I would like to write an article to answer the question on the amount of calories should i eat daily to lose weight?
This is a very common question, which isn’t surprising as modern health authorities are constantly saying that people eat too many calories each day and should cut back.
I have some issues with this approach, mainly since I don’t believe that calorie counting is necessary. Obesity has raised even though almost everyone owns a calculator and can do math.
While it may be correct that calorie count is important, this isn’t too important for normal people like you and me.
For now, let’s assume that the “calories in, calories out” theory works and that you might just shed weight by just stopping eating your favorite foods (fast foods, for example).
This theory tells us that people are becoming obese since they eat more food than they “burn” food. The calorie content of those extra food are then transformed by the body into fat, giving our body additional weight and will later lead to obesity.
If you were to drop 30 pounds with this technique and targeting a 500 calorie deficit a day, then you would have to weigh almost every piece of food you eat and calculate the calories in it, every day for 7 months.
Also, let’s pretend that you can do all of these (due to strong willpower), leaving yourself hungry and depraved of energy. Do you think you’ll be good to go after that?
As if you desire to lose weight, you have no choice but to do this or else, you will gain all the weight that you have lost.
Plus there are a number of other problems with calorie counting:
The body’s metabolism depends upon lots of factors: weight, genetics, age, sex, height as well as other factors.
Restricting your calorie intake will affect your metabolic rate, with its rate changing high and low.
The brain controls body fat levels, and it’ll increase your hunger and reduce your activity levels to try and resist any changes.
Also, weighing food will take a toll on your daily life. You won’t be able to eat out at restaurants or other peoples houses, and it’s just downright annoying and unsustainable.
Definitely, this is a recipe for disaster. People would not wish to weigh in and count the number of calories they’ll intake on every food they consume, that is required if they desire to lose their weight this way.
Additionally, I believe that the entirety of the human race can not control their desires, and that includes food consumption.
I will discuss a hormone that’s crucial to your body, and I am certain that you’ve heard of it already. It’s known as Insulin.
As you might know, Insulin is used for regulating one’s blood sugar levels, stopping people from being a diabetic.
What insulin also does, is to work as a gatekeeper to your fat cells.
When insulin levels are elevated, the body’s fat cells are told to store fat and to ensure that whatever amount of fat already in them doesn’t get out.
If insulin levels are high despite the fact that you’re eating less calories than you burn, then your body fat will have a real difficult time getting out of your fat cells.
This will then make alert your body, and your brain as well, that it’s deprived of energy.
The end result: hunger.
The best option to this is to select the foods that do not contain too much content of something that impacts insulin release.
One such example of that content is the macronutrient “carbohydrate”. A drop in carbohydrate intake reduces levels of insulin.
In this way, many of the fat stored in the body are burned and the feeling of hunger goes away. This is confirmed by researchers and experts.
Hunger for food will then disappear, and the body will instead use the extra fat as energy for the whole body.
Fat loss isn’t about calories, it is about eating the types of foods that encourage weight loss.