I thought I would do something different for a change and came up with the idea of doing a weight loss and diet frequently asked questions post. I may have covered some of the following in a lot of my posts bought some people may have not read them.
So you could probably call this a refresher and something some people may have not seen. So without further ado let’s get started.
Q. Why is it after trying to lose weight for a few weeks or months now I don’t seem to be getting anywhere?
A. There could be any number of reasons for this, but I will try to answer this question as best as I can, when people first start on a weight loss journey it can seem quite overwhelming and also it may be a new experience so it could be very easy to be making mistakes, which can lead to frustration. So let’s just look at a few things that might be causing your problem or anybody else’s, for that matter.
One of the first things that you might be thinking is. Where do I start well one of the first things I would do is decide what your target weight wants to be. Go online or find out from a chart what it should be although bear in mind that BMI isn’t always that accurate it doesn’t take every factor into account, and it has been proven that it can be somewhat flawed.
Look at what you are consciously eating are you steal eating foods that you shouldn’t be like snacks that are laden in calories, or you think they are healthy but you haven’t taken into consideration how many calories they actually contain. It can be very easy to eat food without considering how many calories they do contain.
Have you tried keeping a log of what you are eating and do you actually read the packaging to see how many calories the food you’re buying contains? This is all very simple straightforward stuff what you be surprised that the amount of people that don’t actually know how much they are eating.
On a particular television programme once I was watching somebody had two lots of food side-by-side and were as to how much each contained calories wise and surprise, surprise what they thought the food contained was way off.
Food can be deceptive in various shapes and sizes, for instance, that slice of pizza you may be eating may contain more than a square piece, because we are used to eating foods a certain way then we tend to eat them all the same way.
Do you have any bad eating habits? Like for instance snacking at certain times during the day without even realising that you may have a high calorie snack problem or do you tend to eat high calorie snacks when you’re watching television? All these things can be overlooked sometimes, which is through no fault of our own.
And lastly are you exercising as much as you should be and doing the right type of exercise any exercise is beneficial as long as you do it consistently lots of people start off exercising don’t see any results and then give up.
One of the tricks about exercise is to exercise different parts of your body because otherwise it becomes adapted to what you are doing, and it won’t be as effective as it would do if you where doing different types of exercise, interval training is a great way of burning fat in order to lose weight.
Q. Do diets work?
A. This must be the 64,000 dollar question on everybody’s mind and let’s face it the diet industry is worth billions of pounds, to the people that market to me. Diet implies some sort of regime or honeymoon period once you are trying to lose weight that would seem to pop up quite a lot if people offer you cakes or other foods that you shouldn’t eat then you tend to say to them “I am on a diet”.
I think the best thing to do is eat what you like in moderation but look at the foods closely to see what you are really eating. The problem is with dieting is once you have lost the weight it can be very easy to put it back on again and get back to where you were. And I myself think this is one of the problems with diets is more about having a healthy eating mindset rather than trying all the diets under the sun.
Q. How much weight should I be expected to lose a week?
A. For overall healthy weight loss it should be one to two pounds per week anything more than that then it may affect your health, there is not much point in starving yourself in order to try and lose vast amounts of weight. The main the reason being is once you start to starve yourself your body goes into famine mode and will want to keep hold of any fat it can in order for survival.
Q. How much exercise and calorie deficit do I need to have in order to lose weight?
A. In order to lose one pound of fat per week you need a deficit of 3500 calories per week, which works out at 500 calories per day deficit which these to come from a combination of exercise and calorie deficit. If you want to lose more than you just need to double it.
Q. How do I know how much exercise to do in order to lose weight?
There is something called BMR, which is short for basic metabolic rate this is something based upon the amount of food you need in order to keep your body functioning.
Correctly, if you go to Google and type in BMR calculator then you will be able to work out what your basic metabolic rate is and how much food you need to eat and what exercises you need to do this is well worth doing I highly recommend it.
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