When I decided to start up my own blog to go alongside my calories in food website, one of the hardest things I had to decide was how to open it up, what to blog about first? Sure I could repeat what is on the site and explain how many calories are found in many of the foods that we all eat everyday, but in order to avoid repetition I decided against that.
All over the world people are becoming a lot more health conscious, and whereby there are still fad diets floating around that work for the minority, many people are actually waking up to the fact that going back to basics is the way forward when it comes to losing weight.
There is one main reason behind this and that is quite simply logic! If it is possible to work out how many calories that you need to eat each day in order to maintain your weight, then logically if you eat more then you will gain weight, and if you eat less then you are going to lose weight. Of course the scales don't change over night but when you are in a routine of doing this then over time things can, and will, change.
But does it sound a little bit too good to be true? Find your magic number and then work out the number of calories you are eating, before going higher or lower as applicable, sounds a bit too.... well simple doesn't it?
It's true though, working out your metabolic rate with a few quick and easy calculations can come up with a number specific to you as an individual, taking into consideration your age, height, weight, gender, and how active you are, and then churning out your magic number! And then you just apply the logic and go below that number if you wish to lose weight. This of course will occur because the calories that are no longer being consumed to create energy will be replaced by the body burning fat stores.
This is something that is widely covered online but I still speak to people everyday who complain about their weight, yet become sceptical when I explain this to them.... why is it so hard to believe?
At the end of the day, this is no miracle diet that is being sold to you for $29.99, I don't want you to buy my eBook and all that jazz, it is just a fact that is worth sharing with people that want to lose weight, and there are an awful lot of those online.
Other than applying the logic though the other key thing, and this is very very important, is to have a little patience.
When it comes to losing weight most people want the quick fire solution, the secret that nobody else knows, the magic pill. Well sadly these do not exist and it is important to recognise that sooner rather than later, after which you have wasted your time, and possibly also money, to find out for yourself. People will tell you anything to make a quick buck or two, and online with diet secrets and the like, that is something that goes on far too much.
You have to be patient, and in the end good things will come. If you count your calories and make sure you stick below that magic number(even that makes it sounds a bit like a con) then you will progressively lose weight.
You have all heard the term 'the race is a marathon, not a sprint', well that hits the nail right on the head here.
Counting your calories will eventually mean that you are familiar with what is in each food, and then you won't have to be constantly reading the labels and jotting down something's calorie content. You will get into a routine and recognise what you can, and can't eat in order to stay below you magic number.
One tip is that the day you start to count calories, create your own calorie bible. A notebook where you are writing down the calories found in the everyday foods that you eat. As you progress with your days and weeks the bible will get bigger and you can later use it to plan your meals throughout the day so you know that tomorrow you are going to eat certain foods at each meal time, that will keep you below your magic number, simple!
To get into a routine may take a month or so, but if that is what it takes to lose weight then surely it is worth it right?
So basically applying logic to the situation, having a little patience, and getting into a routine is all you need to do in order to be able to lose weight.
For more information on how to get your magic number by calculating how many calories you should eat a day to lose weight, please check out my page giving a step by step guide on my calories in foods site.
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