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If you have ever struggled with losing weight you know how difficult it can be when you think you are doing really well as you eat healthy food from a calories loss menu and the pounds still just do not come off. Why is it so hard for people to lose weight? There are a number of different factors that can make it much more difficult for some people to lose weight than others so if this is you, one of these factors might be contributing to your weight loss problem.

Medical conditions affect many people who may have undiagnosed medical conditions like diabetes, thyroid problems, or metabolic disorders and these can make it difficult for them to lose weight. If you have tried eating healthy calories loss foods along with exercise but still can not seem to lose weight, you should make an appointment with your doctor for some tests to rule out a medical problem that may keep you from doing this. Also, if you are taking medication for another health problem you should check out the side effects of these. Sometimes, the medication that you take for one condition might make it hard for you to lose weight.

Portion Control or lack of this affects many people who can not lose weight even when they are eating healthy calories loss food because they simply do not realize how much food they eat. If you are only eating healthy food but you eat triple the amount that you should, you will not lose weight. Portion control is crucial to weight loss success and keeping a food diary is a great way to keep track of how much food you actually eat every day.

Breaking bad habits is not easy to do and if you have battled your weight for many years you have probably picked up some very bad eating habits. Giving into cravings, denying yourself meals, picking the wrong types of foods to eat or eating when you are happy or sad are all bad habits that people pick up through the years. It is tough to break bad habits so if you want to enjoy a healthy weight loss and keep this off, you have to be committed to changing your behavior for good, not just for a few weeks or a few months.

Not exercising is a significant blocker to weight loss, so if you think that you do not need to exercise to lose weight because you are following a calories loss menu, think again. Controlling your calorie intake will help you maintain your weight but if you want to lose weight the only way to burn calories is through exercise. Adding a few aerobic workouts that last more than 30 minutes per week can make a big difference to the extent of your weight loss and how long you can keep this off.

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Sadly, emotional eating can interrupt your healthy eating and prevent you from losing weight on a consistent basis. Too often our efforts to lose weight come unstuck when we indulge in emotional eating. Using these tips and tricks can help you control your emotional eating, stay on your calories loss diet and enjoy long term weight loss.

Know if you are really hungry especially the difference between being physically hungry and just eating out of emotion. If you have been an emotional eater your whole life you might not understand the difference so learn to recognize that when you are really hungry your stomach will growl and you will feel a little weak and tired. That is your body’s way of saying that it needs fuel, so try letting yourself get really hungry before a meal just so that you can feel what it feels like when your body is hungry.

Recognize your emotional eating triggers by keeping a little notebook and a pen with you and write down when you feel like eating and what you want to eat and soon you will start to notice a pattern emerging. Do you always crave fried food after a meeting with your boss instead of meals you would eat on a calories loss diet? Do you want cake the minute you walk in the door after the evening commute or do you need a double cheeseburger at lunch just to get through the afternoon?

Identifying the situations and the times of the day that make you crave certain foods is the key to stopping emotional eating so if you know that you will crave something sweet when you get home to dull the stress of your trip, you can find another way to handle that stress that does not involve food. Maybe you need to listen to music for 15 minutes after you get home, or have a cup of tea with a calories loss snack like low fat cheese on a cracker as you read the newspaper, or maybe a hot shower will help.  Find another way to alleviate the stress that makes you want to eat something sweet because dealing with that stress in a healthier way will help you lose weight and manage your stress more effectively.

Do not buy comfort food because if it is not in the house, you will not eat it; it is just that simple. When you are feeling blue and you want something sweet or something fried as a comfort, if it is not in the house are you really going to take the time to drive to the store and buy this comfort food or go to the fast food restaurant to get something? Most people will not most of the time, so if you are craving something and you do not have it in the house you will look for a substitute rather than going out to buy whatever it is you are craving.

Do not use food as comfort and instead of reaching for the ice cream when you are depressed or lonely, find other ways to comfort yourself. Call a friend, take a hot bubble bath, treat yourself to a manicure, write in a journal to try and discover what is making you sad or lonely. There are hundreds of ways you can comfort yourself besides reaching for food so learn to use other things to get you through a tough day and this leaves room for you to continue to eat calories loss meals when you need to.

Keep healthy food in the house because if you have healthy snacks in the house you can use those as a substitute for comfort food when a craving hits. Instead of candy bars, keep granola bars in the cupboard and instead of chips, keep popcorn or sliced veggies or other calories loss foods around because making healthy substitutions for the foods you crave is a very practical way to deal with emotional eating. After all, cravings happen but eating healthy snacks in place of the high fat, high calorie comfort food is a practical and responsible way to deal with food cravings when they happen.

