One of the things I teach my clients seeking weight loss is that the old method of simply calculating calories consumed and calories burned is NOT going to help them sustain weight loss.

Yes, it will usually initially produce weight loss because you start consuming less food than you were previousl. However, there are so many more elements to the way that the body deals with those calories that need to be understood and utilized in order to reach your ideal weight and KEEP THE WEIGHT OFF.

What type of food those calories come from is of great importance. Your body will metabolize (break down and turn to energy to burn or fat to store) different foods in different ways (and the way your body does that will not necessarily be the same as someone else's body does it).

Five hundred calories of a processed sugar food (like candy) will create a whole different metabolic and hormonal response in the body than 500 calories of a healthy fatty protein (like salmon) will. The first will deplete nutritive stores and cause hormonal responses to store those calories (and satisfy appetite for a short time) and the second will add to nutritive stores and cause hormonal responses to burn those calories (and satisfy appetite for a longer time).

Here's an article I found by James LaValle from his Total Health Breakthroughs newsletter that explains a little bit more about this and helps you understand about the effect of sugary foods in the body: The Fallacy of Calories In, Calories Out

To understand the role of balancing your blood sugar as the Master Key to weight management and diabetes prevention, see my 3-part Healthy You! newsletter series from February to April 2009 here:
Part 1   
Part 2   
Part 3

If you need help curbing your sugar cravings from the emotional aspect, visit my website store to order your "Curb Your Carbs" hypnosis conditioning CD.
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