Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Counting Calories is Not Enough if You Want to Lose Weight

By Ricardo d Argence

It can be so frustrating when the scale just won't budge. You are dieting, counting calories, and cutting back the way you are supposed to. To make matters worse your best friend is nice and slim and it seems like she eats all the time.

Maybe you think you are just destined to be curvy, or you have the wrong genes to be thin. While those ideas may be a remote possibility, a more likely explanation is that you are eating the wrong combination of foods.

Do not have a thought that what you consume daily is what makes you thin or fat. Burning fat calories as energy before it turns to fat on your thighs,you must supply your body with the nutrients it needs in order to work like a well-oiled machine.

The importance of a well balanced diet and why we need to eat from every food group,we must understand. We can learn how to design a healthy diet that will make it possible to lose weight, once and for all,once we understand the basics of what our bodies need.

There are basically 3 types of calories that we need to eat every day. These are protein, carbohydrates, and fat. Your body requires all 3 types of calories, but not all in the same proportions at each meal. Believe it or not, some fat calories can actually accelerate weight loss, while some of the fat free foods you consume can cause weight gain if eaten too often.

Sugar is commonly found in fat free foods. A sugar-rich diet will result in your body leaving excess calories to be stored as fat.

It's a common belief that fat-free foods are safe because eating fat is a bad thing. When you consume fat calories they do not turn directly into fat on your body,the truth is that. When you eat fat free foods, you will not automatically lose weight either. Become receptive to a different way of dieting and to lose weight you must understand this fact.

Realizing which foods have fat-burning properties while keeping your blood sugar constant is the first step to losing weight -- and quickly. Foods that cause your blood sugar level to rise suddenly lead to a short energy boost followed by a devastating crash. This crash occurs when the blood sugar level drops too low, leaving you tired and hungry once again. The lower it drops after the spike,the higher the blood sugar level rises after eating. This is the primary reason that overweight people see their energy levels fluctuate throughout the day.

To have suitable energy levels, we need to provide our body with certain numbers of calories from each nutritional group. Any calories that are consumed and not used for fuel will be stored as fat. Excess calories will be stored, whether they came from carbohydrates, proteins, or fats originally.

In the right combination and at the right time in order for the body to function at its best,it is important to eat the right calories. We can turn on the power of the natural fat burning engine that resides within everybody, if we give our body what it needs. - 16755

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