I know for a fact that what I did won’t work for everyone, but I’d like to detail how I lost 10 pounds with a few straightforward lifestyle changes.
Like saving and investing, it was simple but not necessarily easy.
The last time I deliberately lost weight was two years ago when I was tipping the scales in the mid-170s, which put me back at about the heaviest I’ve ever been.
I would guesstimate that this was a 20% to 30% reduction as compared to my normal daily intake that has kept my weight steady in the mid-to-upper 160s that I’ve been living at for most of the last two years since my last intentional weight loss two years earlier.
It would have been nearly impossible to limit my intake to 2,000 calories a day if I allowed myself to have a couple of beers in the evening.
The not-so-secret secret to weight loss is to eat less and exercise more. When I lost 10 pounds, I ate less and continued to exercise, but actually a little bit less than I had before.