Wait 30 minutes and when a craving does hit, wait it out by setting a timer, looking at your watch, whatever you need to do. But wait a full 30 minutes before acting on that craving. If you still are craving that food after 30 minutes, allow yourself to have a half portion of it, but you will find that usually after 30 minutes that craving will disappear.

Get exercise because exercise is not just good for burning calories as when you exercise, your brain releases serotonin and endorphins, which make you feel good and make you happy. Twenty minutes or more of exercise can trigger the same feeling of peace and happiness and well-being that you get from food. Emotional eating is not responsible for your entire weight gain, but it can be a factor in why it is hard for you to make a consistent weight loss. Using these tips and tricks to control your emotional eating will help you stick with a calories loss diet and might be the way for you to start losing weight and keeping it off.

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One of the most common mistakes that people make when it comes to weight loss is setting unrealistic expectations about how much weight they need to lose and how fast they can lose it. Setting unrealistic weight goals is really sabotaging your calories loss diet and your efforts to lose weight. That is why it is important to have some tools you can use to set realistic weight loss goals for yourself.

Experts in weight loss say that a healthy weight loss rate is one to two pounds per week and that is not a lot. If you tell yourself that you must lose ten pounds a week or that you want to lose fifty pounds by summer you are not being realistic. If you set unrealistic goals and then fail, you will be tempted to go off your calories loss diet, thinking that you are a failure, so utilize these techniques to make sure that your goals are specific and achievable.

Lower your expectations because losing one to two pounds per week is healthy and if you weigh yourself at the end of the week and you have only lost one or two pounds, do not consider that a failure because it is not. Congratulate yourself on sticking to your calories loss diet, losing that weight and focus on losing another one to two pounds the next week. If you celebrate each pound lost you will be motivated to keep losing weight and you will be losing weight in a healthy way with far greater prospects of keeping it off.

Think in percentages, not pounds as weight loss is not just about losing a set amount of weight.  If you want to get down to a healthy weight and stay there you should focus on losing 10-20% of your whole body weight, not just the amount of pounds you want to lose. You may be surprised about the amount of weight you need to lose for a doctor to consider you healthy so if you weigh 200 pounds, losing just 20-40 pounds could put in a healthy weight range.

Measure your weight loss in different ways to see the full impact of healthy eating and exercise on your body shape and include in your goals these different ways of charting your weight loss. The measurements you read on your scales do reflect your weight loss but so does the size of your waist, your hips and your chest.  Sometimes you will find the loss of your body mass plateaus for a time but your body measurements continue to diminish so make sure both of these forms of measurement are part of your goals.

Do the math because if you want to lose 25 pounds and you know that a safe weight loss rate is 2 pounds per week then you need to plan on taking 12 to 14 weeks to lose this weight. In the beginning it might make it seem more difficult to lose weight, but if you have a realistic expectation of how long it will take to lose the amount of weight that you want to shed, it will help you remain focused and stay on your calories loss diet. Weight loss goals that are ‘short and furious’ generally go out with a bang soon after they have been set.

Try to reduce your daily calorie intake by 500 per day either by exercising more and burning more calories or by eating less. Use a calories counter to estimate the changes you need to make to bring about this calories loss each day and use it to determine the foods that you can continue to include in your menu. Losing weight is a numbers game so get familiar with those numbers and how to use them to lose weight.

Set short term goals, but think of long term goals so set weight loss milestones and celebrate when you reach them. Buy yourself a new book when you lose 5 pounds, or a new dress when you hit 10 pounds lost. But even as you are celebrating each milestone, keep focused on the big picture and how much weight you want to lose in total. You need to celebrate your progress along the way but also stay focused on the big prize at the end because this will make your persistence to bring about a consistent calories loss worth the effort.

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Rowena French

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When you start a new diet it is always exciting and easy to ‘commit’ to a daily calories loss menu and regular exercise. You tell yourself that this time you are going to stick with it, this time will be different, this time you are really committed. But do you really stick with the diet or do you go back to your old eating habits and end up with no weight loss and sometimes even a weight gain?

That is what happens to most people because dieting is not always fun, change is usually no fun and there are times when losing weight can just get hard. But in order to make real, healthy, permanent changes you need to make sure that the food you eat over the long term is both enjoyable and provides you with the calories loss you need. You need to be committed to getting healthy and fit and to sticking with your diet and this time you really do make that commitment.

