Calories and Weight Control
Here are some general suggestions
for how to reduce calories and control your weight.
Keep a Food & Exercise
Diary
Weight loss studies show
that making a list of calories eaten in food and calories expended by
exercise is a big help in sticking to a weight loss program. It increases
calorie-awareness, boosts your motivation to keep dieting and helps to
identify eating mistakes.
Eat a Healthy Diet
Diet nutritionists say that
weight loss is faster and more enduring if we follow a healthy diet. Don't
forget there are several vitamins and minerals that play an essential
role in metabolism and weight loss. So if you want to burn calories efficiently
choose a diet which contains foods from all the food groups and try to
maintain a sensible calorie intake between 1200 to 1500 calories per day.
Improve Your Eating Patterns
- Don't eat too fast.
Your body needs time to 'register' the calories you digest. The faster
you eat the more calories you are more likely to digest before your
brain registers that you are full.
- Choose regular or small
portions.
Weight loss studies show that the more food you put on your plate, the
more you are likely to eat.
- Have a plan to combat
binges.
Most dieters have binges. So rather than try to prevent them, have a
strategy for what to do when they occur. Having a diet buddy or a friend
to exercise with or someone to call is big help when uncontrolled eating
occurs.
For calorie details of 2500
Foods, see Calories
in Foods
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