{"id":1036,"date":"2009-11-30T20:50:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T01:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2014-08-27T08:46:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T13:46:04","slug":"eat-to-lose-10-steps-to-start-shedding-the-pounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/eat-to-lose-10-steps-to-start-shedding-the-pounds\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Steps to Start Shedding the Pounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ten<\/a><\/p>\n

Losing weight is frustrating. You\u2019re hungry all the time. You even dream about food. Until that chocolate cake is yours, you simply can\u2019t rest. Then once you\u2019ve eaten it, you feel doomed. Will you always be tormented and overweight?<\/p>\n

Not necessarily. Researchers are learning that eating too much has little to do with lack of will power. We\u2019re wired to eat\u00a0as much as\u00a0we can when food is available and to under eat when it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

Trouble is, we\u2019re not living in caves anymore,\u00a0and our body’s\u00a0conditioning hasn\u2019t caught up to the fact that food\u00a0is\u00a0now available 24\/7.<\/p>\n

In fact, the mere sight and smell of our favorite dishes sets off brain signals that make passing them up unbearable.<\/em><\/p>\n

Steps to Weight-Loss Success.<\/h2>\n

10 Steps to Losing Weight:<\/h3>\n

1. First Take control of your body, decided that you are going to start taking the steps to losing weight and getting healthy. \u00a0And creating a weight loss plan and documenting your results is essential to achieving your weight loss goals<\/a>. \u00a0yYou can create your weight loss plan according to your diet and fitness goals.<\/p>\n

2. Find out your required daily calorie intake<\/a>, this is the number of calories your body needs to maintain your current weight. So in order to starting losing weight you need to reduce your calorie intake<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0To start losing weight you have to reduce the number of calories from your determined daily calorie intake. If you click on here in #2, you will find a daily calorie calculator, this calculator will also calculate the number of calories you can have daily to start losing weight, so use the link above to start your weight loss program .<\/p>\n

4. \u00a0Your activity level is also a factor when determining your required daily calories to start losing weight, the calorie calculator will ask you to choose your current level of activity, but remember that if you increase your activity level for example from light to moderate you will need to recalculate your require daily calorie intake because you want to make sure you are consuming the right number of calorie so your bodies\u00a0metabolism doesn’t drop.<\/p>\n

5. For example, if you currently weigh 150 pounds, 35 years old, 5 ft. 4 inches, light exercise, female, and your goal is to lose weight then your determined daily calorie intake to start losing weight is 1593. Reducing your calorie intake to 1593 will result is about 1 pound of weight loss a week.<\/p>\n

6. If one pound is too much, start off by cutting a few calories, a half a pound, and remember that as you increase your activity, you will also increase your calorie intake allowing you to have more calories per day.Do you have a question?\u00a0contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n

7. Here are some recommendations to help you cut those daily calories and lose weight, start out by cutting out high sugar flavored drinks (i.e. soda, flavored waters with high fructose corn syrup, high sugar juices).\u00a0Depending on many liquid drinks you consume daily, cutting out high sugar drinks could save you a lot of calories, (one soda equals = 250 empty calories), so start by righting down the liquid drinks you consumer daily.<\/p>\n

8. Add up these empty sugar flavored calorie drinks you consume daily, write the total calories, and cut these calories out of your daily calorie intake, and you will start to lose weight.<\/p>\n

9. Great low calorie substitute \u201cDelicious Chocolate Banana Shake\u201d only 120 calories.<\/p>\n

10. Sign up, add your email address and get more updates here to continue to\u00a0shed the pounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Losing weight is frustrating. You\u2019re hungry all the time. You even dream about food. Until that chocolate cake is yours, you simply can\u2019t rest. Then once you\u2019ve eaten it, you feel doomed. Will you always be tormented and overweight? Not necessarily. Researchers are learning that eating too much has little to do with lack of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[448,578,144],"tags":[661,235,175],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-menu","category-diet-plans-2","category-diet-tools","tag-10-steps-to-weight-loss","tag-losing-weight","tag-weight-loss-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shrinkingtheplanet.com\/weighless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}