Caloric Intake For Weight Loss Considerations: Take Care That Your Metabolism Is Always Active

Caloric Intake For Weight Loss Considerations: Take Care That Your Metabolism Is Always Active

When it becomes necessary to lose weight, the vast majority of people turn to the idea of cutting calories. Many of us understand that we have to consume fewer calories than how many we burn in order to achieve our weight loss goals. Well, because there are so many diet programs and weight loss supplements in the market, I guess many people embark on the gradual process of achieving calorie deficit.

Calorie cutting might be a part of the solution but it is safe to say that calorie cutting alone probably won’t be enough to get you down to the desired weight. And here's why. One pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories. This means that in order to lose even a single pound fat one needs to cut down on calorie intake by 3500 calories. The average adult needs to consume between 1500 and 2500 calories a day. In that instance, that would imply dieting for several days straight to shed even a measly pound of fat. That is not only impossible; it is dangerous and unhealthy.

Consider how a furnace continuously needs fuel to combust and how your metabolism operates. It should become evident that in order to maintain the equilibrium, there are needs that must be met.

Even if you somehow managed to severely reduce your daily caloric intake, it would still not help. Your body was ‘built’ to survive. It is over programmed to prevent itself from starving. If you now have a body that takes in fewer calories, it will interpret that as deprivation and conserve whatever resources it has by going into survival mode. This implies that your metabolism will plummet and weight loss will not occur in any fashion.

The one thing you want to achieve when aiming for weight loss is to maintain a scorching metabolism so that you can burn as many calories as possible. However, in order to achieve this goal, one will have to keep the metabolism constantly fuelled by a sufficient amount of fuel.

Another reason why cutting calories is not the best strategy: in order to maintain a hot metabolism, one has to have a caloric surplus. And by incorporating any type of exercise especially weight training, one will definitely increase their metabolism significantly. Because it is an easy fact that muscle is more metabolically active than fat. So the more muscle you put on, the higher your metabolism becomes.

A word of caution for all you ladies: Don't be afraid about getting 'bulky' from lifting weights.

Bulking up without putting in all the hours at the gym would be virtually impossible. The only women that are huge, bulked up do hour long workouts each and every day, eat healthy, and sometimes supplement with other products.

A few weight lifting sessions a week will not see someone bulking up. What you will see is a transformation of your body structure which makes one look ‘tighter’ and hence slimmer even if the actual weight has not changed. Let us say both you and your best friend are at 120 lbs. Hoping that you are slim because of your workouts while your friend has had none, you will still definitely look slimmer. So start lifting those weights.

If you had two people possessing the same weight, age and sex but the only difference would be one having more muscle, then their metabolic rate would be different, which is that the person with more muscle would be metabolizing more%, even while resting or watching movies.

Once you keep these facts into consideration, you will notice that it revolve quite a number of considerations but calorie intake to lose weight is paramount among them.

For the effective shedding of excess body fat, the perfect combination would be to synchronize diet with a physical training regimen of some sort. You will not only achieve your weight loss aspirations in a quicker duration, but you will also possess a better and more appealing body.

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