Being overweight or obese is associated with an increased risk for the development of various health conditions such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, infertility, osteoarthritis, back pain, depression, sleep disorders, and some types of cancer.
Health Benefits of losing weight
Research has shown that losing just 10% of your body weight or less can have huge benefits to your health. Lowering body weight can reverse or prevent diabetes; lower blood pressure, reduce cholesterol, and triglyceride levels; and improve sleep apnea and other sleep problems. Even a study shows 90% of diabetes, 80% of heart disease; and 60% of cancers are preventable with healthier lifestyles and normal body weights.
How do you lose weight?
The best way to lose weight is to make small, realistic changes to your diet and the amount of exercise you do. The World Health Organization recommended that people combine a reduction of processed foods high in saturated fats, sugar, and salt and caloric content of the diet with an increase in physical activity.
Cutting down your total calorie requirement a little can help you lose weight gradually and safely. You can use the calculator on this page to know how much energy you require daily. What amount do you need to cut down and what will be the expected weight drop in a week?
Weight loss calculator
You just need to enter your weight, height, age, gender, and level of physical activity. The calculator will suggest you a solution for safer weight loss with your body mass index (BMI), basal metabolic rate (BMR), daily calorie requirement, ideal body weight range, and calorie distribution between three meals & snacks (breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks).
| Your sex: | Select gender Male Female |
| Age: | |
| Height: | |
| HeightUnit: | Select your height unit Centimeter Inch Meter |
| Weight: | |
| WeightUnit: | Select your weight unit Kilograms Pounds |
| Your Activity Level: | Select your activity Level Sedentary Lightly active Moderately active Normally cctive Very active |
| Expected weightloss: | Select your required weightloss 1lb/0.5kg per week 2lb/1kg per week |
As per Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicinal system) start a day with more calories that are eaten like a King for breakfast, eat like a Queen for lunch, and a pauper for dinner. Why, it is because sunlight and digestion are closely related; digestion is strong during the daytime up to 12 p.m. thereafter it starts dropping. It is preferable to take your breakfast around 8 a.m., lunch around 1 p.m. and dinner around 7 p.m. Old age people in India are healthy by following this Ayurveda style of eating. Why don't you? Additionally, it has been confirmed by clinical studies that people eating big breakfasts (50% calories) experienced higher weight loss compared with people eating big dinners (50% calories).