“How to Lose Weight: Tips and Tricks for Sustainable Weight Loss”

Eduard Poot

Yesterday, 19:00

I had been planning to lose some kilos for a while, but didn’t really put my money where my mouth was. Despite the fact that I did a lot of sports and ate reasonably healthy, I had developed a small belly in recent years. In a holiday photo last September, it was noticeable that that belly looked a lot thicker than expected. Of course you keep the stomach in and tense the muscles when you stand in front of the mirror. But on a spontaneous photo that someone else takes of you, you naturally get a more realistic image. An image that we try to prevent in the mirror.

So then I decided to lose weight, it was no longer procrastinating. I sometimes consciously lost weight for a period around the age of 25 and around the age of fourteen. At the age of 32 I was curious if it was still that easy. That turned out to be really not too bad, although I do gain weight more easily than, for example, ten years ago.

The trick sounds very simple, just eat less every day. Which in my case has been 2 to 3 sandwiches and on days when I don’t exercise also skip the bowl of cottage cheese. In the beginning this sometimes produces a gnawing feeling of hunger and then discipline is important. Hunger is a signal, but if our car gives a signal that the petrol is almost empty, you don’t have to refuel right away. Nobody likes the feeling of hunger, but it is of course a sign that your body is in a deficit, so you will burn fat. So basically a hunger is a good feeling, because your body is working on its doing.

A peanut butter sandwich has 342 calories. Burning a kilo of fat takes at least 7000 calories. So two peanut butter sandwiches every weekday (10 sandwiches x 342 calories is 3420) would save almost half a kilo per week, which is about two kilos per month. An egg here and there and fry cottage cheese less, or move more, which means burning even more fat.

Someone who is sporty will always burn calories extra easily due to their muscle mass, so by exercising normally, if you want to lose weight as a muscular person, you can lose weight more easily because the body already burns extra calories anyway.

So the diet is not that spectacular, but it is important to persevere. Eating less for a week alone will not make you slim right away, but it is necessary to keep this up to the ideal weight. After that it is of course again to see how much more you can eat. If you eat less five days a week, it’s not a big deal if you eat a little more at the weekend, as long as the average balance of the week remains in a calorie deficit, of course.