If you had a fine car, you wouldn't put dirty or poor fuel into it. Our bodies are the same way. We need to treat our bodies as well as we treat our cars, trucks, and other possessions.
A healthy weight is different for everyone, depending on their height, gender, and body composition. Two people may weigh the same, but one may have a healthy weight and one doesn't. BMI tries to be a little more accurate measure, but it still misclassifies people. But at KOKO, we use body composition analysis to determine the percentage of your body that is fat and the percentage that is muscle. This is the most accurate way to determine your healthy weight and body composition.
Our weight depends on a combination of our heredity and our environment. There's not much we can do about our heredity, but paying attention to what, and how much, we eat, along with how much physical activity we get, will have a big impact on our weight.
Ultimately, maintaining a healthy weight is about changing our lifestyle: our eating and our physical activity. While there are drugs that can help us lose weight, if we don't change our lifestyle, we'll regain the weight as soon as we stop taking them.
As we have seen, two people can be the same weight, but one person can have an unhealthy amount of fat while the other person doesn't. The BMI tries to give a little better definition of whether the body is a healthy weight or not, but it's also not very accurate. Body composition is the best way to determine our body's nutritional health. Body composition allows us to know exactly how much muscle and how much fat is in our bodies. Our goal is to lose fat while maintaining or even building muscle. KOKO uses the most up to date instrument for determining body composition.
There are five easy first steps to take to lose weight before even changing your diet:
1) Stop drinking empty calories in fruit juices, soda, smoothies, and alcohol. Lots of calories hidden in these drinks that aren't doing you any good.
2) Find the time of day when you tend to overeat and focus on reducing your eating then. Change that one thing instead of trying to change everything.
3) Portion control. Our plates are usually too big, and we put too much food on them. Try eating off a 9 inch plate instead of a 12 inch one. Stop eating when you're 80% full.
4) Set realistic weight loss goals. 1-2 pounds per week is ideal. Crash dieting is not.
5) Focus on gaining muscle, not just losing weight. Exercise, particularly lifting weights and doing more walking than sitting, is important to healthy weight loss.
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