Nutrition and Weight Loss Ideas

You probably wonder where I disappeared to — and I don’t blame you. I did promise to be back here and finish this article on Friday, but the aspects of moving got in the way — again!

So, my apologies.

Remember, we were talking about the fact that it is easier for men to lose weight than it is for women — and how the simple formula of consuming fewer calories than you burn will cause you to lose weight, no matter whether you’re a male or a female.

One of the smartest things anyone could do in trying to lose weight is to try to gain a better understanding of their daily calories — both in terms of those that they burn as well as those they consume.

The most important thing to remember about your weight is the relationship between calorie intake (from eating) and calorie burn (from activity). To lose weight, you need to burn more calories than you’re taking in. To maintain your weight, intake and burn should be equal.

If your weight is presently holding steady, and losing weight is part of your nutrition and weight loss program, you’ll need to burn off 3,500 calories to lose one pound of fat. Therefore, if you walk four times a week for 30 minutes each (see chart below), you’ll lose a pound of fat in less than six weeks — if you change nothing in your daily calorie intake. Add that same amount of walking to a diet that cuts 500 calories a day from what you’ve been eating and you’ll lose about seven pounds in six weeks.

Check the chart below to see how many calories your favorite aerobic activities burn off in just one 30-minute session:

Once you figure out how many calories you burn in a day you can then simply keep track of how many calories you consume. So long as you’re consuming less than you’re burning, you’ll be losing weight.

In fact, the best exercise anyone could undertake to better understand eating patterns and weight loss is to spend some time tracking daily calories. If you don’t know where they’re coming from, it’s going to be extremely hard to know what to change.

Remember too that “eating healthy” means a lot more than just controlling calories. Sure, you can lose weight on an all ice-cream diet and gain weight on an all salad diet, it just depends how much of each you have. Eat the right kind of food in proper portions, combine that with plenty of exercise, plus track your calorie intake, and you’ll not only lose weight, you’ll also feel good!

When you’re making decisions about how to control your weight, you need to be able to live with those decisions. You need to be able to answer the question, “Could you live like this for the rest of your life?” with an unqualified and resounding “Yes!” Otherwise, you’ll simply be on a temporary diet and as soon as you go back to old habits, the calories will return.

That will be it for today — I’ll be back soon with some more information to help you with your nutrition and weight loss program. I’m not promising that I’ll be writing every day. We are in the throes of moving and that is taking an exorbitant amount of time — time that is away from the computer. We’re hoping to be back to a more normal routine by early June. So, I hope you’ll bear with me.

As always, remember to follow a good-fat — good-carb diet. And do whatever you can, within your doctors recommendations, to keep up with the exercise part of your program. The benefits are priceless.

Here is some information about the nutritional supplements I add to my nutrition and weight loss program. These have helped me more than I would have ever imagined. I’m not kidding. Click on the links in the box below — you won’t be sorry!

Have a great day. I’ll be back soon with some more nutrition and weight loss thoughts for you.

And give the South Beach Diet a try. That’s what I follow and it sure has worked for me. Here’s where to go to learn more:

Shanti,

Ron
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