Cutting Calories And “Toning”

You have to cut certain foods while dieting and most of the time it’s the obvious ones like processed sugars, trans fats and fatty proteins. Take a look at some of the foods you eat in a normal day and add up all of the calories as per serving size from the nutritional facts. Now take a look at

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the “Fat calories from those foods you eat and calculate the percentage of fat calories to the total calories. This is just a quick and simple way to see what foods you may need to either stop eating or reduce. Your body needs some fat but you can get plenty of fats from the right meats.

Cutting carbs is not healthy. Cutting the right carbs is healthy. Your body need carbohydrates, and you need to know which ones to cut or reduce. Often times people go on these “low carb” or carb cutting diets and they fail. Why? Because they don’t educate themselves on carbohydrates and usually just try to cut any carb they see. Which carbs should you reduce? It’s important to know the difference. You have complex carbohydrates which are the good ones and you have simple carbohydrates, which are the not-so-good ones. I wrote quite a bit about carbohydrates awhile back at Healthandmen.com, now know as Blisstree Men’s Health.

Complex carbohydrates, sometimes called “Slow Digesting Carbohydrates” are carbohydrates from natural food sources. Natural food sources such as fruits, grains, legumes, and some vegetables. Natural food sources are usually also rich in fiber, which is good for the body as well.

Simple carbohydrates, sometimes called “Fast digesting” are carbs made from man made processed foods such as refined sugars, and flour based food products

Before starting any type of specific diet, it’s best to study up and educate yourself on the pros and cons of it.

Muscle Toning:  Muscle toning is a rather deceptive phrase. If you say to yourself that you want to tone your muscles, in reality you’re just saying that you want to be leaner. That’s all muscle toning really is. It’s the process of reducing the fat between the muscle and skin, thus showing muscle definition. Toning has just always been the silly word used to make it sound more glorified and often used to sell fitness equipment.

Research, review and apply. These are three key factors in being succesful at any diet and exercise program.