To loose weight, you must expand more calories than you take in. It’s that simple.
But you are not that simple. You have a certain frame size, your own specific metabolism, a particular amount of activity that you do each day and a different goals from someone else.
How can you know how much should you eat?
The amount you eat should fallow 2 goals:
Goal 1. You need to satisfy your nutritional needs – you need to take enough carbohydrates, fat, protein, vitamins, minerals to keep you healthy. That’s of number 1. importance.
Goal 2. Do you want to loose weight or not?
- If you want to maintain your weight – you need to eat enough calories to match your body’s energy needs. The calories you take in should equal the calories expended
- If you want to loose weight, you’ll need to eat slightly below your body’s energy needs so that you go into calorie debt
This is not that easy to achieve – getting enough nutrients from your diet, but not quite enough calories. But it can be done! Here is how:
- If you are trying to maintain your weight, you should eat when you’re truly physically hungry and stop before you feel stuffed
- If you want to loose fat, you should stop when you feel as if you’d still like to eat a little at the end of a meal. That will let you know that your body is warning you, it’s going to dip into your fat stores, which is exactly what you want.
Remember, this is not a diet you go into or off of, it’s a way of life, and it should feel very natural for you. To succeed, you need to start with it and stick with it for a long haul.
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