It’s a simplified version of what’s actually going on in your body, but the main rule of thumb is to always burn more than you eat. This is what will ultimately help with your weight loss, but there’s a couple of things that need to be mentioned.
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Starvation is not a healthy way to lose weight
When people see the calories in vs out rule, they instantly assume that starvation is the best way to lose weight. While it can actually make you lose weight quickly, it’s not exactly healthy for you and can lead to serious health problems if you’re trying a “crash diet” of sorts. Take a look at this article from http://www.studio-fit.co.uk/ and you’ll see there are plenty of ways to lose weight without having to starve yourself. There are options for short-term dieting (such as water fasting) but these require some serious help from a medical professional if you want to get the best benefit from them without putting your own health at risk.
Labels don’t tell the whole story
It doesn’t matter if you’re buying supplements from http://hcgdiet.com/ or browsing your local supermarket—labels don’t tell everything. A good example of this is in protein. Roughly 30% of all the calories you consume from protein is actually used in order to digest it because of how our bodies work. Protein also helps to make you feel fuller and also boost your metabolic rate. In the case of supplements, these can affect everyone’s body in a different way and what works for one person might not work for another. People that say “calories are calories” are completely misled by the simplification of calories in vs calories out, so it’s important to get a better understanding of how our bodies work and how an understanding of nutrition can change our perception of certain foods.
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The link between positivity and weight loss
Losing weight requires you to be positive. If you’re stressing out over exercising and you can’t seem to make time for it, or if you try and find any excuse you can to get out of it, then you’re not in a positive mood. This means you’re going to skip workouts, you’ll end up cheating with your diet and you won’t see any results. Positivity goes a long way in many things in life, and the link with weight loss is all too real to ignore. You can say that 100 calories of good food vs 100 calories of bad food is an easy choice to make, but when you associate that bad food with positive thoughts and the good food with negative ones, then your brain has already made the decision for you and sooner or later, you’ll sink back into old habits. In short, stay positive when attempting to lose weight because it’s perhaps the biggest contributing factor to your success.
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