Can't Lose Weight?

 Ninety percent  of people fail or regain the weight they lost. That's the main reason most of us give up on weight loss. I had to learn how the body works before I could lose any weight  permanently.

The verywell.com website and others contain excellent advice on weight loss. I learned that on average North American consume about 3500 calories a day. That's a sum of all the solid foods plus all the liquids we consume. The problem is that your body can't burn that many calories. The average person that uses a gym everyday for one hour will only burn about 300 calories. On average, humans burn only the amount of calories needed to perform the tasks they are doing. The body works in real-time, so when you walk up stairs you are burning more calories than if you walked on a flat surface. 

Men might normally burn more calories than a man. So, if we get real about your calorie burn, the average office worker might burn between 1000-1500 calories a day. Add a one workout and your still below 2000 calories. Now in order to lose any weight you want to consume 400 calories a day less than you burn. That means you should consume about 1000-1200 calories if you are working out and have a desk job. 

Some people don't work behind a desk, they might stand or walk during working hours, like your UPS or Amazon driver. People that work construction or do landscaping will probably burn even more calories.  Most workers will peak out at about 2500 calories a day no matter what type of job they have.

It's not easy to calculate your calorie burn. Most people believe they burn more than they actually burn. That's the main reason people give up on dieting. When you diet and you aren't losing, change your diet or just make a change. 

You can't exercise away a bad diet. When you cut calories don't cut back on food, stop drinking calories. If you're still not losing, change the food you eat. Veggies have less calories. Eat fresh foods and fresh cut meat, stop eating high-calorie foods, like dairy, cold-cuts, even bread and other bakery goods. You don't want to starve but eating fresh foods and or nutrition and less calories than food that comes in a box or can. 

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