When attempting to lose weight, many people cut out meals in the hope that it will decrease
the number of calories they take in.
There's now a movement to label foods with their equivalent amount of the exercise in minutes it would take to expend
the number of calories you take in from that food.
So if you are looking in the mirror and don't see any physical changes and your weighing scale still displays the same weight you might want to increase
the number of calories you take in to build muscle.
Most people who want to put on weight actually overestimate
the number of calories they take in on a given day or underestimate the number of calories they expend on an average day.
If you're cutting
the number of calories you take in, you're at risk of using that lean muscle tissue and losing some of the gains you've made.
To lose weight, you have to reduce
the number of calories taken in from food, increase the number of calories expended, or both.
Instead, it helps to reduce
the number of calories you take in.
Caloric balance refers to
the number of calories you take in compared to the number of calories you burn.
You are in caloric balance when, over time,
the number of calories you take in matches the number of calories you burn through metabolism and physical activity.
Regardless of how much you work out, if
the number of calories you take in is greater than the amount you burn, you'll still put on bodyfat.
Expend
the number of calories you take in.