Figure-conscious people have learned to check the nutritional facts label before buying any food or beverage to monitor the calories that will enter their bodies. Calorie refers to the energy from foods and how much of this energy will be used by the body.

Inadequate supply of calories makes the body weak since there’s not enough energy source. On the other hand, excessive calories from too much eating or drinking don’t get burned and end up as stored body fat.  Controlling the amount of calories in the body is an effective way to  lose weight and keep it to the desired level. 

People’s caloric needs are different from each other. To know your body’s calorie needs, multiply your current or desired weight by 10 (female) or 11 (male). Researchers believed that average adults who want to maintain their present weight only needs between 1,500 and 2,000kcal (kilo calorie) only. Consuming additional 500 calories daily will just add additional body pound by the end of the week.

To avoid this, remember that the energy the body uses should always be greater than the body’s energy intake and not the other way around. Many often justify their food indulgence, telling themselves  they will burn these calories but end up not doing it at all. The result: belly fat.

Getting rid of body fat is no joke.  To lose one pound, you need to burn 3,500 calories! Seems like a  lot of work, right?

If you’re really determined, patient and disciplined, nothing’s impossible. Set your goal of trimming those fats and be motivated to achieve your target body weight. Here are few tips to help you with your quest to shed excess body fat.

1. Move around.  Calories burn fast when people engage in physical activities. Researchers found that doing some of these activities for 30 minutes help in dissolving body fat: walking 106-120 calories;  running 280-384 calories; swimming 311 calories; aerobics 198 calories; basketball 265 calories, and ballroom dancing 98 calories. Increasing your daily exercise will make you lose weight faster.

Also, researchers in Mayo Clinic found that fidgeting is also a fat burning activity as well as doing conscious activities like stretching your arms and getting up from your seat.

2. Be a conscious eater. Minimize your calorie intake especially if you have no plans of burning them. Foods and beverages have nutrition fact labels to monitor one’s daily calorie consumption. The US Food and Drug Administration recommended that food/beverages with 40kcal per serving are considered as low-calories, 100kcal per serving are moderate. Foods/beverages that are 400kcal per serving or more should be avoided since they’re considered as high-calorie foods that’ll surely give you additional pounds!

3. Eat in small proportions but never skip a meal. Starving one’s self will just make things worse since people will end up binge eating. But if you can’t resist food, you can eat in small proportions every 2-3 hours without getting worried of gaining extra pounds since the body’s metabolism works in order to digest and absorb food.  Energy is required to digest food.

4. Drink 8 glasses of cold water daily. Drinking cold water has been found to be a good calorie burner than room temperature water because the body burns more calories as it tries to warm the cold water to level it to the body temperature. A 2003 study published at “The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism” found that 40% of the metabolism boost was attributed to warming a 71.6 °F cold water to a 98.6 °C temperature. Further, they believed that consuming 2 liters of cold water daily can burn 95 calories a day.

The info below can be of use to everyone:

Wheatgrass Pure:  9.4 kcal per sachet

Wheatgrass with Honey: 78.8 kcal per sachet/serving

Bio Coffee: 77.6 kcal per sachet

Bio Soy Milk: 73.2 kcal per sachet

Whea-gee: 6.5 kcal per 3 tablets

RTD: 78 kcal per can