Here is a little Food for Thought...
Even the "healthiest food known to mankind" can make you gain BODY FAT. Contrary to what many fad diets would have you believe, calories DO count! And if you want to lose weight, you DO have to pay attention to them.
Think about this...you can eat 2,000 calories of the "healthiest food known to mankind". If you only burn 1,500 calories that day, then you just stored 500 calories of the "healthiest food known to mankind" as BODY FAT. So while what types of foods you eat are important, so is the amount.
In order to lose body fat, you have to be at a negative energy balance which just means you are burning more calories than you are taking in. It's pretty hard to do if you aren't paying attention to your calories. You wouldn't try to balance your checkbook without looking at the numbers would you? Of course not; it would be close to impossible.
So what if you are the type of person that says, "Hey...you aren't going to catch me calculating my calories! I don't have time for it!" Well I thought you might say something like that. Instead of carrying around a pad, pencil, and calculator, try just reducing your portions by 1/3. Remember the amount of calories you take in is direct proportion to the amount of food you eat. Yes...it's a little bit of trial and error, but at least you are paying attention to the calories as well.
If you don't try something different, expect nothing different.
