GETTING STARTED: How to manage your weight.
When you begin a diet, there is always a stimulus that gets you motivated. There is also a goal that you want to achieve. That might be a weight or a clothes size or a number of pounds to get off. It is important to understand where you are with your nutrition prior to starting your diet in order to make the right choices during your diet.
I always suggest to my patients that they count their calories for about two weeks to get a daily average of calories. Let us say that your daily calorie count is 2500. For every pound that you want to lose, you have to decrease your baseline intake by 3500 calories. That means you need to eat 2000 calories a day to lose one pound a week during the initial period of your diet. 500 calories X seven days = 3500
Obviously you won't continue to lose one pound per week forever. That is because as your total weight decreases you need less food and calories. At the point when your weight levels off, you will need to reevaluate how you will remove more calories from your diet.
If you have questions on how to count calories, let me know. There is a website my practice created to help my patients count calories called www.myphonediet.com. Check it out it is free.
I always suggest to my patients that they count their calories for about two weeks to get a daily average of calories. Let us say that your daily calorie count is 2500. For every pound that you want to lose, you have to decrease your baseline intake by 3500 calories. That means you need to eat 2000 calories a day to lose one pound a week during the initial period of your diet. 500 calories X seven days = 3500
Obviously you won't continue to lose one pound per week forever. That is because as your total weight decreases you need less food and calories. At the point when your weight levels off, you will need to reevaluate how you will remove more calories from your diet.
If you have questions on how to count calories, let me know. There is a website my practice created to help my patients count calories called www.myphonediet.com. Check it out it is free.
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