Are the terms weight loss and weight control the same? You may had experience that it’s difficult to maintain something when you are not in control of it. In the same way, you tend to lose weight or gain weight when you are not in control of it. So when you are in control of your weight, you would be able to maintain it more or less steady or gain or lose it as you will.
Majority of the over sixty-five percent of U.S adults being either obese or overweight often confuse weight control with weight loss. The confusion is worse refuted because the considerations by which you achieve weight control are the same as those by which you achieve weight loss.
A 5’ 4” tall American woman of healthy and medium build body would weigh about 125 lbs. She needs 1500 calories per day to maintain that weight especially if she is doing a little or no exercise. She will lose weight at the rate of about 1 lb per week if she were to follow some dietary restriction and reduce her calorie intake by 500 calories per day.
From our example above, if the woman were to start exercising for 3 days per week, she will be burning off about 200 calories per day more and to maintain the weight i.e. to control the weight in spite of starting on the exercise regimen she needs to eat 200 calories more per day.
Now as you see from that example, it is not difficult to choose your lifestyle and maintain a healthy weight gain or healthy weight loss. You choose the weight you want to scale at; that tells you how long you need to adjust your lifestyle to reach the target at the safe rate of 1-2 lbs. per week (of course, keeping in mind general health considerations).
Next, you have to determine what your present calorie intake is. There are so many websites that can help you find your actual intake by just feeding in the details of your diet. You know that one pound of body weight is equivalent to about 3500 calories. With that you can decide how much change you need to make in your calorie intake.
Choose any of the safe natural diet plans to implement the changes in diet required. Just remember this:
Less fat + less calories = lose weight;
More fat + more calories = gain weight!
By keeping in mind underlying concept, you can easily maintain the same weight even in face of changes in your activity levels, provided you are at a healthy comfortable weight. If you are increasing your activities (including exercise you may be doing) increase your calorie intake correspondingly or vice versa.
Just remember that the effects of calorie intake or burn out are on a cumulative basis. So for effective weight control you don’t need to strictly maintain a daily balance sheet!