How Did I Get Fat in the First Place? Most people already know or should know that they become
overweight by eating too much in the first place. The food we eat contains calories that provide our bodies with the energy we need to keep us functioning properly. Depending mostly on our bodyweight we all need a certain amount of calories to keep our bodies warm, and also to keep our vital organs such as heart, lungs, and brain functioning properly.
Sedentary people may exercise less than 1 hour a week, watch TV constantly, or work at a desk 8-12 hours a day. Basically a "sedentary or inactive" person is someone who is physically lazy. Now just imagine for a minute that you’re that inactive 150lb person and you consistently eat 2,450 calories a day. Remember, being that you are 150lbs your body only burns or needs 1950 calories a day to support your inactive lifestyle. So what do you think your body does with the extra 500 calories you eat daily? Well unfortunately your body is very smart in this case. Your body doesn’t get rid of the extra 500 calories you overeaten, it stores the extra calories as
Body Fat that shows up around your midsection, thighs, buttocks, and under your arms.
You only have to eat an extra 3500 calories to put on a pound of body fat. It could take you a day or a year to put on a pound of body fat depending on your eating habits. Imagine again you’re that 150lb inactive person who only needs 1950 calories a day and you consistently eat an extra 500cal (2450) a day. It would take you exactly 1 week to put on an extra pound of body fat. That means you would gain 52lb a year!
(7 days x 500 extra calories each day =
3500 calories or 1lb gained in a week!)
 Okay, so you already know that the extra calories you eat get stored as fat, you also know that you have to eat an extra 3500 calories to put on a pound of fat, so how did we figure out that an inactive 150lb person only needs to eat 1950 calories a day to maintain their bodyweight? Well, we took their bodyweight and multiplied it by 13 (150 x 13=1950 calories). This is a rough estimate of the amount of calories that an inactive 150lb person would need to eat each day to maintain their current bodyweight. Going over or under this amount would cause them to gain or lose weight
(lose or put on body fat!). Don't worry; the
weight loss center can easily help you find your daily calorie needs based on your body weight without having to do all that math.
Now an active person can eat more than an inactive person without worrying about gaining weight because they burn more calories during the day. For example a person who exercises 3-5 times a week can multiply their bodyweight by 15 and a serious athlete can multiply their bodyweights by 17 to account for the extra calories they burn by being active. As you can see from the chart below the more active a person is the more they have to eat to maintain their bodyweight.
If the highly active 150lb person ate the same amount as the inactive person they would start losing weight because they would be under eating. If the 150 inactive person ate the same as the highly active 150lb person they would gain weight because they would be overeating.
The
weight loss center is programmed for the typical person who wants to lose weight that is usually inactive (someone who works out less than an hour a week or only once a week)
Gaining weight is easy---Just eat more calories than you need, don’t exercise, and sit back and watch all the fat pile up on your body. |
For example, a 150lb "sedentary or inactive" person needs to eat at least 1950 calories a day to keep their bodies functioning properly. Notice the key words
"sedentary or inactive", by "sedentary or inactive" we mean a person who does little or no physical activity at all each day.
