Rapid Weight Loss Articles

If you want to really lose weight, you'll probably need to get a guide like Burn The Fat (see above). However, if you want some easy to follow advice right now, you can check out our articles below.

These articles are easy to read and can really help you when it comes to losing weight. Read through them - and more importantly, use the information they give you.

Putting Together A Weight Loss Plan

People try all kinds of fantastic methods to lose weight. They stop eating bread, they stop eating fat, they eat only grapefruit, or they eat only soup… So what works, and what doesn’t?

How Much Should You Eat, Anyway?

Even the rate at which you’ll lose weight is easy to calculate scientifically. You will lose approximately one pound for every 3500 calories you cut. So if you would like to lose a pound of weight a week, which is a reasonable goal for a diet, you need to eat 500 calories less than your body naturally burns per day.

Planning Your Meals

Now that you have a goal number of calories to eat per day, the next step is to decide how to distribute them throughout the day. If we are taking the 1300- calorie guideline from our earlier example, we could decide to distribute the daily calories like this:

Measuring Your Success

The only way to be sure that a diet is working, and that the basal metabolism rates that we are using to calculate our diet plan are correct, is to closely measure your success. This also has the effect of motivating you to continue to take your diet seriously.

Calorie Cutting Tips And Ideas Part 1

It is possible to lose weight and eat more healthily without feeling starved or deprived. In fact, taking care to eat meals that satisfy is a good way to ensure that you stay on track with your diet. Here are five tips to help make dieting more of a pleasure.

Calorie Cutting Tips And Ideas Part 2

In this article, we're going to continue some calorie cutting ideas that you can implement right away. Here are five more tips that anyone can use.

Pitfalls To Avoid

The theory behind losing weight is pretty easy, but nevertheless, many people are unable to successfully keep off the pounds. Here are some of the most common pitfalls that can ruin a diet plan, and some suggestions about how to cope with them.

The Importance Of Exercise

If you look at the weight loss equation (calories consumed – calories burned = net weight gain or loss) you can see that there are two ways to lose weight: decrease calories consumed, or increase calories burned. So far, we have spoken only of the first option, reducing calories consumed.

Staying Motivated When Losing Weight

Now you have the information that you need to get started on your weight loss plan. But reaching a healthy weight is a long-term goal, and it’s going to take time and motivation to get there. Here are some ideas to help you stay motivated and achieve your goals.