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Your body uses the calories in the food you eat for energy to live (for life-sustaining bodily processes). If you eat more calories than you need for those bodily processes, then you gain weight and those excess calories are stored as fat. (Where you store that fat is genetically determined.)

Today’s society is one where tasty and inexpensive high calorie food pervades the environment and makes it incredibly easy to eat excess calories. Combine this with a sedentary lifestyle, and it’s no wonder that overweight and obesity are epidemic in the United States. A healthy lifestyle means figuring out how to visually monitor your caloric intake so that it becomes second nature recognizing just “how much is too much.”

You can start today to incorporate these tricks to help you manage both sides of the calorie equation.