The nubmber 1 way to lose weight

Each bite of food you eat contains energy in the form of calories. You need to consume these calories for your body to function properly. But most of us consume more calories than we need each day. This creates a calorie surplus or calorie excess. The extra calories are stored as fat.

To lose the weight, you create a calorie deficit. This energy deficit happens when you eat less during the day. If your body doesn’t get the calories it needs to perform all of its necessary functions, you create a calorie deficit. 

When you create a calorie deficit, your body gets energy or fuel from the stored fat. This is the extra fat that you carry on your hips or thighs, in your belly and throughout your body. Stored fat is stored energy. Your body can use it to keep moving instead of using energy from food.

When your body burns fat for energy, you lose weight.

The Proper Calorie Deficit to Lose Weight

While it seems simple to make a calorie deficit and lose weight, a lot of dieters seem to struggle with the process. It isn’t as easy as it may seem. You will need to create a specific energy deficit for weight loss to happen. Researchers have estimated that you need to create a calorie deficit of 3500 calories per week to lose one pound of fat.

While the total number of calories seems a bit high, the weekly energy deficit can be broken down into daily deficits which makes it a little bit more manageable. If you create a calorie deficit of 500 calories per day, you’ll reach a total deficit of 3500 calories per week. Which doesn’t seem as much as it did when 3500 was put into the equation.

How to Create a Calorie Deficit?

Creating a calorie deficit isn’t as hard as you think it is. You most certainly do not and should not starve yourself. There are three healthy ways to create a calorie deficit for weight loss.

• Eating less food is a big way to create a calorie deficit. Getting your portion sizes down, cutting back on snacking during the day and you should try to choose lower calorie foods at meal times, this will help you consume lower calories through out the day. If you reduce your calorie intake enough, you will create a calorie deficit big enough to lose weight.

• Getting more active. The number of calories your body will need each day, also depends on how active you are. This will include the exercise that you are doing every day and the non-exercise activities. If you increase the number of calories your body will need, but you are still only consuming the same number of calories from food, you will then have reached calorie deficit.

• Combining diet and exercise. Some of he most successful people are the ones that combine both, diet and exercise. This could mean that they might be eating 250 calories less a day and then going for a 60-minute walk to burn an extra 250 calories. This would then total the calorie deficit of 500 calories, which would be enough for the day. If you then make each other day in the week similar you are then going to reach your 3500 for the week to create a weight loss.

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