Lose weight withtout counting calories
Overview & goals
Have you struggled to lose weight and keep it off? If so, then you’re not alone. If fact, millions of people in the United States have fallen victim to weight gain after following a caloric restricted diet.
The problem with caloric restriction is how our bodies adjust to caloric restriction. We consume much less calories and change our diets to healthier foods, but once we get off our diet, then all the weight comes back or more. Without getting into “is a calorie a calorie,” meaning, is a calorie from broccoli the same a calorie from chocolate? In short, the answer is yes and no. In terms of calories, then yes, but its metabolic impact is different. In other words, how our bodies utilize energy and stores energy is very different depending on the rate of breakdown and utilization.
Before we lose you with the boring science stuff, let’s investigate different weight loss strategies that we could use to lose weight. We have other articles relating to why diets fail, but in short, we know caloric restrictions changes your baseline for how many calories your body utilizes a day. Our bodies will lose weight to accommodate the lower caloric intake until we reach an equilibrium. Once the weight loss to caloric requirements ration is balance, then we experience a plateau.
We could change the foods we eat, but this is more of a lifestyle approach than a temporary diet. If our diet consists of mostly fast foods, then we can switch to whole food sources, which consist of healthy lean meats, fruits, and vegetables primarily with occasional bad meals.
However, over the last decade, more and more studies about intermittent fasting are being published as a method of weight loss and balanced diets.
