The Calorie Threshold….
I want to talk about the Calorie threshold. It’s a fairly easy concept to grasp, but critical to sustained weight management.
The Calorie Threshold is the amount of food or calories you can consume in a day, and maintain your current weight. Even if you don’t know your personal calorie threshold, you probably have a fairly good idea whether you’ve exceeded it, met it, or come in below it, based soley on how you feel.
For example, you’ll have a day where you eat a couple of meals until your full (a no no) so you’ll gain a pound or two. You offset that with some days where you are very busy, with little time to eat, so you lose a couple of pounds. With these habits, your going to pretty much maintain your current weight. Or, lets say you have a great 4 days of dieting, but you take a break from the diet on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. You go out, have drinks, appetizers and entres, a little bit of fast food, and by the time the weekend is over, we’ve undone all of the hard work of the previous 4 days…….and we’re right back at square one.
Sustained weight loss is the result of consistently coming in UNDER the calorie threshold. This means behaving ourselves on the weekend….LOL…as hard as that is. And yes, it can be quite the task. We don’t have work and other duties to keep us busy. It’s us vs. the refrigerator all weekend long.
Coming in under the threshold means also that we are going to lose weight without a lot of strenuous exercise. YAY!! Obviously any sort of exercise promotes more weight loss, and at the very least, I advise walking 20 minutes a few times a week in conjunction with a below the threshold diet.
I guess this is where I will overstate the obvious.
1. Don’t eat until your full, eat until you aren’ t hungry anymore.
2. Place smaller portions on your plate. Some of us, have a tendency to eat everything on our place, so if less is there…….well, you get the point.
3. Be done eating (if possible) by 7:00 pm. Give yourself an opportunity to burn off a few of those calories before you go to sleep just by conducting your normal evening routing.
Good Luck to all. Success is yours. Own your body.
Aaron
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See, look at that! Another great blog. Now, my only thing is I have to eat a lot more like almost 2000 calories minimum because of all the exercise that I do.
But your blog does put a lot of my “calories” issue into perspective.
LOL I use my chopsticks at home because it slows my eating down.
And because I sleep around midnite every night - blame it on my honey, I eat my last meal at 9pm.
Well, if you ever do a blog about night time eating - I’ll be all over it. That is my last battle.
hey can you tell me a good website to go to that will tell me what my calorie intake should be to maintain my weight? also…they say you have to eat 1200 calories per day…to notgo into starvation mode or whatever….so does that mean that if i worked out and burned 400 calories that i would need to eat another 400 calories if my calorie intake was at 1200 before i worked out? do you know the answers to these questions? haha…i dunno