Dieting versus Fasting (Health Tips)

Proper Dieting

Dieting and Fasting

Dieting is not a practice to skip any meal. A proper dieting should be followed with restricted food taken in proper time intervals. You can follow diet to maintain your health and body weight. Dieting does not reduce or increase weight. A healthy diet along with regular exercise will obviously help you in reducing or increasing your body weight. If you already have a good health and a physique, it is not that you need not required any diet restrictions or body work outs. Dieting and exercise can be pursued for the stability of your good health and weight.

To progress your health by weight loss, you can nurture your diet with any of the following dieting varieties that suits your health condition.

Dieting Categories

1. Fat-Less Diet
2. Calorie-Less Diet
3. Calorie-Very Less Diet
4. Carbohydrate-Less Diet

A detailed examination of various unsystematic subdued tryouts resulted in no disparity with the above said main dieting categories (Low-Fat, Low-Cal & Low-Carb). Dieting is not only advised for unhealthy or abnormal people. It is also suggested for people who are normal and already fit.

I.           Fat-Less Diet

The name itself mentioned the kind of dieting. It is nothing other than reducing the amount of fat content that you are consuming. Calorie intake is automatically reduced as there is reduction in fat consumption. If you are going to undertake this low fat diet for a period of one year, then you can have a moderate weight loss of about three kilograms.

II.         Calorie in Diet

Calorie is a unit of energy. It measures the amount of energy that a body gets from food that a particular person intakes. The calorie that your body requires depends on the nature of your every day work. If you are having a normal health, you can consume calories equal as that your body requires.

     A.   Calorie-Less Diet

Low calorie diet is making the amount of food intake lesser than the energy that your body requires. If you wish to reduce your body weight, you have to watch out the amount of calories you intake. By following low calorie diet, you can reduce up to 500 to 100 calories of energy consumption per day. As you abide by this diet, you can lose up to 0.5 to 1 kg of weight per week. You can lose an average of 10 percentage of your body weight in a year by regulating this diet.

     B.    Calorie-Very Less Diet

Very Low Calorie Diet is severe dieting technique that is not suggested for a common man. It is advised that people with more weight and those suffering from obesity must only try this. Even such ones must be regularly checked by the doctors to avoid any intricacy during this diet. In this diet 200 to 800 calories of energy is supplied per day. By this dieting, by taking protein food and evading calories from both fat and carbohydrates you can lose about 1.5 to 2.5 kg per week. In this cyclic dieting, only 200 calories is ingested first day, 400 calories second day, 600 calories third day, 800 calories and then the same cycle is repeated.

III.      Carbohydrate-Less Diet

 Low carbohydrate diet modifies the body metabolism. When there is less carbohydrate intake in food, your body generates the required amount of energy for doing your day to day works from fat that is already stored in it instead of converting glucose (from carb) to energy. This change in metabolism of your body has the benefit of spending more calories.

Role of Water in Diet

Water plays a main hole in dieting. A person is should intake an average of 2 liters of water per day. If you manage the time when you drink water and the amount you consume each time, you can reach a day’s limit.

Drink 250 ml of water in the early morning.

Drink 500 ml of water before each meal (breakfast, lunch and dinner).

Drink 250 ml of water before going to bed.

If you are doing exercises or do more energy losing works every day, then you must consume additional water according to the amount of work you do. Replacing energy filled drinks with energy free drinks will help in weight control.

Fasting and its effects

Fasting is different from dieting. Rather than maintaining a regular planned food chart with various nutritious foods like in dieting, fasting is avoiding food. Long term fasting is risky as it has the danger of making you lack of nutrition. Dieting helps to keep all parts of your body healthy and avoids only unwanted fat content from it. But fasting disturbs the functioning of your body parts. You can be fasting for a meal or hardly a day. But continuing it will affect not only your digestive system, but also all other parts of your body. And do not have a false opinion that you can lose weight if you are fasting. Digestive system regularly secretes enzymes that are necessary for digestion. When we skip a diet, these enzymes get converted to acid and create acidity in your stomach. Long term fasting or regular skipping of a meal every day will affect you seriously. If you are very particular in following fasting it can be substituted by different types of alternating fasting methods like avoiding a particular food variety or short term fasting with liquid substituent consumption to evade this concern.

Different types of alternating fasting methods represent getting transformed to herbivorous. Generally human are either omnivorous and few are even carnivorous. Those who eat only non-vegetarian are already fasting vegetables. We are not talking about such ones now. For those who wish to drop out weight or following religious diets can fast by becoming pure vegetarians (herbivorous) by avoiding any food from animal product like mutton, chicken, beef, pork, lamb, eggs, fish and dairy products. You can supplement it with fresh fruits, dry fruits, vegetables, seed, nuts, cereals, lentils and oil.

*Use limited (minimum) amount of oil as much OILY FOODS too spoil your diet.