You're doing your best to lose weight by watching what you eat and reducing portions, but the pounds continue to pile on. Decreasing your calories doesn't bring about weight loss unless you're consuming fewer calories than you burn daily.
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Most weight gain in adulthood results when you consistently consume more calories than you burn. Even 100 extra calories per day can lead to a 10-pound increase in weight over the course of a year. Where you store that fat depends on your genetic body type, which is usually dictated by your gender and hormones.
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Moving more and eating less leads to weight loss, as long as you keep your calorie intake at a negative balance. A 1,200-calorie-per-day diet creates a caloric deficit for most people, but how much that deficit equals depends on the person.
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Increasing your caloric intake helps you gain weight. To help you put on quality pounds in the form of lean muscle, make the calories come from healthy sources. If you're underweight because of injury, surgery or illness, adding nutrient-rich calories will help you heal.
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Weight gain can help improve your performance in certain sports or fill you out so your physique matches that of other guys at school. Take in more calories than you burn daily to put on pounds -- but not just any calories.
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Most female athletes carry between 8 and 15 percent fat, but swimmers usually have a bit more -- between 14 and 24 percent. While any body fat percentage below 30 is perfectly healthy for a woman, it's expected that competitive athletes be among the leanest and sleekest people around.
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No supplement, vitamin or food can actually burn fat from your body. Fat loss happens when you have an energy deficit caused by eating fewer calories than you burn. In some cases, a vitamin deficiency can make you feel sluggish and cause an uptick in hunger-causing hormones, making you gain weight.
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Fat around the back of your waist is affectionately known as your spare tire or on the sides, as love handles. The only way to get rid of this fat is to double down on your efforts to eat right and exercise. Portion control, reduced intake of certain foods and being physically active are key strategies to losing fat.
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A physically active lifestyle may extend your life and reduce your risk of developing heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, depression and some cancers. In addition to improving health, physical exercise helps you lose unsightly and unhealthy belly fat.
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To get a defined, enviable physique, a man needs to lose body fat -- not just overall weight. Having too much body fat puts you at risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, while shedding fat can help you feel healthier, fitter and more energized.
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Body composition is a better measure of your body's health than weight alone. You may be a normal weight for your height but carrying too many of those pounds in the form of fat, and having too much fat puts you at risk for chronic disease.
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An active lifestyle helps you gain weight by stoking your appetite and building muscle. Resistance training is especially important in helping you to put on lean mass, which is a far healthier way to gain weight than adding just fat.
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The Master Cleanse, also known as the lemonade diet, is an extreme dietary cleanse, which has you consume a concoction of lemon juice, cayenne pepper, maple syrup and water for at least 10 days. You also conduct a nightly saltwater flush and take a laxative tea.
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Reality weight-loss television shows lead you to believe that dropping 60 pounds in four months is a doable goal. Unless you have a massive amount of weight to lose, though, a 60-pound loss isn't a safe goal to achieve in a scant 16-week period.
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Standard lunch fare is often loaded with carbohydrates -- tacos, sandwiches, creamy soups, pizza and pasta salads contain grains, potatoes, milk and sugar that raise your intake of this macronutrient.
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A month gives you plenty of time to lose 5 pounds without extreme deprivation or hours of exercise. A moderate calorie deficit, reasonable amounts of physical activity and some lifestyle adjustments help you achieve your goal and sustain your new body size.
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Even when formal muscle-building exercise isn't an option, making quality dietary choices to gain weight will improve your appearance and function.
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Magnesium is an essential mineral that plays a role in more than 300 functions in your body, many related to the way you metabolize energy. As a mineral, it has no calories and can't directly cause you to gain weight.
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Daily fluctuations in your weight on the scale are completely normal. What you ate, your hormones, how hard you worked out, your hydration levels -- all influence what the number reveals. Your weight can fluctuate by as much as five pounds in either direction from one day to the next.
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Available in health food stores and online, Kombucha tea boasts many health benefits—one of which being weight loss. No major medical research supports this claim, but proponents of the drink promise that it will help regulate your natural systems and lead to better health.
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