Burn Calories to Lose Weight
So you want to burn calories? First you will need to know how many calories you should take in per day. When you know exactly how many calories your body burns in the course of a day, you’ll also know how many calories you need to eat to maintain or lose weight.
Seems like a tall order but there is a handy formula for balancing your energy equation. If you want to calculate how many calories burned in a day you need to know a few things before you can proceed.
A major key in weight loss is consuming fewer calories than we burn. Do this by eating fewer simple sugar products, like candy, cookies, and other sugar based products, and by eating fewer foods that contain white flour, like white bread, donuts, pizza, and bagels. Instead, opt for whole grain foods, non processed foods, low sodium foods, lean proteins, green vegetables, high fiber foods, and plenty of fresh fruits! Keep your metabolism HIGH by exercising MORE. The more you exercise, the more you burn calories! The more calories you burn, the more weight you'll lose! That's only common sense!
RDA Calculator GuideIf you want to burn calories, you'll first need to calculate your Basal Metabolic Rate. BMR is the minimum number of calories you need to stay alive.(Aint breathing great?) Next you need to determine your energy output. That is based on your activity level. Level categories include: sedentary, light, moderate, and strenuous. Level values include low, medium, and high for each of the various category levels. Just move the bar around and you'll see how it works! Next you’ll need to determine your activity category level! If for example, you usually clean the house a bit each day, you do more than a little, but you don't do a lot, then you would fall into the medium level of the light category. Make sense? Now I could give you the mathematics to calculate it for yourself, but instead use the provided handy calculator! Please feel free to use it all you like and refer your friends to use it too! (You must use the 'calculate' button every time you change the number or change the activity level!) Of course this is just an average. We all know that some people burn calories more efficiently than others! If you fall into that category, you’ll can add some extra calories per day to even it out. If you find that you’re getting too many calories per day, then deduct a few and visa versa. If you want to lose weight, then you'll need to cut back on the amount of calories you consume!~ One of the best ways to cut back on what you eat is to keep a food journal. They have been touted as the foundation for any weight loss plan! You can download a free one on the referring page! Twelve Great Ways to Burn Calories1. Instead of riding elevators or escalators, take the stairs. However, you won't lose any weight at all if you don’t know how many calories your body needs to burn daily.
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