How to Make an Eating Plan to Lose Weight ~ Weight Loss

Learning how to make an eating plan to lose weight is one of the first steps anybody that is serious about dieting should take. It is a part of the "Pre dieting" preparatory process before starting on a long, calorie restrictive time. The importance of preparation is very high. The more time you put into preparing your weight loss plan, the more likely you'll succeed.

Successful Fat Loss Is Dependent on Your Plan of Attack

Most people that decide their going to go on a diet do a few things...

They go to a book store and browse the diet books. They find a diet that seems easy but effective and purchase it. They read through the book and hopefully start putting the advise to use.They start eating less. Usually this means they begin to skip meals, something very BAD for those trying to lose fat effectively.They find the most popular diet they saw on TV and start using the exact tips given.

All of these options are NOT the best for using an eating plan to lose weight and the reason is because these plans don't cater to you and your specific body need. There are several necessities that you must use in preparing an eating plan to lose weight if you want to actually be successful.

Necessity Number 1 - Finding a Good Selection of Foods to Eat

I could teach you all the best and healthiest foods to eat in this, however, that is a whole new post in and of itself. Because of that, I am going to focus on the general idea of "finding good foods to eat". I recommend eating only healthy foods that are natural. The question is, which foods are these?

A good idea is to pick up a healthy diet book and look at their "do eat" foods and "do not eat" foods. This is a good way to begin. Print out this list and put it on your fridge and take it with you to the grocery store. You want to stick with this list and use these foods for your meals around 90% of the time.

Necessity Number 2- Calculate Your Calories Needed

Everybody has different caloric necessities on a daily basis. It is completely individualized based on a number of things such as:

How much you weighYour body fat percentageYour heightYour AgeYour Activity Level

There are a number of calorie calculators out there on the internet that you can start using right now to get a rough estimate of your calorie needs.

The next step is to subtract 500 calories from this and then divide that by however many meals you want to have in a day. In general, the more meals the better. What this will do is keep your metabolism speedy and burning calories on a constant basis.

I recommend picking between 4-6 meals a day. Divide that number by your calories needed and then save that number you get. This is how many calories you eat for every meal.

Planning Each Meal

The next step is planning each meal. What you are going to do for this eating plan to lose weight is decide what to eat for each meal to add up to the right amount of calories. Choose from the list of foods you have which foods to pick and then create meals that are of the right amount of calories.

This may take some time but it is worth it. It makes the dieting process much smoother and you won't have to be counting calories every time you eat. All the work will be done for you!

The best way to go about doing this is to plan more meals. Plan around 20 meals total that way you can mix up what you're going to eat for one meal and not have to eat the exact same foods each and every meal, day after day.

Using Only Healthy Foods and Not Counting Calories

Many people that hear about counting calories shy away because they think it takes too much time to do all the counting. The truth of the matter is that if you don't count your calories you are less likely to actually eat less and reach that optimal calorie number per day. You could end up spending a month on a diet and not lose anything because you shied away from counting. Which is the waste of time then?

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