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So you ot drop 15 pounds before your sister's wedding this summer. Okay, fine, but please be smart about it. Your health comes first, before slimming your hips or losing a chin. It would really be a crying shame if you were to work so hard to drop a few pounds and you for sick, or you just gained the weight back when you returned to your "normal" diet. Subsisting on almonds and bottled water may help you lose weight, but it's obviously not sustainable as a lifestyle and it's good way to damage your health. Your body needs all three major categories to function, remember and good.

Here's the hard science: if you don't get enough calories, your body is going to bahave like it's starving - your metabolism goes into Neanderthal mode, assuming it must be winter and there won't be food until the first thaw, so it slows way down to conserve calories. It uses lean tissue and muscle as calories in order to conserve its fat stores so not only don't you lose weight, you do lose muscle. This is why you need to keep your calories at a normal level and be smart and patient if you want to lose weight. A safe plan to lose weight generally involves reducing your calories by no more than 350 to 500 a day and incrasing the amount of physical exercise at the same time.

Calories Are Not Out to Get You

As you learned in science class but may have chosen to forget, calories are not the demon spawn to fat but a measure of enegy content. When we eat foods that are high in calories but low in nutrients we're not getting benefit from the food. So basically while cake tastes good and you should have it and eat it, too, every now and again, it should be looked at as a "treat" because it's not supplying you with enough nutrients. In general, weneed to choose foods that are high in nutrients but low to moderate in energy content - colories. How much food you should eat is directly related to how active you are - the more you exercise, the more calories you need to fuel another lap around the track.

This is also the secret to maintaining a healthy weight, but for reasons much more crucial than fitting into a smaller size of jeans. The only way to lose a few pounds in a healthy, sustainable way is to eat fewer calories while increasing your physical activity. Remember: Calories takin in must equal calories expended or we gain weight. Simple.