LOSING WEIGHT

It’s Easier To Not Consume Calories Rather Than To Burn Them

After all, prevention is better than cure, no?

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Growing up, I was blessed with very high metabolism. Add in the fact that I was also very active in sports, it was a successful recipe for never gaining weight and enjoying any food I wanted to eat.

Then my mid twenties came and it came with a vengeance.

It was also when work started to catch up on me and I could no longer be as active in sports as I were previously.

Needless to say, the weight started to gain a stronghold on me and before I knew it, I started gaining weight like never before.

I put this down to three reasons:

• I was not as physically active as I was in my teens and early twenties
• I was still eating like I did in my teens and early twenties
• My metabolism was slowing down as I aged (something that we can’t stop, but it is something we can still influence)

And before I knew it, it was 20 years since I was last at my ideal weight (between 65kg to 68kg — that’s around 150lbs), until I started changing one thing — how I view my calories intake.