Do not just tell yourself it is time to get healthy; instead make a physical gesture to show that you are committed to staying on that calories loss diet and making healthy other important changes to your lifestyle. If that sounds silly to you, it should not because people of all kinds even those in political office like Senator McCain and Senator Obama use all kinds of physical symbols to show their commitment to important matters. Rings, tattoos, ceremonies, even certificates and trophies are signs of commitment so you need a physical sign of commitment to mark the start of your diet.

There are some fun ways to make a commitment to become healthier, happier, and fit by losing weight so begin positively and write it down, making a weight loss contract and committing to stay on your diet for at least six months. Include in the contract, rewards for staying committed and penalties for breaking the contract.  Then sign it, have a friend witness it then keep it on the refrigerator to remind you of your commitment.

Hire a personal trainer as extra incentive because once you spend the money for a personal trainer, that money is gone whether you use those personal training sessions or not. The same rule usually applies to a gym membership as well, so spending money on exercise this is a commitment to getting fit. And knowing that money is gone whether or not you use that gym membership or get those personal training sessions they are likely to motivate you to exercise more.

Start a weight loss club by getting some friends together who want to lose weight as well and agree to meet once a week for a weigh in. Your friends will keep you honest about sticking to your calories loss diet. This is the underlying principle upon which some of the most successful weight loss companies are based so if they can be successful at gathering people together to celebrate their weight loss, you can too.

Tell people about your diet especially your friends, your family, the people at work, or anyone that you see on a regular basis, explaining your plans to lose weight, eat better, and exercise more. Once you have told people you are committing to a calories loss diet, they will ask you about the diet and how you are doing and you will have to answer them. Embarrassment about telling people that you fell off your diet can be good motivation to keep going in those moments when you want to quit.

Have a clear mental ‘picture’ of how you plan to look when you have reached your goal weight. Find pictures in magazines of the new ‘look’ you are working towards and display them at home and in your workplace.  This very public way of committing to a healthy weight loss for good through calories loss and exercise is very public commitment at the beginning of your diet and an effective motivator to keep you strong and resilient even when times get tough.    

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Changing your lifestyle instead of ‘going on a diet’ is essential if you want to enjoy a long term weight loss but it can be difficult, at first, to change your thinking about dieting. If you have always been overweight, you have probably spent years dieting even creating calories loss menus but hating your body. That kind of mindset does not go away overnight, but you can change how you approach dieting and how you think of your body because it is not the enemy and it is not out to get you.

Making your body healthy and giving it what it needs, will ensure that you will be healthy and happy as you get older. When you change the way you approach food and what you eat because of the calories loss you create with healthy foods, you will notice that you have more energy, sleep better at night, and you will be slowly changing your metabolism to process calories more efficiently. Spend some time considering what kinds of foods your body needs to get healthy as part of the changes you make to your lifestyle.

Exercise is also a necessary part of living a healthy lifestyle because it is crucial to keeping the body strong and healthy. Building muscle will help you burn more calories and help speed up your metabolism. Most exercise will help you do this so but sure that you decide on the type that you will enjoy enough to continue with on a regular basis.

Exercise is also a necessary part of living a healthy lifestyle because it is crucial to keep your body strong and healthy. Building muscle will help you burn more calories and help speed up your metabolism. Most exercise will help you do this so but be sure to decide on the type of exercise that you will enjoy enough to continue with on a regular basis.

You can start your new lifestyle now without requiring special meals by ordering a salad for your next lunch, or having a healthy glass of water instead of that soda. When you are at the grocery store, think about the best choice for eating healthily and creating a calories loss in meals across the next week. Instead of reaching for a frozen pizza, select a bag of frozen vegetables for dinner and cook up those vegetables with some white rice and a chicken breast instead of making macaroni and cheese.

Portion size is also an important and sometimes underrated part of a healthy lifestyle. Most people eat double the portion size they should have at each meal because it is more than your stomach should hold and as a result and not surprisingly they find it difficult to lose weight.  Your stomach is about the size of your fist and this is an indication of the amount of food your stomach can best manage.

Make a fist right now because that is about how big your stomach actually is. Now think of the last meal you ate and about how much food you were putting into that little stomach. Your stomach will stretch when there is a lot of food placed in it, which is why you probably never noticed how much food you really eat.

