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Calories are Calories

Stephen — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:14:08 +0000

One of the things that we find ourselves talking about is being honest about how many calories we take in.

Most over weight people seriously under estimate or fail to acknowledge what and how much they actually eat.

It also doesn’t matter what sort of calories you eat because at the end of the day all the food you don’t burn up ends up on your hips or bum or stomach.

It also doesn’t matter if you eat them all in one go, at the end of the day or in the middle of the night!

How, when and what you eat does make a difference to how you feel during the day and it will affect your energy levels and health, but in the end the numbers don’t lie.

To be slim you need to understand the maths around dieting and the only way to get the maths right is to deal with your desire to eat badly.

Posted by Stephen

Hips don’t lie!

Stephen — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:41:50 +0000

Most people under count the amount of food and calories they take in.

To get an accurate reading just look at your hips. As Shakira said, “Hips don’t lie”.

Posted by Stephen

16% more calories

Stephen — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:37:35 +0000

Now we are in trouble!

The research boffins have said that the amount of calories people can eat may be wrong and actually we could all eat another 16% and still stay slim.

Okay fair enough, the numbers may have been miscalculated 19 years ago, but they are largely irrelevant anyway.

Most people don’t count calories that accurately. And I would say it’s probably not a good idea to do so as it can lead to becoming obsessed and thinking about food more than you already do.

The best way of judging the right calories for you is based on whether your weight is stable, going up or down.

We all know when we have eaten too much and the evidence is pretty obvious on our hips, bums and tums. So my advice is forget about the numbers and listen to your body.

Your body will tell you how much you really need then use the Toolkit to understand why you want to over eat in the first place.

One last thought

Are the naturally slim people out their going to pay as much attention to this latest piece of dieting trivia as people with an eating problem? I get the feeling they won’t care at all because they don’t think of the amount of calories they eat anyway.

They just eat what is right for them and spend their time thinking about more interesting things.

Posted by Stephen

Counting the calories in alcohol

Stephen — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:35:52 +0000

Sometimes people forget to think about the calories they are consuming in odd drink they have when they are getting slim.

That glass of wine when you get home after a hard day, or that beer in front of the football seem to hit the spot at the time but do you like the results after the calories they contain add up?

A simple question to help you on your journey to your destination:

How many calories do you need to be really happy with yourself?

Calorie counting anyone?

Stephen — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:30:18 +0000

Counting calories is tiresome isn’t it? So most people don’t like doing it.

The trouble is, if you are not paying attention, those extra calories really start to add up: 50 here, 121 there and so on until, somehow, you are eating far more than you think you are.

It’s like most peoples bank accounts: £20 spent there, £12 here, £52.75 there and all of a sudden … where did it go?

If you just keep an eye on those extra little bits then at the end of a week you will be astonished at how much you did not eat.

Top tip to keep you motivated: Keep a log of all the things you said, “I don’t need you” in your Journal then do a quick tot up at the end of the week to see how many calories you are not carrying on your hips. How good would you feel then!

Make a game of it, have some fun.