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Many people believe that counting calories and reducing the amount that you eat is the only thing that you need to do to lose weight. In fact this is usually the first thing most people do when looking to lose weight – check the calorie content of their favorite foods.
The problem is that often times, just by reducing your calories, you actually can slow down your metabolism making it even more difficult to lose weight.
If we accept the premise that we must do more than count calories weight loss — real long term and significant weight loss — will be something that we can look forward to and, in fact, actually achieve. So what other aspects of our personal lifestyles must we address in order to drop unnecessary pounds? No doubt you’ve probably heard this many, many times before, but an appropriate amount of exercise is also critical to lasting weight reduction. Changes in diet alone typically won’t be enough for most of us to get the weight loss results we’re hoping for. Instead, we’ve got to safely increase our physical activity. We’ve got to get off our rear ends and get our bodies moving in order to reach our weight loss goals.
Activity is essential to our overall well being. When we rely solely on reducing calories weight loss is more than likely going to be much more difficult for us to achieve, because we need to raise our energy levels and boost our metabolism when we reduce the amount of food in our diets. While it may be appropriate to cut back on our daily food intake because we’re exceeding the amount of calories our body needs to function properly, cutting back too harshly or too quickly will likely have very adverse affects on our ability to lose weight. The bottom line is that we’ve simply got ensure that we’re getting the right amount of exercise, otherwise by simply cutting down on calories weight loss will not come as expected.
I believe it’s important to be smart when trying to lose weight and you need to stick to what works best for you (there is no ‘one’ magical diet that works for everyone. The safest way to lose weight is actually visit your doctor or health care professional and approach your weight loss as healthy as you can. Just starting to count calories, fat grams and the like isn’t enough for long term sustainable weight loss.
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