A Simple Plan For Weight Loss

When you are trying to work out the amount of calories you need to reduce in your diet in order to lose a pound of weight each week, what you need to know is that one pound of weight equals 3500 calories. In order to lose that many calories from your diet each and every week, you will have to reduce your daily diet by 500 calories, or add in more exercise to compensate for it.

Here are some helpful tips to help you cut out 500 calories from your diet every day:

• Use skimmed or low-fat milk instead of cream in your coffee. That can save you 50 calories per cup.
• Skip the butter on your baked potato. Try other toppings that are lower in fat and calories. That can save you 100 calories.
• Drink flavored water instead of a soda. That can save you 200 calories.
• Skip the Big Mac and other items that are high in fat, and have a salad instead. A Big Mac weighs in at 460 calories, while a salad that is healthy is much less. That can save you 360 calories.
• Pass on the bag of potato chips, they can be high in calories. You can save 300 calories.
• Eat your corn on the ear instead of from a can. A one cup serving of canned corn has 165 calories. You can save 80 calories.
• Switch to low-fat cream cheese spreads on your bagel. That will save you 90 calories per ounce.
• Swap the skinny fries that are high in fat for thicker fries. Thin French fries absorb more oil than the thicker, meatier ones. You can save 50 calories per 4 ounce serving.

Here are some helpful exercise ideas to help you burn off more calories:

• Take a 30 minute walk around the park. Aim for a pace that’s a little faster than a stroll, but not too fast. You can use up 360 calories.
• Get out and ride your bike. Tackle a few moderate hills and try to go for 5 miles, which can help you use up 360 calories.
• Go dancing. The longer that you are out on the dance floor instead of at the table drinking, the more exercise you will get and the more calories you will lose. You could save around 400.
• Swimming is a great way to lose some calories. The water resistance means you burn even more calories, and you can avoid the stress impact on joints from other forms of exercise. Do a few lengths at a slow pace – if you can get up to an hour you can use up 510 calories.
• Get out into your garden. An hour of gardening tasks that includes bending and stretching can burn up to as many calories as walking fast which can help you use up 360 calories.

Try to use both diet and exercise to reach your target of a reduction of 500 calories each day. Remember that the more you exercise, you are also going to build muscle which can help you use up even more calories every time that you exercise.