Diet and Weight Loss

Normally, It is widely considered that for weight loss, not eating anything at all is the way to go. However, it is not what science say. Generalizing tips and diet is not the right way, it is due to the fact that everyone has a different eating pattern and different body needs. A steady weight loss of 0.45 to 0.90 Kg (1 to 2 pounds) per week is found to be much healthy as compare to drastic weight loss of 5 to 10 Kg in a month. Such drastic weight loss, can cause serious harm to the human body. 

Harms of Drastic loss

People tend to fall for products which promise fast weight loss, especially female gender. Such products normally contain a large amount of harmful products. From Diuretics to Hydroxycut all such products leave an adverse effect on your body. Some of these side effects are as:

  • Sleeplessness
  • Damage to the liver
  • Kidney issues
  • Bleeding in the rectum
  • High blood pressure
  • Agitation
  • Diarrhea
  • Accelerated heart rate

All these can cause damage to your regular everyday life. Excess decrease in food and calories intake make you feel tired,  and decrease productivity and creativity.  

Best tip for weightloss

In order to decrease weight in a healthy manner, we will need to do follow a simple diet plan having calories deficit of about 500 to 750 calories. Let’s see it in detail, consider a person who has a body weight of 70 Kg (154 Pounds), height 5’8 feet (176.8 cm). He is a moderately active (exercise 4-5 times a week) at age of 25. If we calculate the maintenance calories, it comes out to be 2,470 calories (use the calculator  for your calculations). Now, in order to have a healthy weight loss you take 2,000 calories. Best way to achieve the goal, of maintaining moderately low calories is by measuring your food.

 Hence, it is the best practice of newbies in fitness. Remember, each gram of fat has 9 calories while each gram of carbohydrates and protein contain 4 calories.  Best of luck on your fitness journey. 

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