It’s All Diet

Stop Worrying About Weight…

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Muscle and fat have very different properties. Muscle fibers are long and slender (like Twizzlers) while fat cells are more “roundy” (like gumballs). Muscle is also far more dense than fat, which means a single pound of muscle takes up only about one third the space of a pound of fat.

There’s more though.

Fat is an energy storage medium. It is energy neutral, just waiting for your body to need it. Muscle on the other hand actually requires that it be physically maintained by you body. The cells of your muscles are continually being replaced and renewed by your body’s natural systems.

Scientists estimate that a single pound of Muscle will burn up to 50 calories a day in “maintenance costs”.

What this means is that if you build one pound of muscle:

  • It will take up less space on your body. You’ll be thinner.
  • You’ll burn 50 more calories every day. 350 a week. That’s a whole “cheat day!”
  • It ‘sits better’ on your frame, firm and bumpy in all the right places.

Don’t worry about weight, worry about the fat. In a later article we’re going to talk about “Body Composition” or “Body Fat Percentage”. How to measure it and what it means for your diet.

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How Much Less Should I Eat?

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In the Previous Article we learned that you lose weight by eating fewer calories than you burn in a given time frame. So the next obvious question to ask is How Much Less? the answer varies quite a bit based on your goals. Additionally there are some caveats to watch out for, if you eat too little you’re going to have trouble as well.

The Short Answer:

The short answer is that you should eat about 250 to 500 calories less than your Base Metabolic Rate per day.

The Detailed Answer

One pound of body fat contains 3,500 calories. It seems generally accepted amongst health professionals that losing 1 to 2 pounds of fat every week is a realistic and maintainable goal. So what you want to do is decide how many pounds you would like to lose. Divide that number by 2 and that’s the number of weeks you’re going to be on your weight loss kick.

Maybe this is the kind of thing that I can write a calculator for… (I’ll get to that next) … follow along past the break to read more about how much you should “short” yourself in order to lose weight.

 

 

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So How Do I Lose Weight?

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One Simple Rule

The most important thing you have to know about weight loss is the following:

If you consume fewer calories than you burn, you will lose weight

If you consume more than you burn, you will store the excess as fat.

 

 

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At the basic and fundamental level, weight loss summarized in that one simple rule. Unfortunately the details of that one simple rule are enough to fill thousands upon thousands of volumes. Going forward, I’m going to attempt to boil that incredible volume of (often contradictory) information into one place.

How many calories are you burning?

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Oooops! Sorry! Please come back soon!

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Well here it is!  It’s All Diet day one.

So sorry to disappoint.  I’ll be getting to fixing this site up within the next few weeks… Promise!

Expect to see:

  1. The story of how I went from 240 pounds to 180
  2. Fitness and Exercise tips, routines and such
  3. Supplement guides and explanation of the science involved.  What works and what doesn’t?
  4. Recipes (Yumm… you don’t get to 240 pounds without knowing how to cook!)
  5. more? What else should I put up here?

Work in progress – this will take time to get right!

 

 

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