How Thai Food Can Help You Lose Weight
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First off, you need to be aware that losing weight is ultimately based on your diet. You can ultimately change your diet and not exercise at all and lose weight. You lose weight when you take in less calories than you burn -- simple as that!
You need to calculate your BMR (basic metabolic rate), enter in your activity level, then eat about 500 calories less than that. It should be somewhere in the 1200-1600 calorie range.
COUNT your calories diligently. If you eat one ritz cracker that is sitting on the counter, count it. The little things add up quickly. When I first started losing weight, I realized that I was eating SO many extra calories per day that I wasn't even adding.
Make little changes. Switch to using a low-cal dressing (and less of it) on salad, get sugar-free syrups in you coffee, buy smaller pieces of bread, use sugar-free maple syrup on pancakes, etc. You get the picture :)
My next tip is to eat super slow. Even in a busy schedule, try to make each meal period a long one. Sit down and enjoy it. Read a book or sit on your laptop while eating so you take a bite, then do something else, drink some water, take another bite, so on so forth...I spend nearly an hour at each meal but I try my best to get work done while I have it!
Finally, for exercise, like I said, it won't be the reason you lose weight. However, it DEFINITELY helps. It tones you, boosts your metabolism, and obviously burns calories. Since the weather sucks, I would recommend getting a gym membership if you think you will use it so that you can do some cardio. If you can't do that, maybe you should just try to commit to going outside for a jog/walk (as long as you can) on days that it is nice, then just doing strength type exercises on days you are stuck inside!
Good luck :)
- Run up and down your stairs.
Eating fatty foods is not the real reason you get fat, it's sugar and carbohydrates. If you eat a lot of bread, pasta, rice, chocolate, candy, etc, cut them out. Instead of eating a chicken sandwich for lunch, eat the bare chicken and some veggies. Try to eat 1000-1500 calories a day as an average person needs 2000 calories to maintain their weight. In addition, 1 pound of fat weighs 3500 calories so by eating 1500 calories a day can let you lose a pound a week safely!
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