We all think we can lose those stubborn 10 or 20 pounds very quickly if we just starve ourselves for a few days. Even though it has taken years to put on the weight, you want it off now. We must be realistic about the time we need to do it in a healthy way. If you approach weight loss the right way, not only are you going to lose weight fast, you will keep it off.

Fast is a strange term. It means moving rapidly along a path that leads to somewhere, not an immediate arrival, but steady and sure. Immediate and unrestricted weight loss can harm your health. Go ahead cautiously and rapidly.

Begin at the beginning. Ask yourself the important questions and use a journal to keep track of your answers and future progress. On day one, enter your morning weight (before dressing or taking your breakfast) and your height. By checking one of the many BMR (basal metabolism rate) charts you will be able to determine how many calories your body needs to maintain. Of course, you will not want to maintain, but to lose weight. Ask your doctor what he thinks of your plan and how he may be able to give you some tips.

Everyone forgets the little nibbles or taste tests that takes place everyday. That little extra pat of butter on a small piece of bread consumed as we wait for the grilled cheese to brown or that extra mayo on the sandwich just escapes your memory. Discipline yourself to keep an accurate account of every morsel. All those calories count and must be put in your journal. Silly? Not really, because you are doing fast weight loss by the numbers and every calorie counts.

There is an unofficial way to find out how many calories you need to maintain your bodyweight. Usually you can use you bodyweight in pounds and multiply it by 12. For instance, 140 pound person would be 140 x 12 = 1680 calories. Generally, this would be the amount of calories it would take to maintain the current bodyweight.

By knowing this number, you can substract for example, 250 calories a day and lose half pound a week. This is only if you just cut out a few hundred calories a day. Remember that a pound has 3500 calories and that’s why it’s only half pound.

If you increase your activity to include walking or jogging, you will burn more calories. By burning 500 calories per workout, 5 days a week, that’s another 2500 calories. This totals 4250 calories off per week. That’s an easy way to lose weight fast.

The more calories you burn the less goes into fat storage. Losing weight fast by using this simple math formula is really a great way to understand where your calories go. Make them go into energy and keep it simple.

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