Monthly Archives: March 2011

We all know the keys to a healthy lifestyle: consume a well balanced whole foods diet, exercise regularly, and get plenty of rest and relaxation. However, many individuals fail to focus on regularly performing an exercise program and making workout consistency part of their daily lifestyle.

We have all heard a variety of reasons and excuses that most individuals tend to give after failing to regularly perform some form of exercise or physical activity, “I am just too busy”, “I get bored performing the same exercise routine over and over”, “I just don’t have time”, or “I have too much work to do”.

While many of these excuses may be valid, ultimately it is up to the individual to set aside time to make their physical exercise routine a part of their daily lifestyle.

In reality, safe and effective weight loss tips can actually be broken down into a few simple concepts that require a little discipline, common sense, and a couple of modifications to one’s daily lifestyle.

At it’s most basic level, weight gain can can be attributed to storing more calories, on a daily basis, than the body consumes, or “burns”, during that same time period. In other words, if an individual consumes 3,000 calories per day and their body only burns 2,000 calories then their body will store 1,000 calories of fat. While this may be a simplistic definition, it is ultimately true.

Each individual has what is defined as a Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). The BRM represents the average number of calories that an individual’s body burns on a daily basis. If an individual consumes more calories than their BMR then the additional calories will be stored by the body as fat.