When you sit down to eat your next meal, make a fist before you lift that fork and try not to eat more food than you could fit into that fist. Eating smaller meals that are no bigger than a fist 4-5 times a day is a much better way to lose weight than eating 3 larger meals per day. This means there is less reason to enlarge your stomach regularly and because of this less need to eat larger portions of food to fill it.

This small but essential aspect of a successful weight loss food program is important to understand and act upon.  Although foods that bring about calories loss is a core aspect of long term weight loss, just knowing the size of your stomach and ensuring that it is not unnecessarily stretched and then refilled to the same extent will assist you determine not only what you eat but how much and how often. Smaller and more frequent meals are well worth factoring into your new and healthier lifestyle.

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Our cute-as-a button niece Ally came to live with us this year. She is 18, has just started College and is living away from home for the first time.

She is trim, outgoing and lots of fun.  Her boyfriend is devoted to her. She’s smart, has a great sense of fashion and she’s very conscious of her appearance.  At first glance you think she didn’t have a problem in the world!

We’re discovering more about each other every day. We respect her privacy and want her to enjoy living with us. But we’ve discovered some things she’d rather not discuss have needed airing.

Not long ago her bathroom washing revealed an aspect of her life new to us.  All her towels were covered with white stains. They were ruined and needed replacing.

I asked her what might have caused the discoloring.  She looked embarrassed and vague, had no answer but said ‘I always used white bath towels at home’.  The towels were replaced with the requested white. As I was arranging this, the penny ‘dropped’. Peroxide was the culprit.

Ally was using skin care products containing peroxide to treat her acne.  No wonder she spent more time in her bathroom than any other room in the house! No wonder the towels needed replacing and no wonder white was the only colored towel she had used at home.

At first I was surprised at how hard she’d tried to hide this from us. Then I recalled how outbreaks of acne leave adolescents so exposed and vulnerable. Ally’s response to my question mirrored the deep embarrassment that most kids feel as they try to cover up or control their skin blemishes.  Just when they’re feeling most self conscious about their appearance and trying to fit in with others, acne can appear and ruin everything!

It is generally believed that our genes and hormones impact on our chances of developing acne.  Sometimes skin care products can impact on acne along with stress.  According to the American Academy of Dermatology, an estimated 80 percent of all people between the ages of 11 and 30 have acne outbreaks at some point.

We’re pleased that Ally has found a reliable guide to help control her acne.  Thankfully she didn’t follow the myriad of myths about remedies for skin blemishes.

We notice that even though she is well informed, Ally chooses not to discuss the prevention of her acne with us.  We’re OK with this. Our task is to ask no further questions, provide white towels, and allow her to keep doing what she seems to be managing well.

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Rowena 

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To discover more about ways to prevent and treat acne and blemishes you will find help in The Complete Guide to Acne: Prevention, Treatment and Remedies.

You should not eat excessive amounts of breads or grains when you are aiming for calories loss across each day, but you do need to have some of these foods in your diet. Keep basic breads and grains around to use as snacks or for sandwiches and low calorie meals. Eaten in limited portions, they will provide your body with the energy it needs and still accommodate your weight loss plan.

You can throw some cereal on top of your yogurt to add some fiber and crunch and make a great, fast and healthy breakfast that has less than 300 calories by using whole-grain, reduced sugar and bran cereals. You do not need to buy special low calorie bread as most whole grain bread has under100 calories per slice. Just remember, if you are aiming for calories loss, a serving is one slice, not two.

Instant brown rice is very healthy, easy and fast to make so throw some frozen vegetables and brown rice into a steamer, cook some chicken breasts and twenty minutes later you have a meal. Whole wheat pitas can be used with a meal, with a snack, and if you stuff some hummus and salad into one, call it lunch. Bake one and cut it into pieces for some crunchy chips as they have less than 200 calories and endless possibilities.

Oatmeal is a great filling food for breakfast and has lots of fiber that will help you feel full throughout the day. At lunch or dinner, eat pasta sparingly, and look for whole grain pasta, but do keep some around for a quick meal. Remember to eat more of an accompanying salad than pasta when you want the benefits of calories loss.

Eat whole grain crackers and cheese as a snack instead of potato chips and you will be surprised at how much of a calories loss this accounts for.  Crunchy and filling with hardly any calories, rice cakes are the classic diet food.  Add a tablespoon of peanut butter on top for some taste and protein.

It is a little bit tricky to keep dairy items on hand because they expire, but some staple dairy foods should always be in the refrigerator.  Include in your collection, low calorie margarine, 2% milk, the best to keep on hand and low calorie cheese that can add plenty of flavor to meals and yogurt. Yogurts and string cheese are tasty, portable, healthy snacks and ensure a far greater calories loss than chips or milkshakes.

