Weight Loss Shams

I read through dozens of newsletters and posts from weight loss websites and many of them are selling something. Every site or every company has something their pushing and they're taking advantage of people who have been trying to lose weight for years without success. I want to try to change your mind about losing weight. It's really easier than you might think.

Your need to forget about anything you think you know about weight loss, and get back to the basics. Losing weight is all about your diet and your activity level or how active you are. We'll start from scratch, the biggest mistake people make is that they don't want to give up the food they love, the food they grew up with. That's the mistake. You have to give up all the food you love, and that's the truth. You have to start your life over, there's no easy way, no short cuts. You can be a much healthier person with more energy and less body fat. You'll look better in clothes and you'll look better when you look in the mirror. You'll be a happier person.

It doesn't cost money to lose weight, it just takes a willingness to do it. I started by reading about weight lose. I read everything I saw and everything I could find on the internet. Now I'm a busy guy who doesn't have a lot of free time but there's nothing on TV anymore and I'm not into social media person so after dinner I browse the internet for good websites.

Back when I first started to investigate weight loss there wasn't as much information available, but today health food, celebrity diets and new diet pills are all the rage. Be careful about the information you believe. Losing weight is simply eat food that your body can use as fuel to create energy. That's called burning calories. The trick is to burn more than you eat.

So how many calories do I burn? That a guessing game. Everyone's different and everyone will burn a different amount of calories. The body works in "real-time", Your body will burn food for energy as it uses it. Medical science can only give us averages. They take a large group of people and give them the same amount of food and keep checking their weight and decide if they are losing weight or gaining weight and just their food until there is no weight changes and then they can assume that's the proper amount of calories. So it's not an exact science but they have no other way. What makes this hard to guess is that you might be the same size as someone else in your group but if you have more body fat you will burn fewer calories and if you move less than the next person you'll burn fewer calories.  The more you sit, the fewer calories you burn and there can be only small differences in behavior but it will make a difference in the number of calories we burn.

So how do you lose weight? Start over with your food. Buy only fresh fruits and vegetables. Shop twice a week for the fresh stuff. When you have a list you can get in and out quick. The other stuff is a little more difficult. Some Diet Gurus will tell you to avoid dairy except for Greek Yogurt and get protein from some meat but mostly fish and protein powder like the kind you use in protein shakes. It's plant-based protein which is said to be healthier than animal protein. And I can understand that Animal protein has some animal fat mixed with it and animal fat is what you're trying to avoid.

I like the Mediterranean plan or sometimes called the food pyramid. You can find examples on my Home Page or on the internet. I made my food choices for the pyramid. There's no calories to count and you eat all you want, just stick to the pyramid and get in all the walking you can. I recommend 10,000 steps a day. This exercise plan has been around for a while and it works. It's great for beginners and because most people only take about 5000 steps a day you'll double your active level and lose weight. The diet will give you all the energy you need and in a few weeks you'll be losing weight and you'll start to feel good again.