What are “calories”?

ction in the body. You need calories for energy to do any kind of atheletic sports, activities, etc. Anything in your life that’s an activity, you need calories for. The challenge for most people today is that they’re eating so much more than they require. For example, 3500 calories make a pound of fat, or a pound of weight. If you’re getting too many calories in the food you are eating, you’re going to gain weight. It’s automatic that if you need to lose weight, you need to cut calories. I know there’s a lot of fad diets around that don’t talk about calories, but the fact is when it comes down to the nitty gritty of the whole thing, it’s the number of calories you take in and the number of calories you burn – through metabolic activity, or what the body is doing and working on, or through activities that you do in your life. We often see people who go on a diet, and they don’t really lose much weight because they’re only cutting down their calories and not actually increasing their activity. The two things together will increase your ability to lose weight faster. The other point is that lean muscle tissue is very active tissue and it will actually burn calories faster.

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