Food and diet

1. There after six - you can!
No matter what time of day you eat. What really matters - it's the amount of food, its composition and physical activity throughout the day. These factors affect the set, loss or maintain your current weight. But if you decide to have a meal before going to bed, then the consequences as well calorie intake does not keep you waiting.

2. "bad" calories do not exist
You may have heard that there are products that help to lose weight because they are difficult to digest. Organism supposedly spends so much effort on the digestive process that burns a lot of calories accumulated. Under the brand name "food without the calories" for many years losing weight around the world imposed citrus and celery. The problem is that it is not so. The amount of calories the body burns during digestion, microscopically compared with calories contained in the food itself.

3. "liquid calories" have the meanings
If you sit on a diet, which involves counting calories, you will surely add up the numbers carefully after each meal. And do you think the calories that are in drinks? Do you remember that in calories eaten at lunch, we must add a cup of coffee, cocktail or a can of soda?

If you think that the calories in liquids do not, you are much mistaken. Take, for example, soda. Any sweet pop in calories "pull" at 500-1000 kcal, despite all the useful supplements, vitamins and other antioxidants, the manufacturer promises. Standard glass of latte - 500 ml - pull 260 kcal, and the standard portion of a cocktail "Margarita" - 500 kcal.
In addition, the brain is unable to adequately assess the approximate number of calories in a liquid (in this case it is quite easy to do it to solid food). So no stoplights peacefully sipping soda or sweet coffee with milk, he will not send. If your diet allows you to consume no more than 1200-1500 calories a day, better take them in the form of food, not drinking. Drink water, green tea and other low-calorie beverages.

4. Dessert can turn into dinner
Do not put yourself in the frame and do not deny yourself from time to time to enjoy eating delicious cake or a cake. Once a week, allow yourself to "off." For example, let's disobedience holiday for you will be Sunday ... Go to the restaurant and let yourself to eat high-calorie dessert. However, even if such a "gap" will be in the afternoons. And during a dinner have to deny yourself.

5. Diet drinks contribute to weight gain
Scientists still are at a loss, but the fact remains - lovers dietary gazirovok get fat faster and stronger than those who drink ordinary soda is high in calories, or do not drink at all. Most likely, the matter of artificial sweetener that is rich diet soda.

6. In cold weather, lose weight faster
What winter accumulates excess zhirok actually not true. Rather, weight is added, but not because of the weather and cold temperatures, changed metabolism, but because of the fact that in the winter we move less. A cold temperatures only increase metabolism: as a result, we and warm.

7. Diets really work
The phrase "diets do not work" now does not say just lazy. In fact, you can go to a bookstore, pick a book about any diet and begin to strictly follow it. We assure you, you will begin to lose weight. The problem is that as long as the chosen diet does not coincide with your lifestyle, you will not be able to follow through and be sure to frustrate s weight creep up again relentlessly. You need a diet with which you could live the rest of his life. If you're used to eating breakfast sandwiches, you will not want low-carb diet. If you can not stand the scrupulous counting calories, but you can follow certain rules - possible. Should think about the Atkins diet. If you like the olive oil, then your choice - the Mediterranean diet. If you really intend to lose weight, you first need to figure out their own habits.