Eat Less Total Calories

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Eat Less Total Calories

Despite how complicated and confusing it all seems, there is literally only one thing you need to do to lose weight. Simply put, you just need to eat less total calories. That’s it.
No matter what you’ve heard or read or seen before, weight loss is and always will be about calories.
Sure, protein, fat, carbs, different types of foods, supplements, exercise and everything else plays a role to some degree. However, it’s all secondary to calories. This isn’t just an opinion or a guess or a fad… it’s a scientifically proven fact.
Eating less calories (therefore creating a caloric deficit) is the one and only requirement for losing weight. Got that? Good. No other weight loss tip matters if you fail to get this part right. Don’t ever forget that or let the other less important stuff get in your way of making this happen.

Why Are Calories The Key To Weight Loss?

Well, it works like this. There is a certain number of calories that you need to eat each day in order to maintain your current weight. This is known as your calorie maintenance level.
It’s the amount of calories your body burns each day through a combination of activity (walking, standing, moving, etc.) and keeping you alive and functioning (pumping blood, digesting food, breathing, etc.).
Why is this the most important aspect of how to lose weight? Simple…

• When you eat the same number of calories that you burn, your weight stays the same. This is your maintenance level.
• When you eat more calories than this amount, your body takes all of those left over calories that didn’t get burned and stores them all as body fat. This is how weight gain happens.
• However, if you eat less calories than this amount, something awesome happens. Your body realizes that it doesn’t have enough calories to burn for energy, so it burns your own stored body fat for energy instead. This is how weight loss happens.

So, losing weight is just a matter of consistently eating less calories than you burn. There’s honestly nothing more to it than that.
Which means, if you’re not losing weight now (or at any point in the future), you’re just eating too many calories. It’s not the type of foods, or the amount of carbs, or any other silly crap. It’s calories.

How Many Calories Should I Eat Per Day To Lose Weight?

This brings us to the most important question of all… how many calories do you need to eat per day to lose weight as fast as you realistically should? To answer this question, you just need to figure out what your calorie maintenance level is and then eat less than that amount each day.