Step Diet

This dieting plan is actually an equation for exercise and activity. The Step diet equation treats weight as excess calories that are consumed beyond those that are burnt. Thus, there must be equivalent physical activity to go with a corresponding intake of calories. Less exercise means weight gain. In short, this type of diet is concerned with the equation between your exercise and your food and not on what, when, and how you eat.

It insists that you count your steps rather than your calories. By being creative with how and where you exert the necessary steps, you will surely burn the unwanted calories and the excess weight. Too much concern with counting calories will not lead to anything but more weight; it is better to just burn them away by stepping. If it is necessary, reduce your food consumption correspondingly. When your body successfully loses weight, the metabolism thereof will also make the necessary adjustments to lessen the energy being used up.

If you want to reduce your weight some more, you should increase your exercise. If all you do is reduce your food or energy intake without any concern for your personal balance of energy, you may lose some weight but will never be able to keep on losing weight until you reach your target weight nor keep your preferred weight for a long time. Everything about  this diet comes down to the balance of energy, between food consumption and physical activity, and tipping that balance reasonably to achieve your preferred weight loss.

In order to retain your weight for a long time, all you have to do is keep the balance of energy at your target weight. The diet introduced the following concepts to facilitate the use of this particular diet. You determine your energy being burned in a state of rest in its equivalent in steps, called Body Steps. You determine the energy burnt through physical exertion in steps, called Life Steps. The total of energy burned in life steps and body steps measured in steps is called Mega Steps i.e. your total energy expenditure in steps.

With Steps diet, there are different equivalents for male and female. These calculations are made within the balance of energy, with the calorie intake converted to the number of steps required to burn one calorie with your height and weight factored in. By finding the needed balance between Mega Steps and calorie steps, you will be able to reduce your weight and maintain it as well, even for a long time, by accomplishing the necessary number of Life Steps daily added to your Body Steps and balanced with the necessary food intake in calorie steps.

It is important to consider that the tools that you are to use is a bathroom scale to determine your body weight and a step counter to count your steps, no matter where you are walking. This way, you accomplish weight loss in a 12-week period and a maintenance regimen afterwards in a new balance of energy. Indeed, this diet only proves that stepping or walking is the logical exercise regimen because we do it everyday.