Whenever you think of fat loss the first thing that pops into peoples heads is cutting down on your daily calories, counting how many calories you’ve had in one day and hell looking at the guidelines the government has given you.
Now this blog post will tell you how calorie counting is in fact rubbish and can even induce neurotic, obsessive compulsive behavior.
When clients chat to me regarding personal training two questions always seems to crop up, so much so that an entire book could be devoted to it! They are “How many calories should I consume?” and “What’s the best diet to follow?”
Here’s the shocker; calorie counting will NOT get you serious long term fat loss results.
Point systems and calorie counting do work in the short-term, I know enough people who have done it, however they don’t necessarily promote long term change and have the best healthy eating plans with them. Let’s take weight watchers as an example: How can a chocolate cake really be a healthy solution? But hey as long as it’s all you eat over the day as that’s all your points consumed, it’s OK…. Right!!!
And as for their low points replacements, don’t even get me started; go look at the ingredients list, hey I’m sure all the artificial sweeteners are really god for you, no honestly…
How many people have tried the weight watcher’s diet, or some other alternative and saw initial results, but the second you got bored, hungry or wanted “real food”, you put it all back on? That worked for you then didn’t it? I think you’re starting to see where I’m going here; it’s all complete rubbish!
In fact it’s that bad that I stopped encouraging using calorie counting years ago, pop on over to an article I wrote on 6 reasons why calorie counting is rubbish.
http://eCa.sh/m84c
Have a read and then pop back over here and let me know what you think, leave your comments and thoughts below.
David
www.personaltraineressex.com
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