Weight Loss Tip #1 – Burn more calories than you eat

Understanding calories should be your first step towards losing weight. In simple terms, calories are a unit of energy. The reason you need food is because your body requires these calories in order to function.

A lot of people tend to consume a lot more calories than what is required. Add to that, they do not exercise which lowers their metabolism making them store the energy in the form of fat. If you want to lose weight, you need to make sure that these fat deposits deplete and the only way to do that is – to burn more calories than you consume!

A single hour of running at a brisk pace of 5 km/h burns just 145 calories, whereas a single McVeggie Burger contains 465 calories. That will give you an idea of how much ruin you’ve caused to your body by eating junk food over the years. However, all is not lost and you can still lose weight provided you stay away from high calorie foods like burgers and pizzas. Also, you can eat foods like cucumber and watermelon which have extremely low calories (a single cucumber has just 39 calories and is high in nutrients), and do a range of exercises that’ll make you burn fat.

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