Calories!!!!!

pinkprincess1952

Are Calories Bad for You?
Calories aren't bad for you. Your body needs calories for energy. But eating too many calories — and not burning enough of them off through activity — can lead to weight gain.

Most foods and drinks contain calories. Some foods, such as lettuce, contain few calories (1 cup of shredded lettuce has less than 10 calories). Other foods, like peanuts, contain a lot of calories (½ cup of peanuts has 427 calories).

You can find out how many calories are in a food by looking at the nutrition facts label. The label also will describe the components of the food — how many grams of carbohydrate, protein, and fat it contains.

Here's how many calories are in 1 gram of each:

•carbohydrate — 4 calories
•protein — 4 calories
•fat — 9 calories
That means if you know how many grams of each one are in a food, you can calculate the total calories. You would multiply the number of grams by the number of calories in a gram of that food component. For example, if a serving of potato chips (about 20 chips) has 10 grams of fat, 90 calories are from fat. That's 10 grams x 9 calories per gram.

Should we count calories?

***** Well I am done counting calories, I will still list what I eat, but I exercise on a daily basis and I eat healthy on a daily basis or at least I try too... And yet I stay at the same weight and cant lose... I just read an article that said there a few other causes that you have no control over why someone cant lose weight and I am over it... This chick is done counting calories and I am gonna eat normal and exercise normal and eat when I am hungry and not eat when I am not... I am so over it.....

KrysGettinFit

I think counting calories really helps me. It helped me really see where all of my weight was coming from. There were times when I thought I was eating healthy (100 calorie packs etc) but I wasn't getting enough of the "good" calories, Like fruits and veggies etc. (Which I am still working on incorporating more into my diet)...but everyone is different.

Swizzle1986

For the most part it just makes you aware of your choices.