Feb 20 2009
Why You Should Switch to Low-fat-Low-Cal-Lite Foods
Switching to Low Fat Low Cal or otherwise “Lite” and “Diet foods” will make an incredible difference to your health. The standard diets out there will tell you that based on your weight and age you need to eat x amount of calories or x amount of fat each day. Calories and fat are basically units of energy that our body use. (It’s a little more complicated than that, but I won’t bore you with all the mundane complicated chemistry involved) Our body uses these calories and fat by doing things we do everyday. You burn calories when typing at a computer, chewing gum, even sleeping. But, these activities don’t burn a lot of calories. So if you are not burning off enough calories, your body only does one thing with the extra calories - it stores them. Storing unused calories results in weight gain.
Logically, it makes sense to only eat as many calories as your body needs. Everybody needs a different amount of calories based on their activity levels, height, weight, and age. Too many calories = weight gain.
The problem is with most diets is they expect you to count calories all day. Who the heck has time to count calories everyday? I didn’t, and I’m sure you really don’t either. It would take me hours of calculating and research to figure out a weekly meal plan that has x amount of calories. This is why diet books and diet programs do so wellat charging you money - they do this calorie counting work for you.
But what if I told you that you didn’t have to count a single calorie ever again for any reason? (Okay, so maybe we’ll count them once in awhile, but we’re not going to obsess over them!)
All you need to do is simply switch to low calorie/no calorie foods. Butter for example, we love butter. But, butter is high in fat and calories. Thankfully, there are tons of different low calorie/low fat options for butter. You can still eat butter in moderation - but there’s a healthier version of it. Making the simple switch to low calorie butter can cut out extra calories your body doesn’t need.
So, today’s homework is make a list of things you eat that can be switched to low calorie/low fat versions of food. If you compare the calories in what you would eat in regular versions of food compared to the calories and fat in no-cal, low-cal foods, you can see that you will save yourself anywhere between 100-600 calories a day. Without starving yourself. Without compromising the taste in the foods you eat. Without wasting hours counting calories on everything you eat and worrying about going over a calorie intake limit.
It’s just a matter of buying and using the low cal/no cal foods. Do that, and you’ve managed to trim off extra calories you don’t really need. How easy is that? Easy. I know. I wouldn’t do something if it was hard.
