You’ve heard the statistics, and you’ve seen the numbers. The number of overweight Americans is approaching 50%. Obesity levels are around 34% for all adults over the age of 20. The Standard Western Diet is loaded with foods with large amounts of sugar, fat and processed foods, which have been associated with unhealthy lifestyles such as cardiac disease, stroke, and diabetes.
Weight loss and weight gain can be reduced to simple math. Calorie weight loss happens when you use more calories than you take in

The purpose of any calorie intake for weight loss program is to finish with a negative balance. Or to put it another way, the total number of calories that you eat daily is less than the total number of calories you use by exercising and general living. This negative balance will result in weight loss.

This sounds easier than it really is to accomplish. Just be certain that you take in less calories per day by eating than you use up by living. Sounds simple, doesn’ it? Unfortunately, there are many factors that try to interfere with this simple formula. Such factors such as emotional eating disorders, various health issues, pregnancy or nursing will interfere with the ability to maintain a negative calorie intake for weight loss diet, whether it be a specific diet such as the Atkins Diet or Jennie Craig, or a diet that you created yourself.

Because it is so difficult for many people to maintain this negative calorie intake for weight loss diet, many have tried to find a simpler solution, such as a “magic” diet pill, surgery, patch or food. It has even led to the notion that there are certain foods that have a negative impact on calories because they supposedly take more calories to convert them to energy than they have stored in them.

You’ll learn that the negative calorie foods are supposedly asparagus, broccoli, beets, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, carrot, garlic, papaya, spinach, turnip, zucchini, apples, oranges, lettuce, grapefruit, pineapples, strawberries and raspberries. The reasoning is that you can eat as much of these foods that you want, since they supply important nutrients, plus the added feature that you burn more calories getting to these nutrients than you gain from eating them

But look around at the animal kingdom. Herbivores are doing just fine, thank you, eating their fruits and berries. Calories must be present in these so-called negative foods, albeit in a smaller amount.

One pound of body weight is equivalent to 3500 calories. In order to lose one pound you have to have a calorie deficit of 3500 calories. That’s a simple enough math equation to remember. But remember too that this negative calorie weight loss deficit doesn’t happen in the course of one day.

For instance, let’s say that you normally eat 1800 calories per day to maintain your normal body weight. You then decrease your intake to 1500 calories while increasing the amount of exercise by 200 calories/day. It will take approximately 7 days to lose one pound. Weight loss is simply a mathematical equation that works when you apply it to your calorie weight loss program.

Gaining two or three pounds in one day is next to impossible. This is an example of water weight gain, or the body conserving water at the cellular level. This usually happens to the body during times of stress. You can easily lose the excess water stored in the body by actually increasing the amount of water you drink. The body then realizes that it has a source water and no longer retains anything extra, resulting in a loss of weight.

A negative calorie intake for weight loss schedule combined with increased calorie usage results in a safe weight loss program that becomes permanent as you acclimate yourself to the changes. Studies have also shown that weight loss becomes more permanent if exercise is made part of the general negative calorie weight loss program.

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