Getting Fit

You have to create a deficit of 3,500 calories to drop a single pound - that means that you have to burn more calories via exercise or eliminate more calories from your daily diet.

If you're limiting calories and exercising daily, you should expect to lose about one percent of your body weight per week. Since that's not happening, try tracking your daily caloric intake. To maintain good health women should not cut calories below 1,200 per day. If you haven't been counting calories, you may be surprised at how many you can consume even when you're following a healthy diet.

To find out how many calories you need daily to maintain your present weight log onto http://www.caloriecontrol.com , click onto the weight maintenance calculator and enter your height, weight, age and activity level. The result you get will be the number of calories you need to maintain your current weight. To lose, you'll have to eliminate some by cutting back on food or increasing the intensity of your exercise. Since you're already walking an hour a day, you might try picking up your pace.

*This was from Dr. Weil's website and I just wanted to share because it is THE REAL way you lose weight.  There is no secret about weight loss.  You have to burn more than you take in.

For me, it says on sedentary or light activity I maintain my current weight at 1900-2000 calories.  So to lose a pound a week just by cutting food, I would eat 1400 calories a day.  Or I could burn some off with exercise also, say only cut my cals by 250 a day and then burn 250 in exercise and I would lose a pound a week.  That would mean I would eat around 1650 a day. 

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