It's All About the Calories and Exercising

Dieting Advice

Here's a great article about diet tips which talks about great ways to lose weight fast. Basically, the healthier your diet and the fewer bad foods you crave, the more weight you'll lose. Of course, you'll do even better if you add exercise and some cardio workouts into the mix. Read on for more dieting advice.

Copyright 2006 Dennis Watson Like most people when I was younger it seemed I could eat anything and not really ever gain weight. Well now that I'm in my forties it appears that those undisciplined days are over for good. After doing a little research I've come to the conclusion that my lack of activity and slowing metabolism is to blame. Wanting to lose some weight I went out to look for that magic weight loss plan that would offer a painless process for losing weight. After reading and trying several programs I realized that they all seemed to have the same common theme – lower your caloric intake and get off your butt and do something. If you need to lose some weight, I recommend that you pay close attention to what you eat during the day. Go ahead and count up all of those calories you take in and calculate how many minutes you exercise.

It won't take very many days for you to figure out that you take in to many calories and don't exercise enough. Use the information below to help you figure out where you want or need to be. Calorie Requirements Resting Metabolic Rate represents the minimum energy needs of the body, for day and night with no exercise. Sedentary includes occupations that involve sitting most of the day. Light includes activities, which involve standing most of the day. Moderate may include walking, gardening, and housework.

TIP: As you can tell by reading this, there's a lot of stuff to know when you're deciding whether or not to use this approach. In the meantime, be careful choosing which foods you eat, determine how much fat is in a serving portion, and balance your body's nutritional requirements so as to maximize fat reduction over total weight loss.

Active includes an occupation that requires manual labor and/or participating in a daily exercise program. Daily calorie allowance: Men: Resting -- 12 per lb. body weight. Sedentary -- 16 per lb. body weight. Light-- 18 per lb.

body weight. Moderate -- 21 per lb. body weight. Active -- 26 per lb. body weight Example: I want to reach a weight of 180 lbs, to do so I plan on being moderately active, so my daily caloric intake should be 21 x 180 = 3780 calories per day. Women: Resting -- 13 per lb.

body weight. Sedentary -- 14 per lb. body weight. Light -- 16 per lb. body weight.

Moderate -- 18 per lb. body weight. Active -- 22 per lb. body weight Example: If you want to reach a weight of 130 and maintain that weight and plan on being moderately active, then your caloric intake should be 18 x 130 = 2340 calories per day. Lastly, no matter what you decide to do go ahead and engage in regular physical activity and reduce sedentary activities to promote health. Good luck

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