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It’s How Much You Are Eating That Counts
We all know that to live a healthy lifestyle we need to eat healthy food and exercise. So you may be asking yourself, why do you still hold on to unwanted weight when you are doing all the right things?
The answer lies in HOW MUCH you are eating.
The Weight Equation Goes Like This…
- energy in – energy out = the amount of energy your body has to store.
Your body needs energy just to get through the day which is known as your basal metabolic rate. Exercise adds to the amount of energy your body utilises and the food you eat acts as this energy source.
Even though eating a healthy diet is important, it is really the overall calories you consume every day that count. So yes if you eat more energy from a healthy diet of fruit, vegetables, yogurt, lean meat and whole grains than you expend, you will gain weight. It is that simple.
The Sweet Taste Of Success
When it comes to a healthy diet ‘sweet’ may not mean the taste of success. How many of you have started on a what you thought was a healthy eating program where you have restricted your calories and fats but do not have the success you expected.
Many of the popular weight loss programs actually encourage you to eat plenty of sugar and this may be why they fail. I understand you may be wondering what I am talking about – of course you don’t eat sugar when you are on a weight loss program. Right!
The Long List
On the DietDitch program we encourage you to avoid the long list. Why is this so? Well because we have a sneaky suspicion that this list can actually be detrimental to your weight.
Recently I was looking in mom’s pantry to see what sort of lists I could find. This wasn’t so easy because eating the DietDitch way, she really doesn’t have much of anything with long list. I was impressed. Anyway I did find a couple of things, the first being a packet of crackers. These are labelled on the packet as a ‘wholesome, country style, wheat cracker that the whole family will love’.
The Yo-Yo No-No
We wanted to do an article on yo-yo dieting because we really do feel that many people do not know just what yo-yo dieting is all about.
OK I know you know how to do it because many of you will have had this problem for a long time.
