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How to lose weight. Calories are important

By Carol | July 28, 2008

To lose weight, you have to do some calorie counting. It is no good pretending you will lose weight just by carrying on as you do now. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got!

Wishful thinking won’t get you anywhere. Something has to change in your life. You either have to reduce the amount you eat, or increase the amount of exercise you do. Preferably both. It is not hard to make small changes to your lifestyle that you’ll hardly notice.

If you cut out just 2 cookies a day (250 calories) and take a brisk 30 minute walk (250 calories) that’s a 500 calorie deficit in 1 day. Continue for a week and that’s 3500 calories – which is equal to 1lb of fat. You’ve just lost 1lb of fat in a week by hardly doing anything different!

Losing that amount of weight may not seem like much, but slow, steady weight loss is the perfect way to go. This way you’ll be able to continue and maintain the reduction, your heart and lungs will improve and your muscles will strengthen.

Having muscle means you burn more calories all the time – even when you’re sleeping or reading a book. And it’s muscle that causes the changes to your body shape, making you look toned and sleek. And doesn’t this new body deserve to be properly nourished? By cutting out junk and processed foods, cooking good, fresh food from scratch and eating fruit and vegetables in a rainbow of colours every day, you’ll be doing just that.

And your body will thank you by making you feel healthy and full of vitality and energy. You only have one body, and it has to last a lifetime – look after it!

All the best,

Carol J Bartram
(Personal Trainer, Pilates Instructor)

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