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First published: 14.Oct.2018

Overview

Realistic Weight Loss Tips

Successful weight loss requires a plan, persistence, and staying power. There are no pills, herbal remedies, or quick fixes to help you do it.

Weight loss is linked to better health, so get rid of those extra pounds and you will notice how your life quality improves.

This page links to many online resources on our website that will help you understand the science behind effective weight loss, how to do it safely, and most importantly, how to keep it off.

You will find plenty of interesting tips, advice, and information, from dieting tips to exercises, healthy eating tips to cutting bad habits.

A weight loss program is not about fad diets, gimmicks, weight loss pills, or grueling workout regimes, it is about eating better and being more active.

Read on below, and good luck with your weight loss journey.

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Food and exercise are part of your weight loss plan

Keys to a Successful Weight Loss Program

Caloric Deficit

There are many tips on weight loss, but the key tip is to create a caloric deficit (eat less, burn more energy, and make your body burn its fat stores).

Below is the energy balance of your body.

Energy intake = Energy consumed + Energy stored

Your goal is to eliminate the stored energy, to do so you there are several strategies.

  • Reduce energy intake so that it is smaller than the consumed energy (healthy diet plan).
  • Increase consumed energy beyond the energy intake (exercise and physical activity).

Both strategies will create a "gap" in your energy balance known as "Caloric Deficit".

This gap will be covered by using up the stored energy; your fat reserves.

The food you eat provides your body with energy. If you overeat or aren't active enough, your body will store the surplus energy as fat.

Fat builds up and adds pounds to your weight.

Therefore, you should implement real changes in your diet and level of physical activity to reduce caloric intake and increase energy expenditure.

Your body will not have any surplus energy to store as fat, and if you "burn" more than you eat, your body will have to consume its cache of stored fat.

Weight Loss requires that you change your current habits; you should modify your lifestyle.

Lifestyle changes for weight loss

  • Eat less.
  • Be more physically active.
  • Eat a balanced and healthy diet.
  • Aim at a sustainable goal of losing around 1 to 2 lb per week (0.5 to 1 kg).

Don't try fad diets, gimmick gadgets, or diet pills because they may have short-term effects, but if you stop using them you will revert to your "old" habits and regain the lost weight.

Six things you can do right now to lose weight

This is a shortlist with 6 Tips for weight loss:

  1. As a first step calculate your BMI (use our BMI - Body Mass Index Calculator), it will tell you where you stand today (a BMI over 25 means you are overweight). Set a weight goal for a BMI below or equal to 25 (Our tool lets you do this).
  2. Define your daily Diet Calorie requirements using Daily Diet Calorie Calculator, it will give you the value of your daily calorie intake for your diet based on your desired level of a caloric deficit.
  3. Rethink what you plan to eat for the rest of the day and cut down on alcohol, sugary drinks, processed foods, food with added sugar, and colas.
  4. Increase your physical activity: Get up and walk, take the stairs, do some gardening, get on your bike. In three words: be more active.
  5. Plan your weekly diet including a healthy breakfast each day (it will help you to lose weight).
  6. Start your Diet Diary: jot down your weight, your waist circumference, and everything you eat, you can calculate your calories for each meal and add them up to make sure you fulfill your daily calorie goal. It will motivate you to stick to your weight loss plan and track your goals.

Each of the pages we list below covers nutrition, weight loss, diet tips, and evidence on the science behind our advice, it will help you take informed decisions.

Resources on Diets and Weight Loss

Each of the following webpages has links to many resources covering nutrition, dieting, preparing and cooking healthy foods, balanced diets, and more! Enjoy.

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Drinking Water to Lose Weight

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About this Article

Tips for your Weight Loss Program, A. Whittall

©2018 Fit-and-Well.com, 12 Oct. 2023. Update scheduled for 12 Oct. 2025. https://www.fit-and-well.com/diet-food/weight-loss.html

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