Calorie counting from SLP Slimming

Calorie Counting

Calorie counting is one of the best ways to help lose weight. Here's the tools you need to make calorie counting easy.

According to the British Medical Association "To lose weight, the energy intake from food must be less than the energy output". This is why calorie counting is an effective weight loss method.

Losing weight through calorie counting is relatively easy. You won't have to put normal life on hold while calorie counting. Added benefits are that calorie counting raises your awareness of what your body needs; educates you about what's in what you eat, and helps you learn how to eat healthily for life.

Starting to Calorie Count

First you'll need to work out how many calories you need each day to maintain your current weight, and how many to lose weight at a rate of 1-2lbs a week. It gives you all the tools you need to make calorie counting easy. You can keep online food and exercise diaries, calorie count your own recipes, and find out how many calories you need.

Next you need to keep track of how many calories are in the foods and drinks you consume each day, to make sure you have a negative calorie balance.

You can do this by keeping a food diary and checking the calorie content of what you eat either from a calorie counting book.

Burning Off Calories

There are three ways of burning calories. Here's what they are and how you can influence your body into burning more calories.

You can make weight loss quicker and easier by increasing your metabolic rate and burning more calories - here's how:

Metabolic Rate is the rate at which the body burns up calories. A body that consumes 2500 calories a day, and burns 2500 calories a day will stay at the same weight. A body consuming 2500 calories daily but burning only 2000 will gain weight at the rate of about 1lb a week.

This explains why that 'lucky' person across the table from you doesn't get fat from all that junk food.

You can do quite a lot to speed up your metabolism - the secret of burning calories lies in knowing what determines your metabolic rate and what you can do to influence it.