Your body's like a car.

Okay there are tons of posts on here about eating all your calories or eating your exercise calories. Well let's pertend that every day you drive to work and your car takes exactly 3 gallons of gas. And you happen to live across the street from a gas station and put exactly 3 gallons of gas in everyday when you get home from work. This works great you use 3 gallons and you put 3 gallons in. You do this everyday.

Now one day you have to drive 2 extra blocks. Which your car is not use to doin and you didn't put any extra full in it so on your way home, 2 blocks from your house your car starts to sputter and a block away it dies, but your smart and you shift to neutral and coast into the station.

One morning you wake up and have a phone call, and you have to go see your mother and you are going to have to run your car twice as far as you usually do. You remember how it lost it's going power when you didn't put in extra gas. So you run over to the station and put twice as much gas as normal and you don't have any problems.

Now my question for you is if your body needs 1800 calories a day and you are already cutting them by 500 calories in order to loses weigh, why would you want to run your body short and not eat your exercise calories that your body needs. Like a car you body has to have a certain amount of calories to run like it's suppose to. And if you drastically cut yourself short your will metabolism will start to sputter and slow down. And eventually it will just coast along, but not go any where. If you really want to jump start your weight lose eat all of your calories. Exercise not to burn more calories to increase your weight loss but to make your body stronger and healthier, to strengthen your heart and lungs, to define and tone your muscles.

Be smart on your journey.