The 3 Ugly Lies About Calorie Based Diet Plans

For many people that are trying to lose weight, it is a simple matter of calories in, calories out. After all, our body is a machine and a calorie is the fuel for that machine. If we are not giving our body enough fuel the form of calories on a daily basis, it is going to find that fuel elsewhere in our body.

This is how it depletes our body fat that it is carrying around. Although it seems interesting in practice, the fact of the matter is that calorie based diet plans go a lot deeper than that.

There is some research that shows that a calorie is not always a calorie. It all depends on what kind of calories you are taking into your body as to how your body is going to assimilate them.

For example, if you eat 1000 calories that are low on the glycemic index, your body is going to react much differently than if you eat 1000 calories from the high end of the index. By flooding your system with insulin as a result of putting too much sugar into your body, you are depriving it of the ability to lose weight. As a matter of fact, this is at the root of a lot of the weight that we are carrying around.

You also need to be cautious about where your calories are coming from. A farmer will feed his hogs cooked vegetables in order to fatten them up. If you were to feed them the same vegetables in their raw state, the hogs would lose weight.

There are no more calories in cooked vegetables than there are in raw vegetables but it is the type of food that we are eating. Raw vegetables are cleansing and they help to keep our system running properly. If you cook them, you are taking out a lot of the things that our body needs.

Finally, you need to be cautious about how many calories you're cutting out of your diet. If you go too far underneath your daily recommended calorie intake, you are going to put your body into starvation mode.

Yes, the type of food that you are eating is going to matter but if you go to radical as far as your calories are concerned, you're going to stop your body from losing weight altogether. Eat healthy, balanced diet that is low in sugar and high in raw foods. If you do this, you may not have to pay attention to calories at all.