What might work for my metabolism may not work for yours. However, there are two constants that work for ever person. 1. Eating properly throughout each day, and 2. Getting proper exercise!
There are many weight loss diet programs available, and that is one of the big problems. Diets are exactly what people wanting to lose weight should stay away from. Diets don’t work! Diets kill your metabolism.
What happens is that once a person goes off a diet, their metabolism will be working so slow that when they start eating again, the body will start storing the food as fat. Usually a person ends up gaining more weight than what they originally lost, causing the person months or years later to go on another diet. This game ends up lasting a lifetime, or ends once the person gives up and just stays heavy.
Let's get back to the basics. It is going to be the food you eat that determines whether you are going to lose weight and get skinny, stay the same weight, or gain weight. If it is your goal to get skinny, then you need to make some changes and stay away from certain foods.
Stay Away From Processed or Packaged Foods.
Foods that contain additives pose a danger to your health. These ingredients include artificial sweeteners, preservatives and chemicals, which may not only cause you to gain weight, they may be very unhealthy for you!
Quit Drinking Coffee, Especially at the Coffee Houses:
The caffeine in coffee is addictive. Plus the coffee served in the coffee houses could be full of sugars or chemicals. Drinking coffee black on occasion would be fine, but every day full of sugars and chemicals is unhealthy. On the other hand, drinking organic unsweetened green tea every day will assist in weight loss.
Stop drinking alcohol.
Have you ever wondered why beer drinkers have beer bellies? Because a 12 oz bottle of light beer contains 110 calories and about 5 grams of bad carbohydrates. Even if you drink just one small bottle of beer every day, that could be the difference of gaining weight or keeping your weight the same.
Avoid Foods Containing Tons of Sugar.
Quit drinking store-bought sodas and fruit juices. They are full of sugars and chemicals. Limit your consumption of canned fruits and instead go fresh. Stay away from donuts, cakes, ice cream, pizza, pies, etc. You can have a treat once in a while, maybe once a week, but that's it!
More than just on occasion and you will just be feeding your body a bunch of fat causing foods with little or no nutritional value.
Table sugar has no nutritional value either and provides empty calories. Opt for honey or pure maple syrup, but while you are trying to lose weight, it is best to stay away from all sugars. Sugars inhibit weight loss.
Avoid Foods With High Salt Content.
Have you ever felt thirsty after gorging yourself at a restaurant, or after eating processed foods or any kind of unhealthy foods? This is, in large part, caused by the high sodium content. Salt retains water which can result in weight gain.
EXERCISE:
Nobody wants to exercise, but everybody needs to exercise. So, for you beginners, I will break it down to the simplest of exercises. Jogging or fast paced Walking! There really is no better fat buring exercise than fast pace walking, meaning walking within your targeted heart rate zone, or fat burning zone. This zone is keeping your heart rate between 55-65% of your maximun heart rate.
You want to work your way up to walking at this pace for 45 minutes, 5-6 days a week, either outside or on a treadmill. If you do this simple kind of fat burning exercise, along with eating properly, you will become a fat burning machine.
We have just barely touched on the negative cause and effect of certain foods and exercise. How Many Calories Do I Burn in a Day will be determined on how you address your nutrition, and how you address your particular lifestyle, meaning how active are you? How many calories burned in a day will be determined by these two factors.
