Weight Loss: Little Changes Mean a Lot

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Weight Loss: Little Changes Mean a Lot

 

 

Right now, sitting at your computer, you're burning

calories. That's the good news.

 

The bad news is you're not burning much. If you eat

one candy bar while tapping at your mouse, you've

swallowed about 230 calories - and it'll take almost

five hours sitting at the PC to burn off that one bar,

or eight hours watching TV.

 

Remember this: Doing almost anything for a half hour

burns more calories than sitting still.

 

Activity (for 30 min.) Calories Burned per 150-lb.

person

Watching TV 27

Working at a PC 50

Food shopping 126

Walking the dog 158

Playing tennis 200

 

 

Every 3,500 calories you eat turns into roughly a

pound of body fat. Burn an extra 100 calories every

day for a year, and you've erased 36,500 calories from

your system - or more than 10 pounds of body fat. Just

as different activity choices matter (check out our

Fitness Upgrades), so do little differences in food

choices:

 

Eating... Instead of... Every day saves...

1 slice, whole-wheat toast 1 bagel-shop bagel 175

calories per day

2 tbsp. balsamic vinegar 2 tbsp. regular salad

dressing 115 calories per day

1 cup hot cocoa from mix 1 chocolate bar 130 calories

per day

 

 

Too simple? In a way, it is.

 

Genetics and hormones affect the rate at which each of

us gains or loses weight, and our bodies have

self-defense mechanisms against massive weight loss.

The first pound you lose is always easier than the

tenth or twentieth! But the rates of success for

people who've learned how to lose weight and keep it

off are better than you might think.

 

 

 

 

 

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Language is an expression of thought. Everytime you speak, your mind is on

Parade Exodus 20:8-11 & Hebrews 4:9

 

 

 

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