It's a numbers game

There’s no secret.  Promise.  If there was, I would've found it by now, guaranteed!

There’s no secret to losing weight. There’s no special pill, or magical powder, that will do it for you either.

Weight loss can be summarized simply – calories in vs. calories out.

Yeah, I’m sure you’ve heard that before, but what does it mean? How do you do it? Let’s break it down, shall we:

First off, you need to know that you don’t gain weight spontaneously. Weight is gained when you consume more calories than you burn. Ok, so if we gain weight when we consume more calories than we burn, that means that if we burn more calories than we consume, then we’ll lose weight? You’ve got it!

(there’s a detailed science behind this, but we’re going to follow the KISS method and Keep It Simple, Silly!)

Here’s a side note: when the calories you consume equals the calories you burn, your weight remains the same. So, simply put, in order to lose weight, you need to create a calorie deficit.

The bottom line?

It’s not WHAT you eat. It’s HOW MUCH you eat and HOW much you burn that determines whether or not you lose weight.

Let’s go into this in a little more detail…

A pound of body weight from fat contains 3,500 calories. If you wanted to lose a pound of fat a week, you’d divide this number by 7 and would get 500. Therefore, on average, you would need to burn 500 more calories, a day, than you consume making your daily target deficit 500 calories. If you wanted to lose 2 pounds of fat a week, you would need to create a 1000 calorie deficit a day, or on average. *It is not recommended to lose more than 2 pounds a week.

Low Carb, No Carb, Low Fat, No Fat, the Grapefruit Diet, the Cabbage Diet…none of these will provide true, honest, long term, lasting results for you. Again, there’s no secret to weight loss – it’s a numbers game, and once you understand how the numbers work, you'll be a head of the game!