Controlled appetite is not the only thing that you should consider in losing weight. Above anything else, you should consider losing weight through the calorie intake in our body. After all, it all goes down to the ability to control the intake of calories in our body. We have to make sure we have enough calories in our body to give us energy but not too much as to let us gain some weight. Because of the development of the study of weight loss, you will now be able to calculate the number of calories that you need and the number of calories that you can get from your body. It used be very simple: to lose weight, you only need at least 12-13 calories a day per pound of body weight, to maintain your weight is to have 15-16 calories and to gain weight is 18-19 calories. However it has gone a long way and there are now complicated formulas to determine how many calories we need a day.

The known formulas are: Harris Benedict formula, Katch- McArdle formula and formula based on BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate). You can find the formulas and explanation on the internet and there are numbers that correspond for male and female.

Whatever the formula is, the first thing you need to know is to follow them religiously and to adjust them according to what you need. If you wanted to lose some weight, you have to create a negative calorie effect in your body. There should be a deficiency from what you intake and from what you lose by creating a deficiency, you lose some weight in the process. But if you want to gain weight, you have to make sure you get enough calories but not too much. Weight gain should be controlled and exercise is a must to develop them into something even better.

Once you have calculated the required number of calories that you should shed, don’t just jump in to the program. Our body should be slowly introduced to the program that we want. Getting calories off our body drastically will reduce the energy of our body. With less energy, we will not be able to answer all the need to exercise. Instead of weight loss through exercise you lose some weight through the bad things that happen in your body. Eventually it could be really fatal if we don’t check them quickly.

Make use of the formula and use them to your advantage slowly to get the best body that you can muster.