How to Lose Weight With Proven Techniques
The simple things you must know and do
The author is the soon of a doctor and an athlete. He was swimming for 6 years, then was at gym for other 5 years, was in the archery team for 3 years, 4 years experience in Wing Chun (kung-fu), has a diving license, parkour and bicycle for fun.
The majority of us want to have a perfect body like the models, with no fat and perfect ABS and muscles. To get the ABS and the muscles you need to exercise a lot, meaning you need time for training. Again, the majority of us are working so much and haven't the time for exercise.
Fortunately, losing weight is the first step to have the perfect body and there is no question about time. You will need the same time to eat as before. There are so many diets out there, others telling you don't eat meat, others don't eat carbohydrates, others don't eat sweets. I have heard one diet suggest drinking only water for three days to lose weight. Then eat one day and again three days only water.
What should you do, which should you follow?
First of all, there is a saying: easy come easy go. Let me say it backward: easy go easy come, and that is true about weight. Put it in your mind and hold it.
Let me reveal the ultimate truth stolen from physic. There is the first thermodynamics rule saying that you can not generate energy out of thin air. Your body needs energy to sustain alive. We get this energy from our food. If we get more energy (food) than we need, we convert it too fat. We burn the energy and the fat when we move. How more we move how more we burn.
Here come the calories in play. Calories are a unit that measures energy. A normal person needs about 2000 kcal to sustain his weight, but this number depends on the gender, age, how tall the person is, and the kind of job he is doing. For the same person, other calories are needed if he is working in an office and other if he is a woodcutter.
The key to losing weight is to eat food each day with a total amount of calories, less than what you need to sustain your current weight. That is the golden rule. Any diet must obey this rule to have success. That is absolute. Keep it in mind too.
We humans as living organisms need energy to sustain our bodies but we need a lot of components to be healthy. Protein for our muscles, carbohydrates for the energy, and nutrients for all the other organs of our body as liver, heart, skin, vein, arteries, blood, and so on.
Because of that, a diet that rules out one of those components isn't a good diet. The key here is to eat all kinds of food but with balance. You can eat a lot of tomatoes and cucumber and still lose weight but you can't eat a lot of plates of pasta and pizza and lose weight.
Why? Because of the calories. So simple.
Finally eating right and adopting a good diet is something that you learn doing it, and after a while becomes a new habit, a good one. No diet should make you lose more than 1 to 2 kilos per week. And after each week you must cut a small portion of what you were eating before, to lose weight. When you get to the desired weight you can sustain it by adopting the diet. A diet that contains all the food in the right portions.
What to keep in mind
- To lose weight you must eat food with fewer calories than the one you need to sustain your current body weight.
- Diversity is crucial for a successful diet. You need all kinds of food to take nutrients and stay healthy.
- You need to have a diet with a varied menu otherwise you get bored eating the same food again and again and you will stop your diet.
- Extreme diets will lose you weight but most of the time you will get more kilos back. Take the time to learn to eat the right portion of food. That will become the new normal.
- Diet is not to stop eating but adopting a new way of eating.
- Exercise is always a good booster. Doing exercise will be better not only for your diet but for your health, physical and pneumatically.
