You’d be surprised how easy trimming the fat off your body is once you apply the correct techniques to losing weight. Below are the basic, proven ways to lose weight that when applied consistently and correctly will result in weight loss.
First, create a calorie deficit of 300 calories each day from here on out (as long as you eat over 2,000 calories already). Most weight loss blogs will preach this, but few people ever actually do it. By eating less total calories, you’ll start to lose weight automatically.
If you really want to add fuel to the fire, exercise and burn off another 300 calories 5 times a week. This basically doubles your calorie burning to 600 on weekdays with deficits of 300 on Saturday and Sunday. The result is you will burn 3,600 calories a week which will net you just over a pound of weight loss per week.
What’s great is this basic plan is completely flexible. For example, you can choose to skip a 300 calorie snack or merely lighten your three largest meals by 100 calories. With exercise, you can go for a brisk 30 minute walk or burn your calories in intervals throughout the day. Even better, if you miss your numbers on one day, you can make them up on the next by turning your efforts up a notch.
What this type of plan does is completely extracts all the emotions and excuses out of weight loss. You simply have to meet these numbers and that’s the bottom line. If you take a hard line, no excuses approach, you will easily succeed and snowball your weight loss to meet your goals.
Before you implement these two basic foundations to weight loss, count your calories over the next four days with no regard to how many you consume. After four days, take the total calories and divide it by four to determine your average caloric intake per day. Whatever that average is (as long as it’s above 2,000), eat 300 less calories per day.
You may also want to walk on a treadmill and get a good idea on how long it takes you to burn 300 calories at your average walking pace. You can then use this time to approximate when you have burned 300 calories from walking. With other exercises like sit-ups or cycling, you may need to approximate.
If you follow the numbers strictly, you will lose weight. Your body won’t have a choice but to drop the pounds.