The 100 Calorie Diet

The 100 Calorie Diet:
No, I'm not suggesting you only eat 100 calories a day. First, calculate how many calories you need to consume to keep your current weight. Then, reduce that number by 100 calories to obtain your new calorie daily intake for weight loss. For example, if you must eat 2,000 calories a day to maintain your weight, eat 1900 calories a day to loss weight.

Expect Results:
Weight loss is all about the numbers. If you eat 100 calories less a day than you expend for an entire year, you will have eaten 36,500 calories less during that year (365 days times 100 calories). A pound of fat is 3,500 calories. A reduction of 100 calories in you diet equates to a loss of almost 10.5lbs of fat. If you're looking to just drop 5 lbs, then just reduce your recommended calorie intake by 50 calories. Attempting to lose more than 10 lbs in a year is doable, but the diet is likely to be unsustainable, read on...

Why This "Diet" Works:
Even though this technically a diet, I consider it more of a lifestyle change. If you want to loss weight, you have to change your eating habits over the course of a lifetime. Eating 300 to 400 less calories a day than your body needs to maintain it's weight is unsustainable. Even though you may see quick results, this style of eating cannot last a lifetime. Starving ones self is just not a practical way to lose weight. Most diets end before goals are reached. By reducing calorie intake by only 100 calories, the weight will come off in time. Patience is a virtue, especially with weight loss. If you start now, you can drop 6 lbs before summer 2010!