Overweight is a hidden disease and it is the second most common “preventable” disease today next to smoking. It is a good thing that more and more people now are starting to be aware of the health risks that is associated with being overweight. They are now more proactive in finding solutions to their growing waistlines and looking for ways to prevent one of the greatest cause of sickness and death, obesity.
If you are on your quest of losing weight, learning how to count calories, your intake and expenditure through out the day would be a great way to start it.
This is not a counting calories guide as I don’t want to get too technical and mathematical with counting calories (not too sexy, lol). but I just want to give you a simple and basic idea on how you could estimate them.
Basically we all need approximately one calorie each minute, simply to keep living. Even while we are sleeping we burn up an average of 500 calories throughout the night. Men and women need around 1000 to 1500 calories every day to keep up with their daily routines.
As I said we burn calories even while we sleep, if you would add sitting and thinking you’ll probably be glad to know that you will burn more calories.
Here are some activities and the approximate number of calories they cost you:
- Thinking 10 calories per hour
- Sitting at rest 20 calories per hour
- Standing 25 calories per hour
- Dressing 35 calories per hour
- Leisure walking 100-125 calories per hour
- Light housework 70 calories per hour
- Light exercise 75-150 calories per hour
- Vigorous Exercise 200-500 calories per hour
- Golf 200 calories per hour
- Swimming 200 calories per hour
Finding out how many calories you would need through the day is a very complex mathematical calculation that would be based on your metabolism, body frame, family genes, physiology, the weather and even your emotional state (no kidding!).
A good way of finding out what type of counting calories diet you need to lose weight is to compute (don’t worry, this is just simple math and still sexy):
Your present bodyweight x 13 = Calorie a day diet
For example, you weigh in around 150 lbs right now;
150 x 13 = 1950
So you’ll need to go on a 2000 calorie a day diet to create a caloric deficit and make your body look for other means to get energy which is from your stored fat.
Following low calorie diets is not that simple because to make it effective, you will need to follow some guidelines and additional measures to maximize fat loss instead of just wasting muscle.
The Idiot Proof Diet is most popular with this kind of dieting with their revolutionary approach called the *Shifting Calories* method. To learn more about shifting calories visit The Idiot Proof Diet and I’m sure you’ll have fantastic guidance in your quest for weight loss.
.
