How you Lose, Gain, or Maintain Weight
How you maintain your weight
Pretend you weigh 200 lbs. and you want to lose weight...
The first thing you need to do is find out how many calories you can eat without gaining weight and you would do that by...
- Taking your weight (200 lbs), your age, your height, and your activity level and using them in a weight loss math equation and...
- This weight loss equation would tell you a 200 lb person needs about 2500 calories a day to maintain their weight and don't worry...
- You won't have to do any math - Just go here and use the permanent weight loss calculator to see how much you need to eat to lose weight but before you do that...
See why you have to do this to lose weight…
Your body gets energy by Burning calories from the food you eat or... By burning the nasty fat stored in your body and...
Your body only needs but so much energy to survive and whenever you eat too much your body says…
“I'm just going to take all this extra energy you ate and store it as fat and...”
Whenever you go on a very low calorie diet... Your body goes into survival mode and says…
“Oh god, you're going on another diet – you're not going to feed me so... I better slow down my metabolism, burn less calories, and hold onto to more fat!”
To lose weight just...Eat enough (not too much to get fat and not too little to hold onto fat ) to make your body say…
“Okay, I already burned all the calories from the food you ate so now I have to burn up your fat for energy”
How you end up gaining weightSo if you weighed 200 lbs. and ate more than 2500 calories a day you’ll gain weight and the reason you'll gain weight is because...
- 1 lb of FAT has 3500 calories in it and if you eat an extra 3500 calories... You’ll gain 1 lb of FAT. So for example…
- If you eat 3000 calories everyday when you only need to eat only 2500 everyday to maintain your weight…
- You’ll gain a pound of FAT every week because you’re eating an extra 500 calories a day and...
- 7 days (1 week) of eating an extra 500 calories = 3500 calories or a pound of ugly fat added to your body.
How you'll lose weight
Remember... you're still pretending you weight 200 lbs. and you need to eat 2500 calories a day to maintain your weight but...
What if you ate 2000 calories a day or 500 less calories than you need to maintain your weight?
You will lose 1 pound of FAT a week Because…- Your body is forced to get its energy from somewhere and since you’re not eating 2500 calories a day…
- Your body has no choice but to burn 500 FAT calories a day or 1 pound of FAT a week and...
- If you eat 500 less calories a day over 7 days… you will burn 3500 calories a week or lose 1 pound of fat each week which adds up to 52 pounds a year and...
- If you cut 750 calories a day - you would lose 1½ lbs a week or 78 pounds a year and...
- If you cut 1000 calories a day...
*DO NOT cut more than 1000 calories a day because it will cause your body to hold onto fat and not burn it.
Make sure you also look at this to help you lose weight...- See how many calories you need to eat to lose weight
- 3 ways to lose weight safely
- Why eating 5 small meals speeds up your metabolism
- Why very calorie diets don't work
