Baptist Health Doctor's Corner: Tips For Losing Weight
By: Arkansas Today
Updated: January 17, 2013
Since this is still first of the year, people remain focused on their New Year's resolutions of weight loss and exercise.
The basic key to losing weight is to take in less
calories than you burn off
For heart health (and mental health) Dr. Holloway recommends to walk two miles five days a week.
However, an average 200-pound man will only lose about 1/3-1/2 pound/week with this walking program, unless he changes his eating habits.
One pound is equal to 3500 calories
Most dieters want to lose weight faster than one
pound per week.
In order to lose two pounds per week that 200-pound man
would have to walk for three hours a day seven days per week.
Thus, it would be much more feasible to also cut back on calories, as well.
Thus, it would be much more feasible to also cut back on calories, as well.
If he cut his calories by 800 cal/day, that program of 2
miles five day per week would result in 2 pounds weight
loss per week.
Dr.
Sue Hubbard is an award winning pediatrician and medical editor for
www.kidsdr.com. She is a native of Washington, D.C. who travelled south
to attend the University of Texas at Austin and never left. 
