Lose Weight: Why, When…How?

This is the best time when you should loose some extra pounds for good! You have to be least heard and follow the same old formula “Eat Less Calories than you expend and you lose weight” You get motivated and ready to start for a new journey since this may not be your first step towards fulfilling the desires of loosing weight. There are ample of diets that promise you to loose weight faster. However, some kind of myth and conflicting weight loss information may put you into jeopardy about what to and what not to choose! Ultimately, you fall into the cobweb of commercial weight loss diet and pills with their penetrating marketing skills and when they don’t work, you end up commenting “Diets don’t work!”

The point is, the whole practice of weight loss is about understanding how the body looses and gains weight that helps individual getting good understanding and control over their own weight. The whole change in the weight is commonly due to two elements- one is the food and another is the activity level.

Impact of calorie intake and activity level

When someone consumes more calories than the amount he burns off through exercises and workouts, is sure to gain weight. If someone is able to consume equal amount of calories, he will be able to burn off them on a regular basis. Finally, when an individual consumes fewer calories, he will burn it off and will be able to loose weight.

However, since it is important to consume the right amount of calories for weight loss, there isn’t any hard and fast rule that you will have to keep a strict count on your calories everyday. The point is, when an individual wants to loose weight, he/she can adjust the food/calorie intake accordingly and stick to normal eating habits.
This doesn’t mean keeping a strict calorie count each and every day but an individual should be able to judge how much food his body will require each day to maintain a steady weight. If the individual then wishes to loose or gain weight they will then be able to adjust their food intake. A healthy weight loss or gain is a gradual process therefore only slight change to normal eating habits is needed.

If diets don’t work

Whenever, there is a long term weight loss plan on the cards, it is better to collect information about various diet plans. Generally, diets mean the limiting amount of food and discarding all the ‘bad’ foods viz. chocolate, cake, pizza and chips. Thus, it is a common tendency of the individual to crave for ‘bad’ foods. Therefore the diet should have a balance of all foods so as to avoid such cravings that can lead to total diet failure.

Burn the calories

The human body works like a machine and so it requires fuel in form of food. If an individual consume excess food than what he/she will be able to burn, the excess food will be stored as a fat in the body. Exercise is the best way to burn calories and if you are not able to go to a gym then performing household tasks will give you a good form of exercise. Tasks like gardening, washing, dusting, hovering etc. are some of the activities that can help you burning unwanted calories.