Weight Loss by the Numbers

Totally eliminate chips and breads from your snacks list - almost! I like Doritos as well as the next guy and I eat them once or so a week. The trick, eat just 5 or 6 chips as your snack and chase it with a zero calorie beverage, such as the now popular NO Sugar Kool -Aids. (Make sure you don't have any adverse reactions to the "none sugar" additives in these beverages. Have a doctor check you out and make sure your metabolism isn't affected by the sugar substitutes -- Or get accustomed to drink bottled water --- can't get any healthier than that.)

Snack as you feel yourself getting hungry.... Don't wait until your stomach is roaring. Put something in your stomach ever 4 waking hours to maximize your weight loss! I small light food and a ZERO calorie beverages as "fillers". Then have a complete 600 or 700 calories meal dinner. For weight loss purposes I've found it doesn't matter what you eat as a major meal as long as you keep it under 700 calories. Snacks should not be more than 200 calories and a lunch shouldn't be over 500 to 600 calories.

If you didn't eat any chips, drink any "regular" sodas or juice or cup cakes you'll discover you'd have to eat like a horse just to reach the 2,000 calories most people naturally burn everyday. A couple of biblical fasts from sweets per week can go a long way toward your weight loss goals. Remember anything below 2,000 calories is paying your weight loss bill. For health sake be certain you eat at least 1,000 calories per day - for most people - anything less is getting dangerous!

Walk for one hour per day! Walk, at the best pace you can maintain. Even if you have to build up to an hour, do what you can until you get up to an hour per day. Build up to at least 5 miles per day, and when you do this, even, if you eat like its going out of style, you will NOT gain another pound (So I've heard but haven't tested it.)

Here are the numbers you should use to plan out your daily diet and potential weight control program:

From the website, "How stuff works" they say a person burns roughly 2,000 calories per day and then it requires the burning of 3,500 calories to loose a pound.

A one hour walk burns between 350 to 500 calories depending on your weight and the intensity of your walk so you are looking at about 2,500 calories being burned per day. This is important to know for your weight loss goals.

Keep your balanced diet calorie count at 1,500 calories per day you almost have to eat some junk food to even reach this amount of calories without feeling stuffed all day. For example look at your calorie counts under the vegetables chart, you'd have to eat an ungodly amount of cabbage, greens, broccoli, etc., to come any where near 1,500 calories.... That's the beauty of food combination! You can reach your weight loss goals by being devoted to eating and enjoying these high fiber types of foods, it allows you to eat other higher calorie foods in moderate amounts.

Now do the simple math:

Based on a 2,500 calorie per day usage and you take in 1,500 calories per day. If you consume 1,000 fewer calories per day the result would be a 2 pound weight loss per week or 104 pounds in weight loss per year!

This is all done without you EVER being hungry. You mentally never should be beating yourself up... eat a cheat food as long as you stay in under your 1,500 calories as part of your per day weight loss goals. Remember to stay hydrated by drinking a ZERO calorie drink with every meal or snack.