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HOW TO
COUNT CALORIES
Welcome
to your guide on how to count calories! Without a shadow of a doubt the
most common goal that personal trainers and fitness instructors are
faced to help clients with is losing weight. Obviously if you are
looking at losing belly fat, taking weight off the hips, if you want
that hard body look, or appear more toned and defined instead of having
that ‘soft’ look that body fat provides us with… That fat has gotta go!
This
guide provides all the tools you need to strip off unwanted fat the
healthy way, so you can maintain and keep your new body. It teaches you
how to count calories but that very task wont be a daily burden. In
other words, you will only need to work out how many calories to eat
per day, and then stick to a diet plan that keeps you in that daily
range, rather than having to count the calories of every food you eat!
Use the following information as your health
and fitness plan to learn how to count calories for you to
successfully lose weight.
First,
understand this…
The
calories that come from food provide us with energy for our daily
lives. If we eat more than what our bodies burn up in a day the excess
calories quite easily get stored as fat!
Here
is your step by step plan:
Note:
The following steps from 1 to 7 are a very in depth guide, and
quite frankly if you do the work it will pay off. Success does
come at a price! However, if you are not keen on putting in too
much effort right now here is a more basic plan of attack: visit
this page.
1.
Work
out your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) and Total Daily Energy Expenditure
(TDEE)
This is
necessary to establish your starting point to find out how many
calories you need just to maintain your current weight.
2.
Detemine
how many calories you should consume to actually start losing fat
This is
necessary to establish your starting point to find out how many
calories you need just to maintain your current weight.
3.
Balance
out the right portions of proteins,
carbohydrates and fats
‘You are
what you eat!' If you incorporate the right foods in
the right portions into your new eating plan, that higher sense of well
being is right around the corner. Imagine achieving your
weight loss goal, looking good, and also having clear skin and energy
within! Incorporating the right nutrition strategy will make
success even sweeter.
4.
Use
the low
Glycaemic Index (low GI foods) to your advantage
Learn how
low GI foods will help control your appetite and delay hunger.
From this
point on, you’ll have all the information you need to put
together a meal plan containing the right amount of calories you need
to lose fat. You wont have to know how to count calories
every day, because you have already done that to create your meal
plan. All you have to do is follow it!
5.
Learn
why exercise is a vital part of your weight loss plan
6.
Exercise
tips on losing weight
The best
weight loss plan you can have is one that reduces your calorie
intake through foods you consume, but also increases calorie usage by
your body through being more active. This topic is about
weight loss, so I won’t mention the plethora of other benefits that
come along with exercise as part of your life!
7.
Tips
and tricks for your eating
Here are a
few extra guidelines to help you along with your weight loss
goals.
Learning how
to
count calories in the beginning is an awesome tool that will benefit
your weight loss plans in the long run. Eating less calories
than what you’d burn up in a day, and mixing that with the appropriate
amount of exercise are a magic combination. The crucial part
of this fact is that you want to make darn sure you do it right so it
doesn’t turn in to a fad diet where you end up worse off than when you
started. You will need to incorporate the principles I am
sharing with you on these pages in to your daily life. It
will have to be a part of you.
Why do you
think the rich keep getting richer? Because they
know how to accumulate money and, more importantly, how to keep
it. Why do you think the majority of people who win the lotto
end up in a worse financial position a year down the track?
Because they have accumulated money without actually earning it, and
because of that fact they do not know how to manage and keep it.
What on
earth does the above example have to do with learning how to
count calories? Think about this... If we could put the mind
of someone who has spent a lifetime living unhealthy, who is
overweight, and a risk of various diseases on to the body of a primed
model athlete, within days that athlete's appearance would change for
the worse due to the thinking and habits that the unhealthy mind has
created. Similarly, put the mind of of that athlete on the
body of the person who spent a lifetime being unhealthy, and that body
would start to change within days for the better.
Like the
rich have a mindset that the poor don't, you need to learn the
mindset of the healthy people!
If you can
learn how to manipulate your body weight the healthy way you
will gain the right mental attitude to be able to maintain and live the
life you dreamed of with regard to health and fitness. And
that is what this page on how to count calories will help you to do.
Imagine if
you just clicked your fingers now, and you instantly
received your ideal body. Would be fantastic right?
Well, for a short time anyhow. The reason you don’t have your
ideal body now is because you are not in the habit of doing the things
you need to do in order to achieve and maintain your ideal
body. And if you received your dream body in an instant,
you’d quickly revert to your current self because of your current
habits and thoughts, just like those people who end up in the same or
worse financial position who win the lotto.
Ever heard
of the saying… ‘if you do what you’ve always done, you’ll
get what you’ve always gotten?’
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