Yogurts are fabulous for those following a low calorie diet. Individually portioned and low in calories, they are sweet, great sources of calcium and the perfect size for a snack usually containing less than 200 calories. When the grocery store has a sale on yogurt, stock up.

Frozen foods including grains and dairy products can be kept for a long time, are easily stored in your freezer and should be included in your calories loss menu. You can never have too many frozen vegetables, frozen fruit in its own juice is great for a snack or in smoothies and frozen yogurt is a healthy alternative to ice cream.  Most frozen diet meals contain less than 300 calories and are wonderful to keep at work so that you always have a fast, easy, lunch or even dinner option that will contribute to your weight loss.

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Rowena French

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To make sure that you reach your weight loss goal soon so you can enjoy the benefits of this, rid your kitchen of all that high fat, high calorie food. Replace this with some low calorie snacks and cooking supplies that you should always keep on hand when you want to promote a claories in your daily menu. If you always have these low calorie snacks and food in the kitchen, when you want to cook a low calorie meal or have a quick low calorie snack you will have some right there and ready to go.

Condiments can be used to add flavor and zest to a lot of low calorie meals so keep easy to find condiments on hand so that if your low calorie meal needs a kick, you have a low calorie way to spice things up. Low calorie salad dressing or oil and spices to make your own along with low calorie mayonnaise both make any vegetables in salads more interesting and even tasty. Keep a supply of vinegar, cocktail sauce, lite soya sauce, olive oil and spices like salt, pepper, lemon pepper and others like these to add to meat dishes, especially fish and chicken.

Fresh salsa is a wonderful low calorie condiment for a salads and a tasty snack that will help maintain your calories loss each day. There is no need to deprive your body of sweetness during your weight loss program, especially at breakfast when a slice of toast can provide you with energy across the morning.  Choose from a wide selection of reduce sugar fruit spreads or jams at the supermarket and enjoy a limited spread of these daily.

Canned items can be kept for years and are always good to have around when you want to whip up a tasty, low calorie meal. Keep canned goods like tomato paste stocked in your kitchen to make your own low calorie spaghetti sauce, canned beans to make as a side dish, canned vegetables to throw into a casserole and canned fruit (in fruit juice not syrup) for desserts or over low calorie ice cream. These foods are all easy to prepare and all lead to calories loss each day.

Get organic soups and broth when you can and throw some soup in your bag for a quick work lunch or use soup as a base in a low calorie meal especially those using organic broths that are a great base for calories loss meals. Tuna is a quick protein pick me up or last minute casserole, hummus a Middle Eastern dip that makes a great low calorie snack and peanut butter that every house needs to stock.

Buying fresh fruits and vegetables can be expensive but you should try to have some around whenever possible. During the spring and summer, hit the local farmer’s market to get great deals on fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables. Most of the time, fresh fruits and vegetables are cheaper than frozen during the spring and summer but to maintain your calories loss across the year, you might need to use frozen fruits and vegetables during the fall and winter when the markets close and fresh produce is harder to find.

Add some healthy crunchy snacks to your shopping list to replace those junk food chips or candy, both of which are high in calories, by buying nuts, trail mix, pretzels, popcorn, and tortilla chips. An entire pita has less than 200 calories so bake a pita until it gets nice and toasty and break it into small chips to eat with fresh salsa or some olive oil. This kind of meal makes sure that your calories loss will help you lose those extra pounds while still enjoying food!

Getting rid of the junk food in your house doesn’t mean that you can’t ever snack again, it just means that you need to change the way that you think about snacking, still enjoying a snack when you are watching TV or playing a game with your family. Getting rid of junk food in your diet can be like breaking an addiction, and you might have some withdrawal pangs, but stick with it because if there is no junk food in the house then you won’t eat it. Your diet will reflect a calories loss and you will experience weight loss and feel so much healthier and happier.

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Whenever you start a new diet, you are usually very upbeat, focused, positive and eager to get on track, lose weight, and get fit. But as the months go by and weight loss week after week becomes more challenging, it can be very difficult to stay motivated, continue exercising and making healthy eating choices. Here are some tried and true ways that you can use to stay on track with your weight loss.

Sort through old photos of you and tape one on the refrigerator after finding a picture of yourself that you absolutely hate; a picture taken when you were at your heaviest weight. Tape it on the refrigerator or the cupboard where you will see it every time you go looking for a snack. Every time you see the picture tell yourself that you will never look like that again and this will help motivate you to not have that extra snack.

