Controlling Calorie Intake

Going over the Calorie limit

Unfortunately, for more obese individuals (sans metabolic disorders) they don’t stop at an excess 1,000 calories a day. They go over the limit by either lessening their activity which requires lesser calories or increasing their calorie intake. To illustrate let’s use the story of Joe an athlete recently dumped by his girlfriend. He usually eats 3,000 calories a day to maintain his performance in sports. When he got dumped by his girlfriend, he stopped playing sports and lazed around all day. Supposedly Joe should have cut down his Calorie intake for the day to 1,500 or less. Yet what he did he still ate 3,000 calories in fact he ate 5,000 calories after munching through junkfoods, sodas and chocolates to soothe his depression. So 5,000 – 1,500 = 3,500 calories. Divide that by 5 that’s 700 grams of weight gain for that day alone.

Control your Calorie Intake

For the metabolically healthy individual, you can actually make sure that you won’t go over your calorie intake easily. First is determine your activity for the day, if it’s very heavy such as spring cleaning, allot yourself 2,500 or more calories, if you’re going to sleep the whole day stick with 1,000 calories. Then all you have to do is read the nutrition labels for most food sources. When you pour yourself a glass of milk, that’s 1 serving and you can check the milk container how much calories you’re going to get per serving. If the food you bought doesn’t have nutrition labels, weight it and classify it. If the food is mostly carbohydrates get the grams and multiply it by 4. Same goes for proteins. For fats, get the grams and multiply it by 9.

Macro nutrition overload is just one of the many reasons humans gain weight yet it’s frequently the one thing we forget. If you monitor your intake you can keep yourself healthy, get that figure that you have always wanted and save yourselves from the food bill.

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Guest Poster Linda Sui, Japan

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