WeighLess Habits

The Biggest Small Change that Can Help You Lose Weight and Feel Better Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, wrote "walking is a man's best medicine". Walking is a basic part of our human experience but with our busy lives and all of our modern conveniences not many of us take the time to do much of it. We spend our days driving from one place to another, looking for the closest parking spots and taking the elevators not the stairs. We get home from our busy, stressful days to make dinner and settle in front of the T.V. or computer. We mindlessly pass the time for the rest of the evening flipping through the channels or scrolling Facebook. Most of us say we have a problem with snacking in the evening or even think that we are hungrier at night but the truth is we often overeat because we are bored not hungry.  Even those of us that are busy in the evenings shuttling kids to activities, we still spend a lot of time sitting, waiting and staring at our p

How Many Calories Should You Eat a Day?  When you start looking into the best ways to lose weight one thing that comes up often is to cut your calories back to 1200 per day. Yes, that will cause you to lose weight however, that is definitely not the best way to lose weight and keep it off permanently. When you cause your body to go into that much of a deficit, it will adapt quickly to save energy and at that point that is the number of calories your body will come to expect. When you return to eating more calories, which you will need to do at some point, your body will still be running just fine on 1200 calories so all the extra calories you eat will turn to fat and cause you to gain all the weight back plus more.  Your body will also start eating away at your muscle for fuel causing you to lose the lean muscle mass that gives your body form. Plus, lean muscle is metabolically active which means it burns fat so you will burn less calories per day when you lose muscle.