It's all about body fat. The way I see it and from what I've read, Women naturally have more body fat than men. Some of a person's body fat is inside to protect and cushion your organs and because of a women's reproductive organs women would naturally have more internal body fat, and then during a pregnancy the amount of internal body fat would naturally have to increase.
The more body fat a person has, the slower the metabolism works and the fewer calories you burn during a normal days activities. That's one reason why heavy people will need to be more active to lose weight then a thin person. In order to lose weight your metabolism or the engine of the body that burns your calories to create energy, has to burn more calories than what you consume. Yes, it's extremely hard to know how many calories your burning everyday, but you can count the number of calories you consume.
It's an old theory that "if you cut the calories you consume you'll lose weight". Okay, there's some merit to that theory, but if you don't know how much you burn, how are you suppose to know how many calories to cut.
This is the question that most dieters have trouble with. "How am I suppose to know how many calories should I cut to lose weight." Many of us quit your diets because the diets weren't working and most of the time it's because of that energy balance. Even when we diet, we can't burn enough calories to lose weight.
And why is that, it's because we have too much extra body fat. So, How do I lose that extra fat? you might ask. The biggest reason that most of us can't lose weight is about the diet. If your eating pizza, fried chicken, sausage sandwiches, hamburgers and hot dogs, and drinking soda, sweet tea, lattes and other sweet drinks; just cutting back on some of that food is not going to help you lose weight.
There are foods that will actually help you lose body fat but restaurant foods aren't on that list. One thing that's more important than cutting calories is to start eating the right foods. The frozen dinners that are low-cal sold by these diet companies aren't really good either. Their full of food additives and other chemicals that make the food tasty and the food is low in calorie but the portions are very small that most people just end-up snacking more.
To lose weight you need to start preparing your own meals. Several small meals everyday. The object is to never get hungry. If you get hungry you're waiting too long to eat. You should eat something every three hours or so. But it's more than just eating small meals. You have to eat fresh. This means to eat only fresh foods. When it comes to vegetables, I buy them frozen, just buy the plain ones with no sauce, fruits buy fresh. Don't eat processed foods. While you're trying to lose weight avoid dairy, except Greek Yogurt, that's okay. Try to only eat fish or poultry very little red meat. Red meat only once a week if that much and buy it fresh. Don't drink anything sweet. black tea or coffee and water lots of water and don't forget to walk. Walk as much as possible. Walk the dog. Can you walk to work or walk the kids to school? Park far away from the stores, you'll get less dings on your car. If you can avoid using elevators do that. Do anything to get more exercise, every little bit helps.
You can lose weight if you really put your mind to it. Remember the trick is to change your life and live a new life, a life of doing things a better way.
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