Low calorie density foods

Lowering calories in your food can be done differently. One is to take any food you want and eat just a little of it. Another way is to choose foods that, ounce for ounce, contain fewer calories, it's called low calorie density of foods. Strangely as it is, these foods take less calories not only to fill in a bowl but to make you feel full.

A classical example: the same calorie are found in 10 grapes and 10 raisins but the grapes will satisfy your hunger sooner so you consume less calories.

Are lowering calories the best way of dieting? It depends. If you need to use all your willpower to stay on a reduced calorie diet, it most probably will fail. The matter is, feeling hunger makes your body resist your actions and get into the starvation mode where fat burning becomes very difficult and your metabolism goes down leaving you out of energy.

On the other hand, if you feel full faster on a diet of low calorie density foods or if your appetite is reduced to start with, as on a low carbohydrate diet, you most probably will succeed.