My Best Friend and I are on a new workout plan to get to feeling and looking better before her upcoming wedding in August. We are eating right and making our portions just a little bit smaller and increasing the times we eat a day to keep our calorie intake at just the right level.
She recently asked a very good question though! How many calories am I suppose to intake each day and how many is safe to cut back on in my diet and how many is it really safe to burn off.
“If your goal is to lose weight by burning off excess body fat, aim to eat 500 fewer calories per day than your daily caloric needs, and maintain or increase your exercise activity. Do not go below 1200 calories per day unless you are on a medically supervised weight loss program or after consultation with your doctor.” http://walking.about.com/cs/calories/l/blcalcalc.htm
So, what is the lazy man’s way to figure out what you are burning and what you are in-taking? Well, you just have to look on the back of the box silly! Each product you buy is going to have the percentage of calories on the ingredient label and you will just need to add them up! Do a little grade school math. Next up figure out what you burn with out that little extra exercise with this very very handy calculator from Ahealthyme.com http://www.ahealthyme.com/topic/calburncalc I highly recommend their site in understanding a safe and healthy lifestyle.
I was reading in some health forum and I can’t remember where that if you safely cut back about 250 calories out of your regular diet (so maybe skip the fries) and work out with a pedometer and burn 250 more calories a day, that it would be a safe way to loose a pound in a week. Like I said, I don’t know just yet how valid that really is, but I will investigate it further and edit this when I get the research on it done more professionally.
