Folks, other than water weight loss, the way to lose weight is to take in less calories than you burn. For some it is to burn more calories than you take in. Activity helps to tone muscles and more muscle burns more calories.
If your body burns 1,200 calories a day, as an example, and you eat 1,000 calories a day you will lose one pound every 15 days, approx.
Now the pound you will lose will depend on when you eat and what. Will it be a pound of muscle due to inactivity and then since you lost a pound of muscle you will, without doing anything other than being alive and breathing, use less calories and so if you keep eating the same you will lose less, and more muscle loss you will burn less. Go back to eating normal and you will gain weight because you have less muscle to burn calories.
Once you understand that it should not be hard to lose weight.
I think the challenge for most is really knowing how many calories are in everything you eat. Especially things you consider healthy.
Ben Raines
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"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties." Sir Francis Bacon
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