Changing your diet entirely and signing up for a gym—starting tomorrow, you swear—probably won't work. Wired's How-To Wiki runs some math on what it really takes to lose permanent weight. The numbers are actually, well, encouraging.
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Nobody eats the same exact diet every day, but most days meet up with a fairly consistent average. Stick to that diet as closely as possible, and then use the math that The Hacker's Diet author John Walker suggests:
- Multiply the pounds you want to lose by the number of calories in a pound of fat: 10 x 3,500 = 35,000.
- Divide the total by the days you'll diet: 35,000 ÷ 60 = 583.
- Eat that many fewer calories each day.
The wiki post suggests other methods of using specific measures and time limits to drop pounds. The backbone to all the advice is fairly simple: find a way to gradually kill calories from your diet, and keep them out.
Done any helpful math on your own diet lately? Share your success in the comments.
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