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We always get many of emails regarding safe body fat loss. Remember whatever the goal or objective, fat loss needs to be slow and steady at around 2lbs a week.
In one pound of body fat there are 3.500 calories. A calorie is a measurement of energy that is all, not what the content of the energy is. To lose 2lbs of fat would be to deficit the body’s total intake by around 1,000 calories a day from what it presently is.
This is quite a high amount to lose from ones diet on a daily basis. Therefore this is where exercise plays its part. If one can consume 500 calories less a day and combine that with burning 500 calories a day through exercise, then the magic formula of two pounds a week can be achieved.
In my next blog I will attach a chart for you to see how many calories different exercises burn per hour, but one thing for sure, any activity is accumulative calories burnt, so don’t limit yourself to formal exercise, living actively burns calories!!!
If one makes the deficit too dramatic two things will happen; one is you will get hungry and over eat and the other is that your metabolic rate will slow down and make you less able to burn the fat you seek to lose. It is a fine balance and not really around self control as much as understanding what “eating” is and sticking to “eating” as apposed to continually thinking about “what I fancy”.
In my High BMI Series we hope to help those with High BMI`s to understand what “eating“, in a biological sense is and offer practical nuts and bolts information to eating and weight loss. For those with a lesser journey ahead please keep a look out for Vanessa’s six week slim down plan coming to the site very soon.
