Lose Weight, What You Need to Know First
To lose one pound you have to burn 3500 calories on top of what you normally burn when your at rest.
So here are a couple things you need to know before designing a diet regimen for your self to lose weight.
1. Know what your BMI is (Body Mass Index). BMI is measurement used to see if your weight is proportioned to your height. It’s important to know where you’re at before anything else. It is also a must to know what your ideal weight should be, this will allow you to set your expectations and prepares you to do the work.
<18.5 BMI = Underweight
18.5-24.9 = Ideal
25.0-29.9 = Overweight
> 30.0 = Obese
2. What is your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate)? This is an estimation of the minimum caloric requirement your body needs to maintain normal functions at rest like breathing, energy used to keep your heart beating, digestions and such things alike. Your BMR is the amount of calories you would burn in a day just to keep all your systems functional. A BMR calculator can be used.
Why do you need to know this? So you can factor the digits into the target amount of calories you’d need to burn in a day to lose weight.
3. Know your activity level. A calorie calculator can be used to figure out how much calories are burned doing everyday activities like walking, cleaning, as well as your routine exercise.
Why do you need to know this? This will help you figure out how much more work you need to add in order to lose those pounds.
4. Last but not the least… Keep track of the calories you eat. I know looking through the Nutritional facts on the package of your meal and calculating how much calories your chicken breast salad contains makes you look like an anorexic teenager but you need to do it. The less calories you eat and and the more you burn equals to losing weight!
Dawn is female, 23 years old, 5′6″ and weighs 170 lbs. She rates a 27.4 on the BMI scale which classifies her as overweight. Her ideal weight should be between 142-156 lbs. This means she’s 28lbs overweight if she wants to weight 142 lbs. Her BMR is 1596.6, aside from office work she does very little labor and lives a sedentary life style so along with the 1596.6 calories she burns you can add 309.4 as the number of calories consume doing office work, this totals to 1906 calories. This means that her body needs to consume 5406 calories to lose 1lb or 151,368 to loose her excess baggage!! Remember the less calories you take in and the more you burn equates to weight loss.
