Calories Intake vs. Calories Out

When we begin to learn about diet, at first many people say that diet is to regulate your eating patterns, but it does not mean not eating at all or only eat once a day. Then the next is the basic knowledge that if you want to lose weight, the only way is to create conditions that calorie consumption is smaller in number than calories out. is it really like that? Apparently the answer is OF COURSE NOT, and this can actually gain weight!


You still believe that you can lose weight if more calories out than calories intake? Let's look at this example. Feathers weighing 1 ounce and stones which is also weighing 1 ounce, dropped together in a vacuum. Which will reach the bottom first? Both will reach the bottom because both have the same weight. But let's do the same experiment but this time not in a vacuum but dropped from top of buildings. With the same weight, which will reach the ground first? Surely the stone isn't it?

Why stones could fall first?? That's because there are so-called "Air Resistance" where the air can put a halt to the feathers fall to the ground. Now back again to the issue of calories, indeed if tested in the lab, all calories are calories and if calories out greater than the calories intake, then the result is weight loss. This is the same as the test we did in the vacuum. No other factors in an experiment in the lab. But when we test the calories intake form food to our bodies, in fact our metabolism will be affected by many factors that are not visible to the eye as the air in the case of feather and the rock drop from building.

How calories burning process in the body ?

Our bodies burn calories consistently continuously at all times, even when we sleep though. Therefore, if the calories quickly enter into the body in a short time it will make the amount of excess calories intake to the body jumped and will be used as needed, the excess will be stored as fat.  

For example, we drink soda with number 100 calories, calories will give an injection into the body quickly because the soda contains simple carbohydrates which are very easily absorbed by the body. But we appeal to consume sweet potatoes with the same number of  100 calories, but it is a complex carbohydrate, which requires much longer process of absorption, the body will absorb the calories from sweet potatoes slowly so there is no surge of excess calories intake and there is no calories which converted into fat.

From this we can conclude, that the most important in the diet is not the number of calories but type of calories we consume. Not all calories are made equal. In the laboratory, a calorie is a calorie, but our bodies are machines with different instruction and will process the calories of different foods in different ways as well. Therefore consider the TYPE of calories you consume!  

Read my article about Metabolism Influence for Fat Burning to understand more about our body's metabolism .