Here's another thing
you may have been thinking. "I know how to lose weight... just eat
fewer calories than I burn. I got that. I know I can do this by eating
about 500 calories less than my maintenance level. But, instead of
eating below my maintenance level, couldn't I just workout more and
therefore burn more calories?" The answer is YES!
If
your maintenance level is 3000 calories a day, and you are eating the
full 3000 calories a day, you could lose weight by working out and
burning those 500 calories each day. You'd still end up in the same
calorie deficit this way just as you would by eating less. The only real
difference is that it's quite a bit more work to burn off 500 calories
every day through exercise than it is to just eat 500 less calories
daily.
Weight
loss is all about being in that calorie deficit. While you can
technically accomplish this either way (through diet or workout), the
best idea in terms of results and all around health is to do it using a
combination of both if you can. A proper diet plan combined with a
proper workout is the ideal weight loss scenario. But, I'll talk more
about that later. First I need to cover one final Phase 1 question you
may have...
"While
explaining how to lose weight, you have only really mentioned calories.
What about protein, carbs and fat? Don't they matter?" The answer is
yes, but not in the way you might think.
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