It's been awhile since my last entry to this blog. I wanted to take a few minutes to share some more information with you guys that I picked up on the way to becoming someone normal in size: The calorie.
It's important to understand what a calorie is in order to lose weight because they can either be your friend or your enemy, depending on how you use them.
Simply put, a calorie is a unit of energy, similar to a joule. A calorie is the amount of heat energy required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by 1 degree C. Basically, the more calories a food item contains, the more energy you're going to have to expend in order to "work off" the food you just ate. In food, we express calories in kilocalories (kcal) which means 1000 calories, or the amount of heat energy needed to heat one kilogram of water by one degree C.
Your body has something that is known as "basal metabolic rate" which means how many calories your body will go through while doing nothing - not even digesting food. Factors that influence your BMR include your age and body fat - as you lose weight, you will have to eat less to maintain your mass.
This brings me to my next thought: Many people begin to lose weight, and then all the sudden they stop! They don't realize that their current diet is allowing them to eat more calories than their BMR will allow them to expend. These people are faced several options, including eating less calories a day or increase your activity level to force your body to expend more calories than it is taking in on a daily basis.
The above information REALLY helped me to decide how I was going to lose more than a few pounds here and there. I onced heard this quote an it's very true:
Think smarter, not harder.
Remember that each any everyday you wake up and begin how to think you're going to deal with today's ordeals.
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