Counting Your Calories
June 13, 2009
It’s all about calories, calories you consume and calories you burn shape up your body.
Calories is nothing but energy you get in food, your body uses the calories you consume as food in functioning, you tend to burn calories in all the activities you do, the amount of calories you burn depends on the activity.
You can either burn calories but getting active and physical or you can choose to store these calories in form of fat. To avoid the later you can either eat less, become more active or better still strike a balance between the two.
1 pound comprises of 3500 calories, hence to lose 1 pound weight over a week you need to burn 500 calories per day by whatever means you choose to do it.
There is no one way out, you need to build your lifestyle in a healthy manner and make sure you do the following:
Say no to High Calorie food:
In a day even if you skip one high calorie item from your diet, you would be able to cut down at least 400-500 calories (this depends on the caloric value of the food item). This shouldn’t be really difficult and you can choose different things to leave from your diet as you move ahead.
Opt for low calorie food instead:
Replacing full cream milk with skimmed milk, sugar with artificial sweetener, soda with a diet soda or chilled water works wonders and you don’t even have to try really hard.
Take care of your portions:
If we keep a check on how much we eat and start eating in moderation, we would not have to skip many food items all together. All you need to do is become a little smart, avoid second serving, enjoy your food, order smart at restaurants and become wise when you shop for food.
Check food labels:
Do you read the food label before you keep the stuff in your shopping bag? Food labels provide nutrition facts and information about the food you eat, these are mentioned per serving. The serve size is also mentioned so be sure you check that out. Besides checking the calories, see the amount of fat (and the kind of fat), carbs, dietary fibre, vitamins, minerals, protein, etc. the food contain.
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