Looking for a low calorie diet plan?

When trying to lose weight, many people first seek out a low calorie diet plan. And of course, this makes perfect sense since everyone knows consuming excess calories will only add to their waistline or backside.

The idea behind the low calorie diet plan is quite simple. The calories that a person consumes provide fuel for the body. If a person is consuming more calories than their body actually burns, the excess is stored in the form of fat.

This stored fat is supposed to help us through times of famine when food isn't so readily available. Problem is, in today’s society, there is always an excess of food so we continually store more and more fat away.

The solution....restrict those calories. But, how do you know how many calories you should cut back?

The first step in a low calorie diet plan is to pin down the actual number of calories you need to maintain your current weight, or BMR (Basil Metabolic Rate). A simple BMR Calculator can help you with this.

An inactive woman usually requires about 1500 to 1800 calories while an inactive man typically requires around 2000 to 2200 calories each day. If you are active, you may require an additional 600 to 800 calories to get you through the day.

Next, you need to identify how many calories you should be consuming each day. One factor that will determine this number is how fast you want to lose the extra weight.

In order to burn or lose 1 pound, you need to burn 3,500 more calories than you take in. This means you need to burn 500 more calories than you eat, each day, in order to lose 1 pound in a week. To lose 2 pounds per week, you need to burn 1,000 more calories than you take in each day.

Losing 1 to 2 pounds per week is generally considered a safe rate of weight loss. This can be achieved by eating less calories or exercising to burn more calories. A combination of the two will give you the best results.

For a very low calorie diet plan, I recommend checking out the Medifast Diet Review. This is a proven low calorie diet plan that is clinically proven and time tested, as it was developed over 25 years ago.

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