CALORIE COUNTING
Have you checked your BMI?
What is BMI? This is your Body Mass
Index made up from your height/weight ratio and there are tools online for
checking your weight/height ratio to measure your BMI. From this reading you should be able to gauge
what is your appropriate daily calorie requirement. If you've already achieved some weight loss then the bad news is that this maybe decreased on your
previous allowance when you were at a higher weight.
You should be aware that a lower BMI requires a lower energy burn and
therefore if you are calorie counting adjust your calorie count accordingly if
you want to see continued weight loss. There
are online calorie counters available and downloadable Apps to help with all of
this – so the good news is that there’s no maths input required by you.
The online and App counters will help you in keeping a food diary. The entries are quick and simple so you don’t
have to carry round a notebook writing everything down. Even so you need to be sure to include
everything you ate and drank as it’s quite easy to forget incidentals or have a
tiny cheat but it all counts and goes to make up the total or your intake for
each day.
If your weight loss has slowed for no apparent reason and you’re still
following all the rules but find yourself feeling demotivated, some say this is
the time for a mini splurge. Treat yourself
to a slap up dinner. Sounds odd and
counterproductive but the science to support this actually suggests that it
could help. With prolonged calorie reduction
the levels of the hormone leptin decreases.
Leptin regulates our energy balance and is associated with satiety or
the indicator to let our brain know that we’ve had enough to eat. So once in while it doesn’t hurt to give
leptin levels a boost by enjoying a mini feast and then return to eating a
controlled, regular and healthy diet.
This is a tool used in weight loss as for some this will help to
reinvigorate their weight loss process.
It doesn’t hurt to check your BMI again after losing weight. This will help to endorse that your goal is
realistic. If you are trying to get into
a dress size below what is a normal natural fit for your body size/shape then this
may be considered unhealthy. Even if you
were able to reach it you’d probably find it hard to maintain an inappropriately
low weight. So to measure up by checking your BMI chart you'll ensure your goal weight is also an ideal weight for
your body size and type.
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