Creating Weight Loss Meals!

Creating weight loss meals can help you reach your ideal weight in the fastest time possible.

Your first step should always be to calculate your total daily energy expenditure (TDEE). These are the calories that your body can burn during the day, where there will be no surplus to be converted to body fat.

This is also called your daily maintenance calorie intake. These are the calories that you must consume to maintain your current weight.

The next step will be to calculate the exact amount of calories that you are currently consuming. This is important so that you do not increase or decrease your daily calorie sharly.

Using a moderate approach will always produce the best results. This is done by simply taking the average amount of food you eat on a daily basis, and counting all the calories that are in that food.

You also have to count the calories in the beverages that you drink during the day, because many people forget about these calories and this leads to a calorie surplus at the end of the day.

THE CHOICES THAT YOU CAN MAKE

1) If you want to lose weight you have to lower your daily calorie intake slightly below your maintenance level. The best approach is to lower your daily calorie intake by 10%.

To lose weight you also have the possibility of leaving your maintenance level the same while increasing your aerobic activity.

2) If you want to maintain your current weight you continue to consume your daily maintenance calorie intake.

3) If for some reason you want to gain body weight, you must increase your daily calorie intake above your daily maintenance and use weight training to build up your muscle mass.

...otherwise the extra calories will be converted to body fat!

CALORIE INTAKE FOR WEIGHT LOSS MEALS

When your goal is weight loss the best place to start is by slowly reducing your daily calorie intake and slowly increase you activity level.

Reduce your daily maintenance calorie intake by 10% and then divide this number by the amount of meals that you will consume during the day.

For example if your maintenance daily calorie intake is 2000 calories per day, you would lower it by 200 calories, and would consume 1800 calories per day.

If you eat four average size meals each meal would be 450 calories. Every week as you do your weekly weight loss chart you will see the results that you are getting on a weekly basis.

It is also important to take into account the nutrient ratios that you will use to create your meals.

Without consuming moderate amounts of carbohydrates, proteins and dietary fats your organism will not get all the nutrients it needs to function properly.