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It would be difficult to overemphasize how much strength training will help you. I believe one pound of muscle requires 10 calories per day at rest while fat requires much less. So, if you gain an additional 10 lbs of muscle, you will burn around 100 calories per day which, in turn, will burn just under 1 lb of fat per…
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Good luck with your fitness goals. I know a lot of people for whom their problem with eating is emotional in nature. It's probably the most difficult barrier to weight loss. The one thing that has helped me is to simply remember that food is fuel. Eat no more than you need to get to the next meal and the pounds will come…
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I think there is some confusion over what the basal metabolic rate (BMR) is. BMR actually refers to the number of Calories you will burn lying in bed all day. This is what it means to be truly sedentary. If your BMR is 1,300 Calories but the actual Calories burned by the average woman is estimated to be 2,000 because she…
