When it comes to dieting, there are good choices and there are bad choices. The way you determine is how much stock in the calorie trade are you taking out when you choose to eat one item over another. For example, if you want to eat a small bag of chocolate chip cookies. We’ve all had that kind of craving and if you’re anything like me, the first time you’re not allowed to have a cookie, that’s when you want one the most.
Okay, you’re on your diet of eating healthy choices, but you are really craving those cookies. It’s okay, we all experience the cravings. If you really want to have them, then make a deal on the stock calorie trade in order to accommodate your craving.
How Does That Work?
For each small chocolate chip cookie that you eat, you have to walk briskly for ten minutes. That will burn off the excess 50 calories per cookie. So if you have six cookies, that’s 300 calories and 60 minutes of brisk walking.
Still craving those cookies?
What about a extra-value meal from a fast food restaurant? A nice big, thick cheeseburger with ecxtra large fries and a 24-ounce diet soda. The diet soda will offset the rest, right? Not by much. Your looking at 1500 calories square in the eye and unless you can run two and a half hours at a ten minute/mile pace – give it up.
No one wants to make that kind of diet debt trade with their caloric stock.
Why Tell You All This?
Because if you’re anything like me, you may get the cravings, but the minute you need to pay up in extra caloric burn – that craving gets washed away in a measure of UGH! I don’t want to do that!
When you start craving sweets in a huge way, drink a big glass of water. Add a slice of orange or a squeeze of lemon to it. More often than not, the craving will pass and you won’t have to add additional minutes to your exercise routine.