Good morning...hope all of your Halloween events were fun and safe...
In our weight loss program, we do not have patients count calories, but rather, portions of the different food groups. This strategy results in aggressive weight loss when followed. However, this morning I want to focus on calorie counts.
3500 calories equals a pound. When you burn off this amount of calories, you will lose a pound. Everyday life activities such as walking, breathing , etc burns off calories.
However, aggressive exercise will burn off more...and just think about this...burn off 100 more calories a day (this takes about 20 minutes on a treadmill at 4.0 MPH) and this is 36500 calories a year (10 pounds) and if you ate 100 less calories a day (this is avoiding very little) this simlarly would result in 10 pounds of weight loss per year. These are MINIMAL interventions that in aggregare, would result in lots of weight loss.
Keep track of the amount of calories you are consumming (after the program visits are finished) as well as the amount you are burning off and work diligently on both ends of the equation!
Giants will prevail today!!!! GO G-MEN!!!
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When we exit the program are we given a maintenance target for calories? I would find that helpful.
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