Weight Gain -- How To Lose Body Fat And Reach Your Ideal Body WeightWeight gain and your ideal body weight
Now, pay attention here. If you really understand this you'll know why you gain weight. Lets say your ideal weight is 150 pounds (about 75 kilograms.) If you take in the right amount of energy you'll stay at 150 pounds. Let's just say it's 1700 calories per day, just for the sake of discussion. It's somewhere in that range. But then you gain weightOK. Now, one day you look down and your belly is hanging down to your knees. And now you weigh 300 pounds (about 150 kilograms.) Uh oh!!You're double your ideal weight. How did that happen? Does that mean that you've been eating double? Does that mean you've been eating 3400 calories every day?
What happened?You don't have to eat double to weigh double. In fact, just continue to make bad food choices and you might never see your feet again. It's that easy.If you need 1700 calories and you eat more than that -- even 2000 or 2200 calories -- your weight will just creep up. And up. And up... That's just a few hundred calories extra each day. You easily get that many calories in one trip to the drive-through take-out restaurant. And you know that
if you eat restaurant food you'll gain weight.
Weight gain -- how it worksIt's your lean body mass that burns up the calories. If you weigh 150 pounds -- and you need 1700 calories and you take in 1700 calories -- you don't gain weight.But what if you take in more -- let's say 2000 calories? That's 300 extra calories per day. Then the extra calories get stored. As fat. There's 3500 calories in a pound of fat. So, when you take in an extra 3500 calories over what you need, you gain one more pound of fat. Doesn't seem fair, does it?
Imagine you double your weightSo let's say you now weigh 300 pounds, just to keep the math simple.You weight twice as much. Can you eat twice as many calories? Do you need 3400 calories now? No, you don't. It's much less than 3400 calories. It might be 2500, or somewhere in that range. To know for sure you'd have to experiment and see. But it doesn't take twice as many calories to weigh twice as much.
I don't eat that muchSo when you say, "But I don't eat that much," it's probably true.See, you don't have to eat double to weigh double. And you only have to eat a little more than you need to be 20, 30 or more pounds overweight. No, it's not fair. But that's the way it is.
Is there a solution?So what should you do? Well, you can start with
some simple steps that have been proven to help lose weight.
And watch the
hidden calories that can ruin your waistline.
When you're ready to lose weightAnd by the way, if you don't have a copy of
Dr. Dan's Super Weight Loss Plan
you should get your copy today. It has everything you need to lose that extra weight and keep it off.
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