Beware of "unnecessary" calories

See also: the less you eat the more you gain

An extra drop of wine, a can of coke at the restaurant, a sweet coffee in mid-afternoon, some oil added to the dishes without dosing it. All these apparently harmless gestures are clear examples of useless calories, whose intake opens wide for many the doors to overweight.

USELESS CALORIES 10 g of olive oil 90 Kcal if you do not dose the olive oil with a spoon it is easy to overdo the dose without realizing it 10 g of grated cheese 40 Kcal cheeses are high calorie foods. Excluding the lean ones such as cottage cheese or cottage cheese, generally their caloric content is between 300 and 500 kcal per hg 2 sugary coffees 62 Kcal in the example we considered the addition of an 8-gram sachet of sugar for coffee, replacing it with a "similar quantity of cane sugar, only 2 Kcal would be saved. 10 grams of pasta more 35 Kcal all in all modest quantity easy to reach if you don't weigh the pasta before cooking it; unfortunately the pasta is quite caloric but not very satiating if it is not combined with a little fat and protein 1 sweetened drink 130 Kcal sugary drinks are not as harmless as they seem, the addition of carbohydrates with a high glycemic index makes them particularly caloric and not very satiating 100 cl of wine 12% Vol. 66 Kcal alcohol also contains a certain amount of calories; the higher the concentration of the alcoholic beverage, the higher the calories; precisely 5.6 Kcal per alcohol content (Vol%) Whole milk instead of p. skimmed (400 ml) 72 Kcal an example of how many calories are "hidden" in the food that contains them. The taste is similar between the two types of milk but the calories are higher in the whole milk because it is richer in fat. The same goes for natural yogurt (50 kcal per 100 grams) and the fruit one (80-120 kcal per 100 grams) in which the excess of sugars dramatically increases the caloric intake. A couple of candies 10 Kcal this food provides approximately 4-8 calories per piece (excluding low-calorie candies which have almost no calorie content) A chocolate (10 g) 55 Kcal an extra chocolate per day compared to the caloric requirement, would make us gain weight about 2.5 kg per year TOTAL 560 kcal x 365 days = 207 320 Kcal / 7800 = 26.5 kg of fat gained per year YOU READ WELL! If every day we consumed 560 calories more than our needs we would risk gaining weight over 25 kg per year.

Looking at this table, even the most skeptical should realize how dangerous it is to pay little attention to what you eat. Normal daily gestures, which are often not given the right weight, can become the main culprits of our obesity.

If we add to all this occasional binges and meals made outside the home (for example canteen and restaurant), in which the dishes are often prepared by adding excessive quantities of condiments, the caloric surplus risks becoming really substantial.

This explains why some people do not understand their overweight.

"I eat so little and I'm fat ... I'm probably out of luck because I'm genetically predisposed to gain weight," is the obvious conclusion to many.

In reality, it is all about bad eating habits.

Unfortunately, a sedentary person consumes few calories during the day and it is really easy for them to take more than necessary. However, we must consider that without major sacrifices in terms of taste and palatability of food, it is possible to limit the damage by eliminating the so-called "useless calories", often hidden behind bad eating habits.

Nobody claims that the slingbar is used to weigh every single food, but the more sedentary a person is, the more the calorie constraint is important and at the same time difficult to respect. Different speech for a sportsman who can indulge in some more "dietary luxury", thanks to a metabolism and a caloric expenditure above average.