Saturday, March 20, 2010

Lose weight fast

Losing weight fast can be the done by counting and taking track of the number of calories you eat and drink. Counting calories might seem funny and hard. I mean why you have to count the number of calories you eat in a day and have it written out. That means that you have to take note of all the things you have eaten that day and then actually know the number of calories they contain. It is not that hard though, a lot of people are counting calories and it is working for them. You can try it if you want to and it is pretty simple.
To start, wake up, eat like you will normally eat, and count the amount of calories in everything you eat and everything you drink and keep track of it in a diary or on a piece of paper or on a computer somewhere. At the end of that day, add up all the number of calories you ate or drank. Try to be as exact as possible. From the day after you counted your calories, start by reducing the number of calories you ate and drank by 500. Let us say the day you counted your calories, you eat and drank 2500 calories, the day after you should reduce the calories you eat and drink to 2000 calories. For the whole of that week, you should consume the new number of calories i.e. 500 calories less than you normally eat. Do this every week i.e. reduce your calories consumption by 500 and stick to that for the rest of the week.

This does really look simple to me since most of your packed or processed food and drinks have the amount of calories contained written on them. In addition to counting your calories, you can also spread out what you are eating over the day. Let us say you eat 3 big meals in a day, you can spread it out to 5 smaller meals in a day. This will help you spread out the calories and speed up your metabolism. Counting of calories alone will not work as effectively as adding cardio workouts to it. Jog, swim, take an aerobics class, walk, jump rope, ride a bike, any workout that will be convenient and interesting to you. At the end of the week check your weight and see if it has not dropped.

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