FIRST STEP

You're goal.

Are you looking to lose lbs, inches or dress sizes? They're completely different things.

Body weight in mass take into account your water weight, muscle mass and amount of fat. Dress size could be considered as an easier, more general way to monitor your body fat percentage. Your inches are, well... your inches. You could calculate your dress size based on your measurements, but that varies from clothes brand to clothes brand.

You don't really need a goal. It, however, does make fat loss a lot easier because you know what you're aiming for.

I can't tell you what you goal is - it's up to you to decide. However, one thing I can say is that you can't change your body shape. That is totally determined by your genetics so there's no point in exercising for an hourglass when you're an apple shape. (There are things you can do such as corset training which you can do to get yourself a smaller waistline, but this takes money and time. The cheapest corset I've found is about £40. Not fun.)

Fat loss is EASY

What you need:
- Determination
- Self-control.

What you need to focus on:

calories in (diet) and calories out (calorie deficit + exercise).

It's that easy.

Diet is everything. Exercise speeds up the process, but DIET. IS. EVERYTHING.

Fat loss will not occur as efficiently as you want if you don't have a good diet. If you're thinking "okay I'll start eating sandwiches, some tuna pasta and drink a bit of orange juice", then you're off to a good start, but you've got a long way to go. (Well, tbh, it's as long as you make it.)

Calories in: Diet

The foods you eat are nowhere near as important as the amount of calories you eat.

To lose fat you need your body to use more energy (calories) than it takes in.

RDA says the average woman should consume 2000 calories a day. It is INCREDIBLY easy to eat more than this if you lack self-control, boredom eat, eat without realising you're eating, snack a lot between meals, eat larges, and so on and so forth. 

Don't consume 2000 calories if you're looking to lose the fat.

Calories out: Exercise

"Eat less, move more." I'm sure you've heard this phrase a million times before. I shall repeat it a million times more on this blog. =)

I can't deny it doesn't speak the truth. If you move more, you force your body to work harder, so your body has to use more energy, so in order for it to use energy it has to burn calories, thus there is caloric burn and when working in conjunction with a good diet you can lose fat.

Introduction

Let's lose fat!