Comprehensive Diet Plan - A Safe Bet Fat Loss

Comprehensive Diet Plan - A Safe Bet Fat Loss

Do you starve yourself in an effort that hourglass figure? And do you worry about your meals being larger than they ideally should be?

It's a relatively new diet plan doing the rounds in the US and is all about eating food that is low in calorie (energy) density. Low-calorie density food --- which can found in fruits, vegetables, soup lean meat and low fat dairy products --- are in water content and low in fat and content fewer calories per bite.

Fundamentally, for any weight loss diet, it's the number of calories one consumes that really matter. Low-calorie diet restricts food intake to between 800 and 1,500 calories per day.

The key to this plan is figuring out how energy-dense (it means amount of energy stored in a given amount of food) certain foods are. Energy density can be calculated by dividing the number calories (contained in a particular food) by the number of grams. With a proper diet plan, you are not meddling with your nutrients by cutting out on the fat completely or eating a high-protein diet. Nor will you need to give up your favorite foods like chocolate, bread or cheese.

So what are these low-density foods? Typically, those include foods which are rich in fibre and high in water content. So you can safely go for a huge bowl of assorted fruits rich in fibre. High energy-dense foods meanwhile consist of sweets, ice-cream and chocolate.

You can choose a very scientific diet plan which lays great emphasis on high-water content and low-density foods like apples, pears, strawberries, plums, orange and green leafy vegetables. A diet rich in fibres helps in better digestion and weight loss.

Calorie shifting is a fat loss approach designed to combat the natural slowdown that occurs in your metabolism whenever you are restricting your calorie intake. One of the reasons we strike plateaus in our diets, unable to lose pounds on end that is because your body is designed to preserve its fat stores and anytime those fat stores are threatened, your metabolism slows down in order to recompense.