Count-2000-Calories

Counting calories , when closely followed, will produce good results. It achieves the ultimate target of any diet plan, i.e. we consume less calories than we burn. Neither calorie counting nor any other diet will work without achieving that goal. What are the pros and cons of Calorie Counting ? Calorie Counting Cons: 1- To go this diet you must have a good will power to succeed with it 2- They can be very restrictive concerning the menu of foods we are allowed to eat ( It is not that much restrictive when you are counting 2000 calories/day) 3- Sometimes they may be hard to follow, e.g. when you are eating out learn ( How can you order 500 calories while you eat out ) 4- If you are counting a low limit of calories , they may leave you feeling hungry or unsatisfied ( Here is the beauty of counting 2000 calories, as it gradually prepare your body to entering a new calorie balance) Calorie Counting Pros: 1- When you closely count calories, they offer slow but steady results 2- They enc...

you do not count-2000-calories/day, you fight your body's normal mechanism to regulate its weight and keep it within a certain range. When introducing 3500, 4000 or 5000 calories every day, or cutting calories down to 1500, 1200 or 1000 calories per day, you disrupt the normal mechanism that should work within an allowed limit. How the weight keeping mechanism works: There are many "set points" of different measures of the body that either genetically coded (like body temperature), or dictated by the surrounding environment (like stress). These set points are present in a part of our brain called Hypothalamus. One of the major functions of the hypothalamus is to regulate secretion of endocrine hormones directly into the blood. Hormones and nerves form the 2 regulatory mechanisms of the body. The hypothalamus also sets a point for body weight based on the level of the input and output of calories it is used to. It seeks to keep the body weight constant, even if this point ...