Loosing weight

Loosing weight is very simple you need to burn more calories than you eat. These are very simple equations to calculate how much you are eating, just addition. You can calculate how much you burn resting, exercising or whatever. Then you want to make sure you eat less than that. Not too little though you only want a deficit of like 500 calories per day to loose a pound a week.

If you eat out it is easy (I eat out every lunch and cook dinner) because after doing these calculations it becomes clear how much a portion is supposed to be. Two additional tips, if you want something like a dessert eat it (just don’t eat a whole cake). Never let your self get hungry you will pig out.

Bulking up

If you are planning on adding muscle do that first. Eat a lot and lift weights. Once your muscles are there you will burn the fat in no time. Just sitting around with big muscles is equivalent to running (not really).

Exercise

It helps if you get excited about a sport like biking or running or soccer. Studies have shown for slimming down it is not intensity, but how long you do it. So a hard short run is not as good as a long jog. Unless of course you run really hard, growing your leg muscles (see bulking up).

You can make it as complicated as you wish, but this is the right way. No matter what Richard Simmons or that Atkins clown (who may be destroying people’s livers) says.