Set weight loss goals and rewards for yourself and write down these goals and rewards. Things like ‘When I lose five pounds I will buy that fabulous red dress’ or ‘When I can fit back into my skinny jeans I’ll treat myself to those boots that will look great with my skinny jeans’ or ‘When I lose thirty pounds I’m going to Florida for a vacation and I’m actually going to buy a swimsuit and go in the water.’

Work towards you goals! Keep track of your progress and reward yourself well when you accomplish another goal that you have set for yourself. Setting goals and rewarding yourself is a powerful way to stay motivated to diet because you will start to really see the positive results of all of your hard work.

Start a blog, name it My Weight Loss Week, and get a little digital support. Starting a blog will help you stay motivated to keep going because now you are accountable to your readers to stay on your diet and keep losing weight. Having a blog will also get you a lot of support from your readers in the form of helpful comments and emails to keep you motivated to stay on track.

A picture is worth 1000 words so flip through some of your favorite clothing catalogs and cut out photos of the clothes that you want to be able to wear when you are at your ideal weight. Pin them up on your closet doors, on your mirror, anywhere where you will see them. Stay focused on how you want to look when you are at your ideal weight, the time when your weight loss week in week out won’t be needed, then visualize this and it will help you make it happen.

Read by going online or read books that detail the stories and successes of other people who have lost weight successfully. Reading about the success of others will help inspire you to keep going. After all, someday someone might be reading about your struggle with weight loss as a way to stay motivated and to stay on their diet!

Try new things and do not get stuck in a food or exercise rut. Try new ways to exercise, considering a martial arts class, belly dancing, or take some friends to a roller rink or ice rink to skate for the afternoon or even go sledding or skiing. No matter what the season, there is sure to be some new outdoor or physical activity you can try to change your routine a little and take the focus off your weight loss week by week.

Avoid people who are unsupportive or that sabotage your weight loss efforts.  If you have a friend who always want to eat fast food or go get ice cream and tells you that it is OK to cheat on your diet ‘just this once’ or says other things that dampen your efforts, do not hang out with that person anymore. Do not let anyone hold you back from doing what you know is best for you – making healthy choices and enjoying your weight loss week in week out!

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Over recent years, the focus in weight loss programs has been largely low carb or low fat diets.  In order to lose weight, you need to eat less calories than you need to use across each day. So regardless of what your diet or eating program is called, the bottom line about all successful weight loss is calories loss. 

Are you ready to figure out how many calories that you should take in each day? There are several ways to decide what your ideal calorie intake should be. Some are complicated and involve calculating your Base Metabolic Rate and then adding the amount of energy you normally put into physical activity and adding in how efficiently your body processes food.

You can go to a nutritionist who has tools to measure those values and get a very precise figure of how many calories you should be eating each day. But if you want a simpler formula to figure out how many calories you should be taking in each day to keep your body functioning, there is an easier way. First, you need to assess your activity level.

You are sedentary if you sit at a computer all day and do no more physical activity than walking around the grocery store. The best way to figure out how many calories you need to take in on a daily basis is to take your weight and multiply it by 14, so if you weigh 150 pounds, you would multiply 150 x 14 and get 2100, and need to take in 2,100 calories each day to maintain your weight. To lose weight through calories loss your intake will need to be less than this.

If you are moderately active, you don’t work out every day, but you might hit the gym two or three times a week or walk or bike ride around the neighborhood at night. To figure out how many calories you need each day, take your weight and multiply it by 17 so the total will give you the number of calories you should take in to maintain your weight. To lose weight through calories loss your intake will need to be less than this.

If you bike to work, go to the gym every day, or run five miles at night, you are active. In order to figure out your ideal calorie intake, multiply your weight by 20 and that is how many calories your body needs to keep working efficiently. To lose weight through calories loss your intake will need to be less than this.

A food diary is a great way to get an accurate idea of how many calories you consume in a day and figure out how many calories are in each of the things that you ate that day. There are lots of commercially available calorie counting books that give the total number of calories for a lot of common foods and even fast foods. Using a food diary you can accurately count the calories in a fast food meal and determine what and how much you can eat in order to lose weight through calories loss.

There are also many calorie counting websites that have the same information for free and will help you manage your calories loss and the impact of this on your overall weight loss. Counting calories may take a little time at the outset but you it becomes a lot easier and will help you control what you eat so you can lose weight and keep it off forever.

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Rowena French

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