In our eat-and-run, massive-portion-sized culture, maintaining a healthy
weight can be tough—and losing weight, even tougher. If you’ve tried
and failed to lose weight before, you may believe that diets don’t work
for you. You’re probably right: most diets don’t work—at least not in
the long term. However, there are plenty of small but powerful ways to
avoid common dieting pitfalls, achieve lasting weight loss success, and
develop a healthier relationship with food.
The key to successful, healthy weight loss
Successfully managing your weight comes down to a simple equation: If
you eat more calories than you burn, you gain weight. And if you eat
fewer calories than you burn, you lose weight. Sounds easy, right? Then
why is losing weight so hard?
Well for one, weight loss isn’t a linear
event over time. When you cut calories, you may drop a pound or so each
week for the first few weeks, for example, and then something changes.
You eat the same number of calories but you lose less weight. And then
the next week you don’t lose anything at all. That’s because when you
lose weight you’re losing water and lean tissue as well as fat, your
metabolism slows, and your body changes in other ways. So, in order to
continue dropping weight each week, you’ll need to continue cutting
calories.
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