Why Every Calorie Counts

February 4, 2010

Interview with Ken Sasse, M.D., author of the book Life-Changing Weight Loss: Feel More Energetic and Live a More Active Life with a Proven, Medically Based Weight Loss Program (Sasse Guide)

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Mike Carruthers:
Of course you know that losing weight isn’t easy, but…

Kent Sasse M.D.:
Just remember that every calorie you burn does count so it doesn’t need to be one hour solid of sweating at the gym on a fancy machine.
 

Dr. Kent Sasse, author of the book Life-Changing Weight Loss…

It actually counts to park farther away from your office front door and walk those extra steps. Each step does count and at the end of the day, well it might have only been a 5 or 10 calorie difference but multiple that out over the course of the whole year and you’ve got thousands of calories that you have just burned and that translates into pounds that you’ve lost.

In fact lots of little things can add up to eating fewer and burning more calories. For example…

Make a real hard and fast rule to yourself that you will always leave something on the plate. I know this is exactly what Mom told us not to do when we were growing up but it’s a rule that I find I can live with and it changes your mindset about how you approach the meal.

If you make food less convenient you’ll eat less of it. So Dr. Sasse recommends that just before you sit down to dinner…

But away all the leftovers, pack them up, put them back in the refrigerator so they’re not just sitting out tempting you. “Of course I’m going to eat that extra helping.” Instead you’d have to go through all the extra work of unpacking it again and serving yourself again and the reality is most of the time we just don’t do that.

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