Health and Fitness

  How to lose weight in a healthy way is a million dollar question. Well.. Crash diets… burning yourself in Gym or on a treadmill… skipping meals and instead having black coffee… can these help? All these are absolutely un-healthy, unsustainable and injurious to health. Remember the statutory warning ‘Doing these for weight loss is severely injurious to health’. Then what is the way out? Healthy calorie deficit and active lifestyle is the only way to shed extra weight from your body. Naturally you would want to know what healthy calorie deficit is. Body needs energy as fuel, protein for building muscles, tissues and organ and micro-nutrients (Vitamins +mineral) for various vital functions. Carbohydrate and fat in food is the main source of fuel in the body. However extra fuel consumed (read food consumed more than required) is stored as fat in the body. If you are obese or over weight that means after years of hard work (extra calorie consumed by way of more than required intak...

Have you ever wondered; 1) how many calories do you need?  2) how many you are eating?  3) What is the consequence of eating extra calorie?  4) How many extra will make you 1 KG fat.  Just to give you a heads up each 7700 extra calorie makes you 1 kg heavier...! Well... your daily calorie need depends on the metabolism of your body. Metabolism is the pace at which your body consumes energy. You can compare it to mileage of a car. Some cars run 10 miles per litre while some runs at 20 miles per litre. It depends on the size of the engine. Similarly, metabolism of your body depends on size of your body apart from other factors (like exercise, drinking enough water, proper rest etc) through which you can boost it. Taller you are, higher would be your metabolism. Typically, 6 feet tall and 82 kg weight person will have 1800-2000 calories of resting metabolism (energy required in state of rest). Further for physical activity another 200 calories are required which can be ...