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The following is a short list of ways in which the standard model of counting
calories breaks down:
First and foremost, the amount of calories listed in a food’s nutritional information
is not always the same as the amount of energy it produces in your body.
Second, whether or not eating a certain food causes the body to store its energy
as fat depends on many factors, including how much you are eating, what other
foods you are eating at the same time, the level of glycogen stores in your body,
your body's insulin response, the time of day, and proximity to exercise.
There is a feedback effect between your diet and your basal metabolic rate (in
other words, your metabolism changes based on what, how much, and when you
eat.)
Let's explore each of these points below, in more detail, which explain why
traditional calorie deficit diets don't work.
Breakdown #1: The amount of calories listed in a food’s nutritional
information is not always the same as the amount of energy
it produces in your body.
When you look at the nutritional label of a food product, you will see that every
food has a certain number of calories. For example, you may look on the label on
a loaf of bread and find that a piece of bread has 144 calories in it.
The number of calories is usually broken down among the 3 major types of
macro-nutrients in our food: proteins, carbohydrates, and fats.
Proteins are the building blocks of the body, used to create new tissues,
hormones and enzymes. The largest sources of protein are meats, though there
are also proteins present in most dairy products, and in some other foods such
as bread, beans, and brown rice.
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