ANNIE DEADMAN IS HERE TO HELP YOU, THE EASY WAY!
Yes, a body (is) made in the kitchen!
You may have started 2024 with a brilliant exercise routine, but what if no matter how hard you sweat, run, dance, squat, jump or lunge, you’re still not getting the fat-loss results you want? The truth is you won’t, unless you make changes to your food intake. This rule applies to me, your neighbour, to everyone.
You can only lose fat if you are in a calorie deficit – type that in big red capital letters, print it out and stick it on your fridge. Yes, I know you’re probably bored of the phrase, but I’m going to bang on and on about it all year in this column. A calorie deficit is achieved mostly (about 80% actually) by eating properly and is only 20% influenced by exercise. Much of the world thinks it’s the other way round. There’s the belief that we can exercise our way into smaller clothes because we’re ‘burning calories’. Let me explain.
A good start for fat-loss is to create a deficit of 500 calories per day. That’s 3,500 per week. If you did that just by exercise alone, you would need to run for roughly 45 minutes without stopping. Every single day. That’s very tough, demotivating and would likely lead to injury. However, if you cut down your food consumption by 350 calories a day and exercised to burn off 150 calories, then you would achieve that deficit in a much kinder and healthier way.
The changes don’t have to be radical. Just look at the size of the meals you eat now ��
