Is It Possible To Lose Weight And Not Count Calories?

Many weight loss diets, diet books, low carbohydrate programs and so on seem to love to advertise their programs by saying 'no calorie counting', 'eat as much as you want' and so on whereas other programs swear by the fact that you must count calories. So, who is right? Well both, kind of and here is why.

The key to weight loss or indeed transforming your body in anyway is the energy balance. Simply put, if you consume more energy/calories than you use up then you will gain weight, if you consume less calories/energy than you use up you will lose weight and if you consume the same amount of energy as you use up then you will maintain your weight. You see it is all very simple.

So, do you need to count calories to lose weight? Well no not exactly, you could just go through your days guessing that you are using up more energy each day than you are consuming. In a few weeks time you may notice that you have lost a few pounds or you may not, you may even find you have gained some weight!

The point I am trying to make is why leave weight loss down to chance, wouldn't it be better to know how much you should be eating and to know that you are definitely going to lose weight? Of course it would. I know what you are thinking now, you want me to do hours of calorie counting and to work through energy balance equations to keep me on track. I understand your frustration; calorie counting is not the most fun thing in the world so here is a quick way to stop you counting your calories each day or at least make it less painful.

This process will take sometime and ideally you can do this over the space of a couple of weeks but once it is set-up there is no more work required at all. Most people have a fixed variety of food that they eat. They may eat cereals with milk for breakfast, jam on toast, bacon and eggs and so on. What you need to do over the course of a month is for each typical meal/portion of food that you have, just one time, work out the calorie contents of that meal/portion. You can easily do this whilst you are preparing it or even eating it. If you do this for just one dish per day for a month then you will have 30 meals/portions worth of calories worked out. From this menu of meals/portions you can then simply select the meals which will combine to hit your daily energy allowance.

This same menu can then be used over and over again and you can continually add meals to your menu to increase your database of food that is specific to what you eat. In this way, so long as the meals you are eating are nutritious i.e. they contain fruit vegetables, you can simply keep this type of diet going as long as you like. It is very flexible keeps your calorie counting simple and helps to give you something to aim for and a plan to follow.

Ideally you ought to aim for a calorie deficit of no more than 500 calories per day. Much more than this and your body will think it is starving and slow its metabolism right down, exactly what you do not want for weight loss. Instead you need to show your body that it is in no danger of starving by continuing to supply it with a steady supply of calories over 4-6 smaller meals per day that in total work out as a net loss of 500 calories per day.

By following this approach and doing some exercise you will find yourself losing weight naturally and healthily and what is more in a manner that will keep the weight off for life and leave you feeling trim and healthy. If you like the sound of this approach then I strongly recommend you check out the 'Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle Ebook available on the links below.

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