After giving it many laps and postponing everything possible, you have made the decision to lose weight. You may do it for aesthetics, health, or both at the same time. After all, losing weight is not just a way of looking better: overweight and obesity are decisive factors in our quality of life and can have an impact on our health in the medium and long term, from joint problems to increased risk of cardiovascular, metabolic and cancer diseases. Of course, losing weight is not always an easy task: contradictory advice, hundreds of diets and training plans, miraculous tricks, dietary products ... It is difficult to distinguish what is important and what is not. If this is your case and you don't know where to start, keep reading because here are some basic ideas that can help you. 1. The calories that come in for those that come out The first thing to keep in mind when losing weight is that there is only one trick to get it: consume fewer calories than your bo