We don’t like it, but don’t think much of it when we gain weight a couple of pounds at a time throughout the years. Yet age related weight gain is not normal. Anthony Hopkins, the actor is in his seventies, and his weight loss through healthy eating and exercise proves it. Think about it. While we work hard in the office we usually don’t move much, except for the occasional break to the coffee machine. While caffeine helps increase our metabolism, it can’t make up for the energy or calories we’ve taken in with food, energy that will be stored away in unwanted fat cells. Personally, I don’t believe most of us should go on a 800 calorie diet. The thought alone makes me hungry. But if you know your Basal Metabolic Rate, also known as BMR, you can easily figure out your daily energy needs in light on how much you exercise. The more you exercise, as in strength training as well as aerobics such as walking, the higher your Basal Metabolic Rate, better yet, the more you are allowed to eat without gaining weight.

The goal is to keep our muscle instead of losing it, as well as to gain more muscle to ramp up energy needs. After all, you want to keep a healthy body composition of muscle strength over accumulated energy fat storage around your middle.

Said newly slim Tony Hopkins: “I lost too much, 75 pounds in two years. But I gained a little back in Europe. I was addicted to bread, cookies, whatnot. I love all the bad stuff. My wife’s no dictator, but she said I must stick to a regimen. So I’m in the gym six days a week, I power walk, live on 800 calories a day. No pasta. No seconds. A sandwich occasionally. Now I’m a health nut. I can’t get back into my wardrobe. I gave it all away to some mission. I tried tailoring the pants but they look ridiculous.

” The Oscar-winning star credits his wife Stella Arroyave for helping maintain his weight loss, which he achieved by eating just 800 calories a day and going to the gym six times a week.

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