Healthy Students on a Budget: Factors that control weight loss

Hello boys and girls, today is my favorite day of the week FRIDAY!!!!

Today's topic will be about factors that contribute into weight loss,

Calories  what is it?
Pretty much is the amount of energy that goes into your body to function.  Calories is made up of 3 things fat, carbs, and protein.  This is why a lot of diets will focus on taking out one of these things such as carbs.

Some things they don't tell you about carbs is there are two types

simple carbs  such as sugar, and complex such as pasta, or other grains.  With simple carbs, your body breaks it down faster, making you hungry sooner, compared to complex carbs where your body takes a lot longer to break down in your system, making you feeling full. 

In this Dr Pepper there is around 40 grams of sugar in this one can, meaning that all the calories your consuming is sugar.

This drink can be simply exchanged with water, and water has no calories, and it hydrates you. By replacing all your beverages with water you can actually lose weight.  If drink a glass of water to replace one pop can which is about 150 per can you can cut 1050 calories in 7 days which is half a days worth of calories. 

In time you can lose weight slowly.

Salt is another factor in losing weight, salt itself makes you thirsty.  When you are thirsty you want to drink something like a pop can, surprisingly enough pop has salt in it.  ITS CALLED SODIUM, another fun word for salt.

So think in the chain you eat something very salty like chicken wings, you have a coke as your drink,  you get thirsty and finish your beverage and now you want another one. Before you know it, you consume 450 calories.

I can go on about about other factors that help weight loss, but for now I will end it here, please comment and give feedback on certain topics.

Thanks guys
- Matt