If you need to lose weight, you need to minimize the amount of calories that you are taking in by monitoring how many you are consuming.
The average person should consume about 1800 to 2000 calories per day. If you are dieting and need to lose weight, you need to reduce this amount to at 1500 to 1600 calories per day. Go with the reductions that your doctor recommends here so that you have enough fuel for the day but are not allowing your body to store the extra fuel as fat throughout your body.
When it comes to improving your diet fitness, you need to take into consideration the location that you are right now.
What do you eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner? How many calories are you consuming per day?
To help you to see the clear picture of what’s happening to your health in the foods that you eat, take note of how a normal day or week goes for you. Here are some steps to follow to find out how healthy your diet actually is and how healthy it isn’t!
- Spend one or two days recording the foods that you eat in an average day on a piece of paper. All foods and drinks should be noted!
- Figure out how many calories you are consuming in an average day.
- Look at your list of foods and see how many of them are high in transaturated fats, sugars and calories in general.
- How many servings of vegetables and fruits are you getting? How many servings of protein has been lean protein? Did you get in any whole grains? How much soda did you drink (which puts pounds on your waist each time?)
- How often did you eat without actually being hungry but being instead bored, anxious, stressed or otherwise emotionally impared?
Seeing just how much in calories as well as in unhealthiness can really cause them to see what reality really is rather than to assume they are doing okay.
