All Calories are NOT Equal

We have this thought that we need to count calories, but calories metabolize differently, depending on the source of that calorie. For example, a calorie from a candy bar will metabolize differently than a calorie from broccoli.

I'm very weary of these calorie counting diets. True, if you're eating a diet that is heavy in processed foods, you probably do have to watch calories because these foods are nutrition deplete or dead. Sure they're often fortified, but the bio-availablity is very low if at all. That means that we get minimal, if any, benefit from the vitamins.

If you're eating a diet rich in whole foods (at least 90% of your diet) and 70% of those foods are alkaline forming, calories become secondary. Your body will naturally crave what it needs and you will naturally lose the weight that many of us have been hanging on to for all these years.

A rule of thumb: if you feel like you are depriving yourself, chances are that you are following a diet that is not working on a sustainable basis.