If
you've ever looked the word up in the dictionary, I'm sure the
scientific definition provided little incite to the importance of
calories as it applies to your day to day life. I know it didn't help
me much when I was Cholesterol Remedy Report beginning to change our family's lifestyle to a
healthy one. To me, that's because there should be a second
definition. A calorie is something that you take in to provide energy
and put out (or burn) when you perform an activity. Both aspects to
the equation are important, but not always well understood.
Everything
you do, whether it's going for a run or sound asleep in your bed,
burns calories. The act of breathing burns calories. On that side of
the equation, the important part is to figure out how many you burn,
and perhaps increase the number by exercise. Everything you consume,
with the exception of water, adds calories. Sometimes, like eating a
raspberry, you may burn more calories chewing and digesting than is
found in the food, but that's another story. That is the simple
definition of the term as it applies to your life.
Calculating
those calories can be an extremely useful tool. It's not just
important when you're trying to lose weight, if you are at your ideal
weight you want to make sure you can maintain it. If you consume more
than you burn, your body will store it as fat. Doing the calculations
used to be very difficult, both for what was consumed or burned. Food
scales and mathematical calculations were needed, and it was time
consuming, frustrating and usually resulted in a loss of interest by
the poor dieter. Not so anymore.
There
are a number of sites that have free calculators on them. These will
help you even calculate what's going on while you're asleep. Just
enter your age, weight and sometimes gender along with the length of
time you were doing the activity and the results are totaled up for
you. You can do the same with the food. Gone are the days when you
had to use spring scales. Now there are digital scales that are much
more accurate and a lot easier to read. That allows you to be certain
you know how many servings of a food you eat. They also clean up
easier.
There
is one last tip for you when it comes to the subject of calories. A
lot of people find the simplest diet is to just plain not eat. That
isn't a good idea for a lot of reasons. One is that it will put you
in famine mode, and you will be unable to lose it. In fact, you could
end up gaining.
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