when on a calorie diet do have to be strick on what you eat?

Answer 1

If you are focusing strictly on calories, then yes- you have to be extremely strict on what you eat! Try and choose foods that actually burn calories when you chew to consume them, like celery and lettuce. However, to be kinder to your system and to try and lose weight reasonably with results that might remain more permanently, try a diet that is limited on calories, high in protein, and low in fat, like the South Beach diet. Also, remember with ANY diet, you must eat more often throughout the day to maintain your body's metabolism. Too many people, entirely too often, believe that eating only once or twice a day will contribute to weight loss. Actually, the opposite is true. If you eat only once or twice a day, you are tricking your body into starvation mode, so you retain all of the calories you consume. Hope I've been of help!

Answer 2

Hmm...When on a calorie diet....I think what you meant to ask..and I am hope I am right is when on a restrcited diet or on a diet do i have to be strick on what i eat?

I really like this question because a lot of people think of the word diet and they first thing that comes to thier minds is that they have to starve and cut all sorts of food. I find this although an easy concept, extremely misleading. Let me explain.

The reason maybe y in the first place you are asking might be bacause you have too much of information on different types of diets. You havethe famous atkins diet which is no carbs, the low carbds diet, the juice diet and what not.

First of all let me qualify all this diet by saying that their results are mostly short lived. You MIGHT get some weight loss for a while...bu thtat might be only water and muscle loss not fat. The right way to go about a diet...is to eat reduced quatities of quality foods. This is to say that you still need carbohydrates, protein and fats in your diet if not your body will sense something wrong and try to adjust.

I recommend that you choose your carbs carefully. There are complex carbs and fiberous carbs that go a long way to keep hunger at bay. They inculde any vegetables, wholegrain breads or rice and fruits. They are low in calories but keep you full longer as compared to white rice or plain flour baked products like bagels and all.

Protien is your best friend when dieting coz it preserves your muscles especially if you are exercising as well. The best is a palm sized serving of lean chicken breast, tuna or salmon and evenlow fat milk.

Fats you still need for bodily fuctions. No doubts that food you eat will contain some amount of fats....you still need good fats like moega 3 acids found in fish and unsaturated oils like olive oil which are good fats and better metabolised.

I would suggest that for any meal you keep to this proportion for each of the calorie scource. 50% from carb 30 from protein and 20 from fats. THis is if you are dieting and looking tolose weight. How this work is that if your resting metabolic rate is 1500 calories...meaning if you lie in bed doing nothing,...to keep you alive your body need thats much calories in a day....... you want to maintain that amount of calories to avoid your body from going into starvation. for that 1500 cals use the proportion i mentioned above to divide out the calories. Read food labels for calorie contents..thats what they are for......

Finally, I like to say that a safe way for reducing calories is the one that lasts the longest. Drastically cutting will be short term and you will be back to square one in no time....if not more. Your body is not stupid.....If you need more advise feel free to email me.....i would be glad to help. Oh yah, by the way I am a nutritionist in training.

Cheers

Answer 3

Hey Lina,

If you are on a strict "Caloric Intake" diet, then no - a calorie is a calorie!

Important tho, is when!

Don't eat many calories before bed, in the evenings or when sick. These will not burn at the same rate that they would burn if your were active.

Good Luck,

James in San Diego

Answer 4

Ah Yea!

Answer 5

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Answer 6

DUH. diet u noe. lol