Education » Nutrition » Losing Weight - Getting Started!

As a personal trainer and a fitness enthusiast who works out 5 times a week people always ask me questions related to nutrition, exercise, and supplements.  The most popular question has to be:

“What is the quickest way to lose weight?”

With the first newsletter from TeachMeFitness.com , we will take step #1 to answering that common question.  In the coming weeks we will build on the basics covered in this article.

First, it is important to understand supplements alone will not meaningfully make you lose weight.  You need the combination of a Nutritious Diet , a well devised Exercise Plan and the Right Supplements to allow your body to perform at its peak level in order to achieve your fitness goals. 

                  NUTRITION                                         EXERCISE                                      SUPPLEMENTS

This weeks edition of TeachMeFitness.com newsletter will cover the basics of Nutrition that will help you formulate a well planned diet to help you lose weight.

Losing weight is simple math.  Think of food as the fuel your body needs to operate on daily basis.  Similarly, then think of your body as a machine that needs that fuel to function properly.  The more active you are, the more fuel your body needs.  The problem most of us face is that we are providing too much fuel to a body that doesn't really need that much.  In these cases our bodies tend to store that extra fuel as fat. 

So how much fuel do our bodies really need? 

Well that really depends on your age, gender and activity level.  To make things easy, TeachMeFitness.com has provided a proprietary Free Fitness Analysis Tool which will take these factors into consideration and give you an estimate as to how many calories your particular body should consume on a daily basis.  It will also tell you how many calories to consume daily if your goal is to drop 1lb per week.

Another and more accurate way to calculate this is to study your weekly caloric intake by writing down everything you eat on a daily basis.  Everything you eat should have the number of calories associated with it.  Now if you were to add up how many calories you consumed per day my guess is that on a daily basis it’s roughly about the same.  Find your average caloric consumption per day of that week (see example in fig. 1).  In the example below my average is 2000 calories per day.

FIG 1

Assuming that your weight is steady planning a nutritious diet that will help you lose 1lb per week you must reduce your average caloric intake by 500 calories.  Therefore, in my example above my average calorie intake per day should be 1500 and not 2000 if I want to lose 1lb per week. 

Coming soon ... Planning your Meals to Lose Weight.

Nutrition Products on Sale

Take an Extra 10% Off! 

                  Food Scale                                    Eating for Life Book                     Zone Perfect Meals

Coupon Code:  nutrition1                       Coupon Code: nutrition2                  Coupon Code: nutrition3 

Copyright © 2008 TeachMeFitness.com. All rights reserved.