In each little pound of fat contains 3500 fatty calories, and only 100 calories are burnt off in one little bead of sweat. Which isn’t as much as you’d think it would be. The average person who is only slightly out of shape can exercise for up to 30 minutes before they even start to sweat. A more physically fit person might be able to exercise for up to an hour before they start to sweat.
The key is to get your heart going, your muscles going and your sweat glands working! I know it might seem gross, but the whole idea is to sweat enough to burn off enough calories, to lose the lbs and reach your weight loss goals.
You’ll also want to watch your caloric intake, as it wouldn’t help to eat as much as you lose. Make sure to do some extra research and see what foods carry what kind of calories, and how many calories they hold. You’ll want to be careful, as their is more than one type of calorie, and not all of them are bad. Your goal is to rid yourself of Fatty Calories, and not necessarily the others as well. They will get burnt off in their own time when your body is done with them.
A good goal, is to try and eat no more than 5000 calories a day, and to burn at least 7000 calories a day, which is around 2 lbs per day. If you are more than 50 lbs over weight, this goal will be easy enough, as you will burn more weight the heavier you are. This is because the more weight you have to move, the harder your heart and muscles work to get the job done, and the more calories you burn.
If you can get yourself to sweat at least 70 drops of sweat, you will have burnt off 7000 calories. Just remember that your metabolism is different from every other person, and it might take you more or less time than another person to get your goal, or to burn fat.
Remember not to set your sights TOO high, as you don’t want to wear out your body and do the opposite of what you were trying for. 5000 calories a day may seem like a lot, but truthfully it isn’t. Did you know that one half of a cantelope contains up to 3000 calories? A salad can contain up to 1200 calories if it has chicken or another meat in it. Also make sure to balance your diet correctly with carbs and protein, otherwise your body will revert to storing extra fat because it’s not getting proper nutrients.
Following a plan that a Diabetic might follow is a really great strategy, as it limits carbs and sugars from your diet, as well as showing you how to balance your proteins and carbs together to get optimal nutrition. 5000 calories could be a bowl of cheerio’s in the morning, a salad for lunch and steak for dinner with some yogurt desert.
7000 calories might seem like a lot, but it really isnt, and it really depends on what you do, and how you do it. Running on a tread mill at jogging speed for an hour could do it for one person, while running for 30 minutes could do it for another person. Doing jumping jacks for 20 minutes might bring out 70 drops of sweat for one person, while it might take another person over an hour. Aerobic exercise tends to be the best type of activity, only because it is directly connected to getting your heart pumping and your muscles working.
You will want to be careful not to flat line in your work out however, because after just a few short weeks, your body can get used to the exercise you are doing. This means your heart and muscles don’t have to work as hard at what you are doing, which is great if you’re just training to run a marathon. For weight loss goals, you really need to keep a challenging and productive exercise regimine.
Change it up every time or every couple of weeks. If you do jogging/running for an hour or two every day, change it in a couple of weeks to doing jump rop/jumping jacks. Then after that do some step exercising or a dance work out. Not only will this keep you losing weight at a maximum speed, but it will keep you interested in the work out!
Remember also that there are plenty of exercise activities out there, you don’t have to stick to what the gym teacher taught you in school. Get a pair of roller blades and go skating, or put some air in those bike tires and attach a kiddie wagon to the back to go for a ride. Walk your dog, go swimming, or maybe try out a sports team. Any exercise that works your heart and muscles and challenges them in new ways, will keep you losing weight quickly.
Now, at the current rate of 70 drops of sweat and 7000 calories burnt per day, that should roughly equal 2 lbs per day. If you keep your routine challenging and keep from peaking, you could lose 14 lbs in two weeks, 30 lbs a month and so on. Just remember that your body is different from anyone else’s and you will need to adjust your diet and exercise to fit what your body will work with.
If you tend to retain weight, than you need to work out harder for longer each time. If you are not that much over weight, you need to do more strenous exercises to get your calorie burning into action.
The main idea is not to give up, and remember that just because you have lost weight, doesn’t mean you should stop exercising. The worst thing you can do for your body is to go back and forth, as it will not agree to lose weight with you every time. Instead, set a goal of the amount of weight you would like to lose, and then after that do some regular maintenance exercises to keep it off.
