Lose Weight Fast By The Numbers
Lose weight fast by the numbers may not have really occurred to you before. It is easier to want fast results and just think that your scale is off, but with some real diligence, fast weight loss can be achieved.
Fast is a strange term. It means moving rapidly along a path that leads to somewhere, not an immediate arrival, but steady and sure. Immediate and unrestricted weight loss can harm your health. Go ahead cautiously and rapidly.
With your notebook as your constant companion, choose a beginning page for some simple math. For example: You are a female age 34 and weigh 150 pounds You are 5’2″. Look at several weight charts in books or on the Internet. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company published a basic chart in the late 1950′s which was somewhat lower than some newer charts. Therefore, you could be anywhere from 109-136 pounds and that would depend on age and frame. You would therefore think that you would like to lose at least 14 pounds or just a little less than 10% of your weight.
Everyone forgets the little nibbles or taste tests that takes place everyday. That little extra pat of butter on a small piece of bread consumed as we wait for the grilled cheese to brown or that extra mayo on the sandwich just escapes your memory. Discipline yourself to keep an accurate account of every morsel. All those calories count and must be put in your journal. Silly? Not really, because you are doing fast weight loss by the numbers and every calorie counts.
Check out the BMR chart and find that for your current weight you need to maintain with 1427.3 calories per day. That’s what it takes for you to support life and normal breathing and sleeping activities plus moderate movements.
Look at the BMR chart and jot down the number of calories that you need to maintain your body weight. Since you will to lose weight and not maintain this weight, start by subtracting a number that will make your total calories no lower than 1200. You must eat 1200 calories for your metabolism to function properly. Lower consumption interferes with metabolic rate. You probably see that this is a slow process when you limit calories only.
Find some activities that will help you burn calories. One hour of brisk walking burns 300 calories. Try one half hour to burn 150 calories on 5 days a week. That will amount to 750 calories plus 227 fewer calories per day in consumption and you will lose that pound in 9 days. The math does not lie. Exercise beyond that walk and you will be burning calories faster and losing weight faster.
When you don’t take all the numbers into account, you lose track of knowing what you ate that you didn’t burn and you can determine how many calories you sent to fat storage. This is not a pleasant thought, so burn what you consume.
