Creating Your Own Diet Plan

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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 Time: 1:29 PM
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Staying on a diet is an easy way to lose weight, and, definitely, still very popular nowadays. But before going on a diet, you should understand what causes weight gain. Calories are the main reason. Everything we eat and drink contain calories.

Scientifically speaking, a calorie is the amount of heat energy required to raise 1 gram of water by 1?C. One thousand calories is equal to 1 kilocalorie (kcal). All foods we take in contain calories.Kcal is the unit most often used for food energy, though most people simply refer to it as "calorie".

To work, calories are required by the body. If you do more work you, there are more calories you use or burn. When the amount of calories you burn is less than the amount that enters your body, the spare calories are stored as reserve energy; but if the calories are still unused, they are converted to fat, which makes you gain weight.

Good news is that there are solutions exist concerning this problem. A good diet plan is to lessen the amount of calories one takes in and still provides enough energy for everyday work. Generally, calories can be found in carbohydrates, proteins and fats. One gram of fats contain 9 calories while both carbohydrates and proteins contain four calories

One of the many diets available is the famous South Beach diet. Most people might find these diets incompatible with what they want to achieve. They resort, therefore, to making their own diet plan.

Your age, height, current weight, and gender must be taken into consideration first. Analyze how much work you do in one day, and how much energy you spend in working. Then solve you basal metabolic rate (BMR) or the amount of calories you need to maintain basic body functions like breathing. You can easily find calorie values of different kinds of food in the internet, as well as BMR and calorie count calculators. Next is to subtract the amount of calories you take in from the sum of your BMR and your activity calories. A difference of zero is ideal, but if you're eating more than you're burning, then you're likely to obtain weight.

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