How to Count Calories to Lose Weight - The Basic Blueprint
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Okay, before we start with the blueprint, I want everybody to keep this in mind: it’s not “weight” you want to lose, but “fat.”
Everybody calls it “weight loss,” but, believe me, you don’t want to be losing muscle in your quest for a thinner body. I’ll be using terms like weight loss and lose weight, but I really mean “fat loss” and “losing fat.”
What I’ve got for you is a 5 step “blueprint” to lose weight by counting calories, covering how many calories you should eat in a day to lose to carb/protein/fat ratios, and more.
If you grab a pen and a piece of paper to write down numbers as you read along, you’ll have a calorie counting plan by the end of it all.
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We all understand how important it is not to eat too much fat, too many carbohydrates or sugar in our diet. However the majority of us don’t know how much and what is in the food we buy in the supermarket. Luckily all items that are packaged have to by law, include what’s in them, for example they have to tell you how much salt and fat is in the item. These have to be clearly labeled on the product that makes it so much simpler, or does it?
Here’s a different way to look at all the extra fat you’re carrying around. See, your body stores any extra calories you eat as fat, right? Your body thinks, “Hey, it might be awhile before we get some food, so let’s stash away all this extra energy.”