Calorie counting may or may not be your thing, but this was a
huge education for me when I first started losing. Here's basically what I did- Start keeping track and write down
everything you eat. Fun? No. Effective? Yes. Once you start recording it, you can see where you can make changes. A 3500 calorie deficit equals 1 pound lost, so if you make a 500 calorie a day deficit, you will lose 1 pound a week, 1000 calorie a day deficit= 2 lbs/week, and so on. Google "active metabolic rate" to figure out how many calories your body uses to function during the day. Eating less than this and/or making your body burn more calories through exercise will create the calorie deficits that you want! Yes, there's math involved, but I was weirdly fascinated by totaling up my calorie deficits for the week, especially at first. It was satisfying to quantiify all the hard work I was doing. And, there was no guess work about why I was or wasn't losing. If I only lost 1 pound in a week, I usually knew exactly why. Anyway, that's how I went about creating a plan of attack, hopefully some of this is helpful! It seems labor-intensive at first I know, but once you learn how many calories are in the foods you usually eat, it gets much much easier. You are worth it to find the time and put in the work
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