Diet and Exercise

How can we resist having a body like David Beckham’s or a jaw-dropping one like Scarlett Johansson’s? To have a healthy and well-shaped body is everyone’s dream. Both men and women surely want to have not just an appealing but also a healthy body. Having a healthy body does not only drop your dress size or make you more attractive, but also keep the doctor away. However, to lose weight is not as easy as falling of a log and certainly not an effortless activity. You have to live a healthy life by paying more attention to what you eat to lose some weights. In this article we are going to discuss the diet and exercise to have a well-shaped body.

Diet and Exercise: exercise keeps the doctor away!

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Diet and Exercise

The main rules of weight loss is the calorie you eat should be less than the calorie you burn. Of course, it only can be done by maintaining your diet and exercise. One of the most well-known ways to lose weight in a week is by burning 500 more calories than you eat every day for a week. By committing to that rule, you should lose 1-2 pounds a week. If you want to lose more than that, you will need to cut more calories from your diet and exercise more.

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People usually need to eat 1500-2000 calories per day. The daily calories your body need depend on several factors, such as age, height, weight and activity. If you are a lightly active twenty-something woman with 155 cm height and 50 kg weight, you will need to eat up to 1800 calories per day. The most important thing in weight loss is not to cut up calories too much. Yes, you need to limit the calories, but do not overdo it. If you want to cut calories up from the food you eat, you can’t reduce it way too far from 1500 or from the numbers you should eat. (You can check the daily calorie calculator here.) If you push yourself to eat very low calories per day, you will lack of energy and your body will automatically turn into starvation mode.

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Let say you are supposed to eat 1800 calories per day. If you want to lose one pound per week, you should eat 1300 calories per day or burn 500 calories per day. It goes with this explanation: one pound of body fat is equal to approximately 3500 calories. Decreasing up to 500 calories per day in seven straight days (500×7) means you throw away 3500 calories (or one pound) in a week.

In this diet and exercise article, we are also discussing how you manage your diet. According to webmd.com, you have to focus on vegetables, fruits, egg whites, soy-based foods, skinless poultry breasts and fish.  By keep putting those things mentioned recently on your plate, you will not only lose some weights but also give yourself a chance to live in a healthy body.

Diet and Exercise: vegetables are the one who you should befriend with.

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Now that we know the food we have to befriend with, let’s see what food we should say goodbye to. The number one food to be avoided is the sugary ones. Sugar undoubtedly brings a lot diseases. Another kind of food that you need to avoid is the fried ones. If you are now able to say no to those two kinds of food, you can reduce your weight easier and faster than those who still eat them. Another benefit of losing weight, according to realsimple.com, you will reduce the risk of diabetes almost 60% by removing five percent of your weight.

Diet and Exercise: junk food is a big NO.

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To lose weight faster, you have to maintain your diet and exercise. People often have no time to do exercises, but the good news is, you can do simple exercises which only need seven minutes of your time. It is called seven-minute workout which includes 12 exercise to be done in 30 seconds each. (Search 7-minute workout to see the picture.) The best time to do this exercise is in the morning right before you eat your breakfast. Doing this seven-minute workout, or any kind of exercise, in the morning will help your body release the human growth hormone which plays an important role in fat-burning and muscle shaping. The HGH can be released if you have not eat anything for 16 hours. If you skip your dinner and the last time you eat your snack is around 4 pm, then you can do the exercise at the next morning at 8 am, before you have your breakfast.

In the end, to lose some weights does not just make you look more appealing, but also lead you to a healthy life style. The most important thing to maintain your diet and exercise is discipline.

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