How To Lose Weight Without Counting Calories – Part 1

Theoretically, one pound is equal to 3500 calories. This would mean that to lose one pound of body fat you must burn off 3500 more calories than you eat over a period of time. For the most part, counting calories can be time consuming and often only highlights exactly how much food you can’t eat during the day.

What you focus on will expand. In other words, when you focus on counting calories, you are focused on how much you can’t have and this only eats away at your subconscious and desires.

Instead, let’s talk about how to lose weight without considering those dreaded calories. There are a couple of ways to burn fat, stay full, get healthy and not count calories.

The overall message is that if you eat less and exercise more you’ll lose all the weight you want. The problem is that every calorie isn’t created equally. In other words, the calories found in celery won’t create a problem with insulin resistance, carbohydrate cravings and weight gain. But the calories in donuts, cakes and cookies will do exactly that.

One way to move forward in your weight loss efforts without counting calories is to replace your grains and carbohydrates with proteins and fats. For instance, by substituting protein at your morning meal for carbohydrates [eating eggs instead of bagels] research subjects felt more satisfied and ate fewer calories in the following meals without counting what they were eating. (1)

The people in this study also didn’t experience a rise in their blood cholesterol levels by eating eggs for breakfast in the morning. This research only adds to the research already done which points out that healthy adults can enjoy eggs without raising their cholesterol levels.

References:

(1) Egg Nutrition: Adults who eat eggs for breakfast lose 65 percent more weight

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/epr-awe080408.php

Resources:

US News: How to Eat Healthy

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/2012/09/13/how-to-eat-healthywithout-counting-calories

National Institute of Health: Eg Breakfast Enhances Weight loss

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2755181/

Kimberly Snyder: How to lose weight without counting calories

http://kimberlysnyder.net/blog/2013/08/10/how-to-lose-weight-without-counting-calories/

Muscle for Life: How to Lose Weight without counting calories

http://kimberlysnyder.net/blog/2013/08/10/how-to-lose-weight-without-counting-calories/