By Sherali S. Bharwani

You have tried everything from very common to very strange and sometimes downright crazy. Restricted foods, unbalanced diets, strenuous exercise are just a few to mention. But no matter what you do, your excess fat keeps coming back.

Everyone knows what to do but nobody really knows. Everyone has heard how to keep fat off. “Eat sensibly and exercise”.
But, few people manage to do it.

That’s because no matter how much advice they have heard, and no matter how motivated they are to succeed, most people still don’t know the #1 secret to keeping off weight. What is that #1 tip?

The #1 tip to keeping off weight is maintaining an ‘Energy Balance’. Your energy balance is simply the balance between how many calories your body absorbs and burns. Absorb more calories than you burn, and you gain fat.

No matter what you eat or how much you eat, and no matter how active or inactive you are, your inability to properly modify your energy balance is the primary reason you can’t keep the fat off.

And, if there is one thing that diets never tell you, it’s how to properly modify and maintain your energy balance. In my opinion, they purposefully skip over all that ‘boring energy balance stuff’. Why would they want you to know about it instead of keeping you going back to them to lose same 10, 20, 30 or more lbs. over and over again.

So, how do you go about properly modifying your energy balance? By feel? No way. If that was possible, you would
never have the weight problem in the first place!

Eating perfectly isn’t the answer either. It’s impossible for most people to eat perfectly most of the time. Even those people who manage to keep fat off don’t always eat perfectly. But nevertheless, somehow they still manage to keep the fat off.

Just exercising more isn’t the answer either. Think about this. The more you exercise, the hungrier you get. And the
hungrier you get, the more you eat! How do you manage lose fat then?

What’s actually needed in order to keep a perfect Energy Balance is determining your exact calorie and exercise needs and designing your daily diet menus and exercise programs. Only then, will you be able to keep off fat permanently.