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Saturday, June 7, 2008

If you’re trying to lose weight you probably have read all kinds of weight loss tips from all kinds of experts. It seems like everyone has advice on how to lose weight or some weight loss tips that you need to follow. But most of the weight loss tips that people give are just old wives tales and won’t really help you lose weight. Some have no basis in medical fact and are just weight loss tips that get repeated so often that people believe them. One of the most common tip that people give is that you shouldn’t eat after 8 pm. Well, from a scientific standpoint when you eat has no bearing at all on what you weigh. So you could eat a salad at midnight and it wouldn’t make you gain weight. But eating an entire cake will make you gain weight and it doesn’t matter if it’s 11AM or 10PM. Some of the weight loss tips that people give out are based on fad diets and are really difficult for normal people to work into their everyday schedules. Eating nothing but cabbage or nothing but grapefruit or nothing but protein is not really all that easy to do and it’s practically impossible if you are trying to work, take care of your family, or do the other thousand things that you need to do each day. What you need are some practical tips, so here are some practical weight loss tips and trivia.

Losing weight is actually a very simple formula. Burn more calories than you take in. Your body burns calories for fuel so if your body needs energy and you have not taken in enough calories it will start to draw energy from the fat already in your body which will make you lose weight. One practical way to lose weight is to cut your calorie intake by one fourth each day. Most people eat about 2,000 calories per day so if you drop that by one fourth you’d be eating 1,500 calories per day. That might sound like a lot but it’s not that hard to cut 500 calories out of your daily diet. Just one or two lattes per day could make the difference since the average latte has between 300-500 calories. Instead of getting a Latte or a Mocha get plain coffee with non fat creamer. If you must have one fancy coffee drink get it made with skim milk and get a small, not a large. Portion sizes matter more than you think when it comes to weight loss. It’s ok to have a sweet treat or chips or fries once in awhile as long as it’s a small portion. Your stomach is about the size of your hands when they are cupped. So when you’re eating look at the portion you’re eating and remember that it’s going into a space the size of your cupped hands. That’s not a lot of space. Keeping your portions small will help you lose weight.

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by: UltimateFitnessGear