Counting Your Calories and Can't Avoid Eating Great Foodstuffs?

By George T Lee

It is rather unpleasant to wake up early in the morning, get to the kitchen, cooked up some bacon and eggs, brew some high grade coffee, cut up some slices sweet icing topped cakes for desert and prepare it on the table to find out or hear or fear that you are going over your calories intake for your breakfast! Then your spouse comes in and confirms it. Your nice and heavenly high-calorie breakfast to 'start the day right!' suddenly gets everyone's attention. Your spouse tells you, watch your health, your kids reconfirms it. Should you really watch your calories intake? Scientifically proven, yes, humanly justified, no.

The thing with us is, sometimes we are over fed with education from scientists, nutritionists and our friendly doctor next door about how and what we eat. Having a breakfast of bacon strips, toasts, coffee and with an icing filled cake slice may be over the 'allowed' calories for you depending on your built, weight, age and medical history. So you say, what then? Am I just have to go with a piece of toast with a slice of bacon and a cup of coffee then drive 2-3 hours to the city, drop of my kids at school and drive another hour to my office? Will that give me enough energy to be on a good start for the day? Well, you may not need to worry eating the breakfast you just made or you may. It is the attitude and way of life that needs to be considered and not just eating habits that gets linked to health problems.

Considering blue collar jobs and those executive in large office space, the danger of them all lies in different categories and not in the food they take. For instance, a construction worker need probably a quarter pounder hamburger with matching large size potato fries to get him the energy he needs for his work, while an executive who works in the large office could have the energy he needs with just a cheese burger and small fries for lunch. Are you the construction worker or the executive or none of the two?

 The issue here is the construction worker's calorie intake is way higher than the executive and both stays healthy. On the reverse, if the construction worker will have the lower calorie lunch while the executive has the high calorie one, both will have health problems! How? When you eat big, burn it big too! That's the simplest layman's explanation of why you should not be counting your calories when you eat.

Perhaps the most ideal lesson for us all in the current world environment situation (high pollution, global warming that causes unpredictable weathers) is physical activities associated with nutrition. That is why most middle aged or senior citizens nowadays take up 'less stressful exercises' like walking and walking. Walking at a comfortable pace burns calories as much as a teenager running around the park more than once. So it is not too late for anyone to 'take precautions' rather than take 'warnings' about what they want to eat or had eaten.