Calorie controlled diet?

 

A calorie controlled diet is a diet that focuses on the amount of energy you get from food not the type or quality of food you eat.

 

ALL DIETS ARE CALORIE CONTROLLED

 

 

However most diets control calorie by resticting, limiting or elimating certain foods (junk foods) or by focusing on eating healthier foods (and thus reducing the junk foods). 

 

 

A calorie controlled diet on the other hand focuses primarily the amount of kcals consumed with they type of food playing second fiddle. However, Ive never seen anyone advertise the choclate diet as long as you control the amount of calories. 

 

 

Calorie focused diets 60-90%   focus on reducing junk food / increasing good foods

Calorie focused diets 10-40%    focus on calorie control

 

 

Non (normal) kcal controlled diets do control the amount of kcals. All diets are calorie control. It is just the method and mind set that is slightly different. 

 

non focused calorie controlled diet reduces "X" amount of kcals by eliminating junk foods

calorie controlled focused diet reduces a "set amount" of kcals by elimating junk foods

 

 

ALL DIETS WORK IF THEY REDUCE KCALS

to a level less than what your body uses)

 

 

Calorie Controlled Diet controls calories by reducing the amount of junk food you consume, but allowing you to eat any food you like as long as you dont go over your daily or weekly limit

 

For example if your diet restrict you to 1500kcals a day you would normally try to eat lots of healthy food and perhaps have a snack or two (like weight watchers/slimming work). If by evening you have only consumed 1000kcals then you would be allowed 500kcals of choclate, ice cream, wine or any other food that takes your fancy.

 

Some diets focus on daily target only, while other focus on weekly. For example if you consume 1250 kcals a day for 5 days then you will have an extra 1250kcals to consume over the weekend

 

 

Slimming world and weight watchers controls calories by using points and sins to reduce the amount of junk food you eat. They allow you a little treat to stop you eating huge quantaties of junk food

 

Atkins diet controls calories by reducing the amount of junk food you eat by increasing the amount of meat you have (regardles of your views on meats, esp processed or fatty meats, on the whole meat has less energy/calories than junk food, and thus helps to reduce the amount of kcals)

 

Alphabet Diet controls calories by reducing the amount of junk food by restricting the foods you can eat during any given day

 

 

All of the above diet and any other all work the same way. They are all calorie controlled diets. diets work because they reduce the amount of energy/calories we consume.

 

The only difference between ALL diets is

• how they try to motivate you to reduce the kcals

• how healthy they try to make it while motivating you to reduce the amount of kcals you consume.

 

 

DO THEY WORK?

 

Only if you can stick to them 

 

I use many different types of diets for my clients. The simpe fact is different thigns work for different people. For some clients it is a case of telling them to stop eating crap. Other we use online nutrition trackers to teach them how much energy is in foods. Thsi in itself makes them reduce their intake drastically. Some use healthy diets where the aim is to eat as much healthy food as possible (reducing the amount of junk food) and other use kcal controlled focused diets, with the aim of eating as much heealthy food as possible, but without the guilt if they have some junk. They simply eat less the rst of day or next day)

 

 

Often people say you shouldnt count kcals. You have 2 choices

 

Count them and reduce the amount for food / energy you consume

Dont count them and reduce the amount of food/energy you consume.

 

I love numbers facts and figures so for me counting kcals is a way to judge accountabiltiy.  If you find eating healthy easy, then there is less need to count calories, As everyone who eats very healthy (low fat meat, fruit & veg) will eat between 1000-1500 kcals. Kcals is more important for teaching people about how much energy is in different foods and also for keeping track of the bad days. 

 

Bad days can be between 2000-6000kcals. If you dont know which end of those figures you are at you have no idea why you are not losing weight. you could eat great all week and spoil it in one day. Or you could eat great all week, and your bad day actually wasnt too bad and didnt get in your way of weight loss.

 

 

Conclusion

 

Kcal controlled diets are as good as any other diet if you can stick to them. Its simply a case of finding what works best for you. 

 

they are also good for education