A moderate cut backs can signal starvation and stores more fat then ever. Aerobic exercises 30 min 3 times a week. Jogging, aerobic dance, rowing, stair climbing, swimming. Mild exercise increases dietary thernogenesis using up calories before they have a chance to store as fat. More muscles you build more fat you burn night and day.
Muscle is active tissue it burns calories around the clock.
Set your thermostats at 68 in winter and 79 in summer. Compensate for a less efficient metabolism after 20 years old. I should weigh 144 to 176 pounds or 160 pounds. You're obese if you weigh at least 20 percent more than the weight listed for your height and age in weight tables. I hate to admit that but saying it is so is the first step to better health.