Why Can't I Loose Weight?
Here is the no.1 answer as to why that is.
Recent studies have shown that despite what we think we eat in actual fact we eat a lot more. A group of dieters were given a 10 day course to follow. The first 5 days they had to video report what they ate the second 5 they had to write down exactly what they had eaten in a diary after every meal.
What they actually recorded was far from the real truth in more than two thirds of cases! Even in the written diaries after every meal, although being more accurate, the reported difference in calories was well in excess of 40% fewer than actually eaten.
Scientists discovered this by giving the group a special type of water was double labelled. Once drunk and passed through the body, a urine sample was taken at the end of each day and by analysing this in the laboratory, the exact number of calories can be worked out. It showed that when people recorded what they ate at the end of the day the stated amount of calories was around 1500.
Systematically writing down in the diary after every meal the calorie count was 2000 per day. Studies of the urine samples in the laboratory proved the real amount of calories consumed was much nearer to 3000!