Healthy Weight Loss Tips

Original Article @ Lose Weight USA

Healthy Weight Loss
Your BMR is the key

Have you cut you food intake but are still struggling to reach your healthy weight loss goal, well maybe you are not eating enough.

Although we live in the 21st century, our bodies are still programmed for the Cenozoic Era. When our ancestors were out hunting tigers and foraging for food, their bodies burned major calories, keeping them naturally fit. However, when winter came and food was scarce, their bodies slowed down and went into sort of a hibernation mode. It used fat storage and slowed their metabolism down to keep them alive during these hard times. Nature has designed our bodies to survive times of famine and starvation, so when you drastically cut calories to "lose weight,"your body goes into starvation/hibernation mode. When this happens, your metabolism slows down or hibernates because it believes you're living through a famine.

It doesn't realize that there is a grocery store down the street along with 5 fast-food chain restaurants. When you deprive your body of precious calories, not only does your metabolism slow down dramatically, your energy levels go down leaving y ou more sedentary. In addition, you're probably ravenous because you're not consuming enough food, which causes you to overeat and most-likely gain back some if not all the weight you have lost. This is why crash-dieting or restrictive calorie diets don't work. In fact – get rid of the word diet from your vocabulary altogether. Life shouldn't be about dieting. I've been catching up on some reading and the problem most of us have in gaining weight or not losing weight is not caused by over-eating, it is caused by lack of physical activity.

To better understand how our bodies work and survive, you first need to know how your body uses calories. Your body burns a certain amount of calories just to stay alive, meaning to pump your heart, maintain your organs, and repair muscle. This is known as your BMR or your Basal Metabolic Rate. You can figure this out by seeing a metabolic specialist or if you don't have time, money, or the resources you can figure it out by using this calculation. Mind you – this calculation may not be 100% accurate but it can give you a good idea of what you are burning just by being alive.

To do the calculation:

Step 1: Multiply your weight in pounds by 4.4
Step 2: Multiply your height in inches by 4.7
Step 3: Add answers from Step 1 and Step 2
Step 4: Multiply your age in years by 4.7
Step 5: Subtract Step 4 answer from Step 3
Step 6: Add 655 to the answer from Step 5

Once you have worked out your figures if you eat less calories your body will go into starvation mode and as lo remember that to allow an addition 10% to cover the bodies food digesting process

David Ogden
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