Two Easy Steps to Look Amazing this Winter
If you are wanting to look your best for the party season this year now is the time to make your action plan. Once upon a time, we just counted our calories and made a reduction enough to lose those extra pounds. It’s a tiresome exercise, weighing food and referring to calorie charts daily and in recent years, there has been more emphasis on the types of food we eat rather than the calorific value.
So do calories really count anymore if you want to lose weight?
The truth is that if you reduce your calorie intake by 3500 calories per week ( or 500 calories per day) you will lose 1-2lbs each week. However, controlling the content of those calories will make your weight loss easier to maintain. Keeping sugar and starchy carbohydrates to a minimum and making up your calories from good quality protein, lots of green fruit and vegetables and healthy fats will squash hunger cravings and pro promote a better body shape and improve your overall health, promote a better body shape and improve your overall health.
Increasing your activity levels will burn calories and therefore mean you have more flexibility for food and improve your muscle tone and body shape.
Therefore if you follow these two easy steps you will reach your goal. You need to reduce your calorie intake by 250kcals a day and increase the amount of energy you burn by 250kcals a day.
Step One:
Increase your daily activity to burn 250 kcals a day. (This energy expenditure should be on top of what you normally do now).
e.g.250kcals
= A 30 minute RENU workout
= A 45 minute brisk walk
= 60 minutes Pilates class
= 60 minutes vacuuming and sweeping the floor
= 45 minutes moderate cycling
Step Two:
Reduce your calorie intake by 250 kcal daily.
e.g. 250kcals
= 3 bourbon biscuits
= A large glass of wine
= An ounce of cheese and 2 biscuits
= A Mars bar
= 50g ‘grab bag’ of crisps
By doing this, you are creating an energy deficit of 500kcals a day and 3500kcals a week. This equates to losing 1-2 pounds of weight a week.
Even more importantly, by creating an energy deficit of 500kcals a day, you will be burning fat cells. This means you will be more likely to maintain your loss and you will improve your muscle tone.
However, beware of ‘crash diets!’
It is tempting to try to cut out more calories to lose weight quicker, but beware. If you were to cut out more calories a day than advised on the energy deficit, you would be ‘crash dieting’. Crash diets can make your weight drop dramatically, however the weight lost will go back on just as quickly.
This means that if you start now you could lose 12 – 14 pounds before the party season starts! Our Little Black Dress Challenge is the perfect way to plan to look amazing for the party season with weekly motivation, dietary advice and lots of fun workouts to attend.
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