Calories in / calories out. The literal, simple science of weight loss – otherwise known as the law of thermodynamics.
The good news here is that if you can add and subtract you can lose weight! Woohoo.
Now, although I said it’s simple, I didn’t say it was easy. In fact, I’m betting many of you who are reading this might be thinking “that’s bull. I counted calories and it didn’t work!”.
Does booze make you fat? Survey says...YES. Did I just date myself with that reference? Hoping most of you got that. Ok, moving on. Yes. Alcohol is a major offender when it comes to weight loss and frankly imbibing too often is extremely detrimental to your health in general.
To maintain a healthy weight, the key is to burn all the calories per day that you consume. To lose weight, you need to burn more than you take in. It’s really that simple. Obviously, the quality of your food will dramatically impact your overall health in time, but fat is stored energy and losing weight in large part is a calories in, calories out equation. So, combined with a good exercise regimen, dropping pounds—or staying slim—depends on monitoring your calorie intake.
