How is Weight Lost?
In order to lose 1 pound, you must burn 3,500 calories more than what you consume.

It’s not Hard! Here’s why:
The average person burns 2,000 calories per day just staying alive performing functions such as breathing and digesting.

Is it Hard to Lose Weight?
Some people have an extremely difficult time losing weight when the method behind the reason for weight loss is quite simple. In this article we will concentrate on losing fat weight from the body. Although it is physically impossible to lose only fat weight, the majority of weight that is lost when following a healthy diet, weight loss routine or the 3 Step Process will be fat.

To lose weight you don’t need any pills or products. To lose weight you don’t even need to exercise; although exercise will accelerate weight loss and is highly recommended for faster results. The most important thing to remember when trying to lose weight is that you must burn more calories than you consume.

Burn More Than you Consume
I know what you’re thinking. How can you burn calories without exercise? Well, the body naturally burns calories keeping you alive and even more calories to perform daily activities.

How many calories do I burn in a day without exercise?
Every person will naturally burn a different amount of calories per day based on the following factors:

  • Weight
  • Height
  • Gender
  • Fitness Level
  • Current Eating Habits
  • Daily Activities

The harder the body has to work to survive and complete tasks in a day, more calories will be burnt during that day. So for example a 400 pound male would burn more calories than a 120 pound female simply because it is more difficult to carry around 400 pounds of body weight all day than it is to carry around 120 pounds. Additionally males burn more calories than females. In another example a sport athlete will burn fewer calories than a couch potato if they are both performing a difficult activity. The reason for this is because the athlete’s body is used to performing difficult activities and therefore requires less effort to perform the same activity. Less effort means fewer calories required to be burnt. This example is the same for the role eating habits plan in calorie burning. A person who is constantly providing their body with the proper amount of nutrition will burn more calories than a person who starves themselves for either short or long periods of time. (A short period could be as little as 8 hours). The reasoning behind this is because when the body is uncertain when it will receive more food it will store as much of the food it does receive as fat. Then when it is required to burn calories it will burn as few calories as possible to complete the task because it wants to conserve as many calories as possible. The body does whatever it needs to do to survive and often that means storing fat and not burning as many calories as possible. The final example of non-exercise calorie burn comes when comparing a couch potato who drinks lots of water, sits up while watching TV and has a broken remote control. This person will burn more calories than a couch potato who doesn’t drink much water, lies on the couch and never gets off the couch to change the channel. The reason for this is because he doesn’t burn the extra calories by sitting up, feeling up his glass, going to the washroom, or changing the channel.

Calculate how many calories a person burns per day
First Calculate your BMR. BMR stands for Basal Metabolic Rate. A persons BMR determines the amount of calories your body needs to burn to function normally. These functions include breathing, digesting and so on…

Calculate your activity level. Use an exercise calorie calculator to determine how many calories you burn performing daily activities of your choice such as sitting, sleeping, walking, and exercising ect.

Once you have these two calorie burning totals add them together and you will know how many calories you require to maintain your body. If you eat exactly that amount of calories you will not gain or lose any weight. If you eat more calories than is required then you will gain weight. By eating fewer calories than you require you will lose weight. Be careful though, there are ways that you can actually gain weight while eating the proper amount of calories. These horrible gains come from eating before bed and eating too few meals per day or too large of a meal in one sitting.

BMR + Calories Burned = Total Calories Needed

Calories You Eat – Total Calories Needed = Weight Gain or Loss

Lose 1 Pound Every Week
By making just a small change to your life, you could lose 1 pound every week.
Eat one less cookie, take the stairs rather than the elevator, walk instead of drive ect.

Example:
Jessica wants to lose weight. Her BMR is 1500 calories and every day she is able to burn 1200 calories with simple activities. If she wanted to maintain her weight she would need to eat 2700 calories. All she needs to do to lose weight is eat less than 2700 calories per day. If she ate 1500 calories each day she would burn 8400 calories per week. That means she would lose 2.5 pounds every week!

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