Exercise is a proven weight-loss technique.
Your body reacts in certain ways every time you put food and drink into it. These reactions are either desirable or undesirable, based on what your goals include. Weight loss is one reaction your body has and is a desired goal many people attempt and fail to achieve. Science and weight loss go hand in hand. Everything you put into your body contains a certain amount of calories. Calories are the unit of measurement for energy contained in food. One pound of body fat contains 3,500 calories. By using simple math, figure your own weight-loss capability.
Instructions
1. Determine your daily and weekly caloric intake. Record, in a journal, all the food and drink you consume in one day. Find the amount of calories in each by reading attached labels or finding the information online. Add the calories of only the amount you eat or drink in a given day. Multiply by seven to get your approximate weekly intake.
2. Choose an exercise routine. Search the Internet, read books and magazines or consult a local gym for the most popular exercise programs.
3. Find out how many calories your chosen exercise burns per 30 minutes. Perform an Internet search to discover these totals. Use keywords such as "calories burned."
4. Figure how many calories total you burn per day from exercise. If you exercise one hour, multiply the calories burned in Step 3 by two to get a daily total.
5. Calculate your adjusted daily caloric intake. Subtract the total calories burned during exercise from your daily caloric intake in Step 1.
6. Set a goal to burn 500 calories more per day than you currently take in. This totals the 3,500 extra calories you need to burn per week to lose a pound of body fat.
Tags: caloric intake, calories burned, amount calories, body contains, daily caloric, daily caloric intake, food drink