The Volumetrics Eating Plan: Techniques and Recipes for Feeling Full on Fewer Calories
One of the biggest problems for people who follow weight loss plans is that they feel hungry and fall off the diet. Most always they eat something that isn’t allowed on the plan or takes them above their calorie or point allowance, they then feel guilty, get frustrated and give up completely. It is one of the greatest catch 22′s for dieters – You have to eat less calories and burn more calories to create a 3500 calorie deficit which will help you lose one measly pound. Then repeat this over and over until you’ve lost as much as you want to lose.
The claim of the Volumetrics Eating Plan a book by nutritionist Barbara Rolls is “Quit “dieting” for good. Feel full on fewer calories. Lose weight and keep it off while eating satisfying portions of delicious, nutritious foods.” Barbara says we should stop dieting and choose foods that offer more bang for less calories. She does this by showing you how to calculate a food’s “energy density” – or the concentration of calories within a given food’s serving size. By choosing foods with low energy density you can consume more foods which will help you feel fuller faster and longer. The trick here is that you can actually eat more but the catch is you have to eat foods that are low in calories and low in energy density.
Foods that are energy dense will have a lot of calories in a small package so low density foods which are often water-based like fruits, vegetables and soups can be consumed in greater volumes than high density items filled with sugar and fat like candy and cookies.
The Volumetrics Eating Plan includes hundreds of easy to follow eating plans and recipes and includes several ideas so you can learn how to add low density foods to change your favourite dishes into Volumetrics friendly ones.
Experts love the Volumetrics plan and even Consumer Reports praised it as the “best overall diet” in its June 2007 issue where they tested it and found that it had the “best overall weight loss of any diet evaluated.”
Critics of the book say the plan covers the same material found in other diets and programs which are basically increase your fruit and vegetable intake, decrease your fat intake and generally watch what you eat and how much you eat. Not the ground breaking diet plan of the century by common sense and that is why it is one of the diets that work.
The best weight loss tip you will ever hear (and you’ve probably heard them all before) are eat more fruits and vegetables, track your progress and increase your physical activity. So if you are looking for some ideas on how to eat better, you may want to check out the ideas in the Volumetrics Eating Plan.
