Simple weight loss: cut caories

Weight loss can be confusing. What foods should you keep in your diet – should you eat bread, should you ban cheese because of its fat content?

However, as this article Counting calories: Getting back to weight-loss basics points out: “Your weight is a balancing act, but the equation is simple: If you eat more calories than you burn, you gain weight.

Because 3,500 calories equals about 1 pound of fat, you need to burn 3,500 calories more than you take in to lose 1 pound. So if you cut 500 calories from your typical diet each day, you’d lose approximately 1 pound a week (500 calories x 7 days = 3,500 calories).

Cutting calories doesn’t have to be difficult. In fact, it might be as simple as forgoing one extra item a day, swapping foods or trimming serving sizes. The number of calories you save is likely to translate into pounds lost.”

So it really doesn’t matter what diet you choose. You don’t need to follow any diets at all: you just need to eat fewer calories than those you expend. If you do that, you will lose weight.

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