Your New Years Weight Loss Resolution™ by JayKay Bak PDF EBook JayKay Bak Your New Years Weight Loss Resolution | Page 47

All a calorie is is a measure of heat energy. One calorie is the amount
of energy being required to raise the temperature of a gram of water
by one degree Celsius. Calories are found in fats, proteins,
carbohydrates or alcohol so pretty much everything except water.
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carbohydrates contains 3.75 calories
fat contains 9 calories
protein contains 4 calories
alcohol contains 7 calories
You can see from the above figures that it’s easy to gain weight from
consuming foods high in fat and drinking too much alcohol as they are
laden with more calories than protein or carbohydrates.
Monitoring Your Calories
Up to this point you know how important diet and exercise are with
respect to your weight loss. You know that to lose weight you have to
eat. Severely restricting your calories to crash diet levels won’t only
hinder your weight loss effort but it will damage your body in the
process.
You have also learned that when you deprive the body of food it will
feed off itself for survival including burning precious muscle tissue
which alarmingly also includes the heart. This is why some dieters on
extreme calorie restriction diets often die of heart failure because the
heart has been broken down and weakened. So please don’t shock
your body by starving it.
The approach you should be taking is from a scientific standpoint,
don’t worry anyone can do this and you certainly don’t have to be a
doctor to understand it.
Make sure you eat from all food groups but eat smaller meals, say 5 to
6 meals per day to keep your energy levels balanced. When we
severely restrict calories we jump start our set point to kick in and
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