I am new to dieting and would like to ... - Cholesterol Support
I am new to dieting and would like to know how many calories I need to keep to daily for loseing weight
Not sure for Women but the NHS website is brilliant.
Not sure how useful it is to count calories. One way to lose weight is to to cut down on processed food, especially processed carbohydrate and sugar. If a third of my diet was from starchy carbs I would be as big as a house! Low fat food is often full of sugar too, so needs to be avoided. This article from New Scientist has a good explanation scientificamerican.com/arti...
Good luck with the dieting!
Studies on dieting have shown that short term dieting doesn't work for the vast majority. You need to consider a permanent change in life-style. So on a long term basis, it is hard to see that anyone will actually work out how many calories they consume on a daily basis and how much they burn.
Get yourself a cheap pedometer and try to increase your step count. We should be doing 10,000 steps a day (half that is probably a decent target).
More exercise, less food, and weigh yourself on a regular basis.
Hi, another interesting subject. Eat what you need, fresh food, no processed food.
Take a look at the following two sites.
zoeharcombe.com/ and
I have managed bring down my weight, my diet for a week-- I eat 850 g of natural yogurt with olive oil, 100g of French Roquefort with brown toast, oily fish with eggs, chicken curry, veg curry and rice, smoked salmon with salad, for breakfast porridge cooked in milk with ground cinnamon. Go to the gym at week ends for 30 minutes of exercise. Have maintained my weight!
Good luck.
Its not the quantity of calories that you eat that determines how much weight you will lose ,but the quality of the calories that you consume.Most people are eating more and yet nutritionally there bodies are being starved of important nutrients,because of the poor quality of food in processed meals and over stored fruits and veg.This is why you see people walking round like the walking dead,searching for the next sugar or caffeine fix.
As for doing more exercise.Your body will only perform at optimum levels to burn calories if you provide it with the correct fuel to do the job properly.If you had a Ferrari you would n't spend all that money buying a quality car to put cheap oil and fuel in it.so why do people think that if you put poor quality nutrition into your body,that the outcome is going to be anything other than poor quality of life.
If your going to use the scales,buy one that measures your body fat and weight and combine this with taking body measurements to see how you body is shrinking,especially your waistline.If you want to accelerate your bodies ability to lose weight and keep it off you need to create lean body mass by combining aerobic exercise and resistance workouts.
In short you have to look at the whole picture rather than taking one part of it and hoping that it will give you the magic bullet.That is why the word diet in most peoples cases is an acronym for failure.Because we are looking for a quick fix rather than a permanent fix.
If the mind is right for change the body will follow.
