Why should you count kilocalories in products? And who needs it most? .. Usually, by counting the kilocalories in products, women begin to actively engage in slimming. They calculate how many calories are contained in cookies, in milk, in kiwi and even in sauerkraut! In coffee and tea, it turns out, there is also some amount of these ill-fated calories! So what are calories (or kilocalories)? From the school course of physics, we know that calorie is the energy that is needed to heat 1 liter of water per 1 degree Celsius. Caloric content of products is determined by burning out in a special oven, and the heat dissipated is counted and measured in kilocalories. By the way, one kilocalorie (kcal) contains 1000 calories (cal). The more energy is required to heat the product, the more caloric. This means that such a product will not only give us more energy, but will also be deposited under the skin in the form of hateful fat folds. As an example, you can bring a high-calorie cookie. Therefore, calculating calorie content is important for both losing weight and keeping weight on one level. 
How to calculate how much kcal you need?
There is such a simple formula - the desired weightmultiply by 28. For example, if you want to weigh 50 kg, then you need to eat 1400 calories per day (now calories can be written both kcal and feces, remember that the same thing is meant). This, of course, is a very approximate figure, in the calculation does not take either the level of a person's physical load, nor his eating habits. But the fact remains - for slimming, the amount of calories eaten should be less than the amount spent. 
How many kilocalories are contained in the most common foods
I must say that the number of kilocalories inproducts have long been calculated. There are special calorie tables where it is prescribed how many kcal your body will receive when consumed, for example, 1 cup of coffee or 3 kiwi ... There are even programs where you can enter the desired weight and get a ready calculation of how much and what foods you need to eat within a day. Will also write an approximate diet for a week or a month. But you can count the number of calories yourself, so that each day you can diversify your menu. Next, we will give examples in which the amount of calories will be shown per 100 grams of the product. Macaroni helps to lose weight? Most recently, pasta was considered a very high-calorie food, they were advised not to use for weight loss, because these foods contain solid carbohydrates, and their eating is a direct way to weight gain. And now look: in boiled macaroni (100 g) contains approximately 160 kcal. That is, a person can eat for lunch at no less than 200 grams of boiled macaroni, without fear for his waist. Of course, if the other products will contain a tolerable amount of calories. Moreover, on macaroni you can even lose weight! The famous Italian actress Sophia Loren tells that she loved spaghetti all her life, and despite this, her figure for many years was considered a model of beauty and harmony. After all, macaroni contain useful carbohydrates. The main danger is that we water them with various sauces and gravies. And they sometimes contain a lot of calories. You do not even need to make an accurate calculation, just take low-calorie sauces). How many kilocalories contain different types of bread. Since we have started talking about flour products, we must first mention bread. Of course, bread and biscuits are different things, but they are very similar in calorie content. Products from different varieties of flour contain so many different calories that the calculation of the daily ration should be made only considering what kind of product you are going to eat. How many pieces of bread should I take for lunch? If this is a bun for a hot dog, then remember that in 100 grams it contains about 300 calories, whereas a dietary roll with bran is only 150 calories. Rye bread gives us about 180 calories, so at dinner it is quite possible to afford a piece or two. And if you are a sports lover and are engaged in intensive physical exercises, then you will not hurt a few bits. For weight loss, dieticians advise completely to exclude white bread and eat only gray or black, and even in small quantities. And what do nutritionists think about cookies? Now let's figure out with such tasty and often consumed food as a cookie. These products from flour and all kinds of additives, too, contain a different number of calories. Usual cookies from white flour contain about 420 kcal! Here it is, the enemy for our thin waist! Therefore, cookies should be eaten, as they say, on big holidays and in small quantities. And if you like to make tea every evening, and love cookies, then you will not get any weight loss. Let's see, is there any way out for those who like cookies? For example, you can take oatmeal cookies, 100 grams of which contains 400 calories. How much should you eat this product to lose weight? Will you say that this is impossible? But no, there is a diet for oatmeal cookies! This is a Hollywood diet cookie diet. The fact is that oatmeal is absorbed completely, giving a person a lot of useful microelements and vitamins. Nutritionists say that if you eat 1 biscuit and a glass of tea for breakfast, then your waist will not be threatened ... And what about honey and sugar? How many calories are in honey and sugar? We are accustomed to measuring these two products with tea and table spoons, therefore we will speak about kilocalories in terms of spoons. So, honey contains: 22 and 64 kcal (respectively in a teaspoonful and a tablespoon), and in sugar - 16 and 46. Did you feel the difference? In honey, there are more calories than in sugar. Therefore, use honey for weight loss with great care. Sometimes a person is advised to put honey instead of sugar. This is wrong from many points of view.
Use of cereals and seeds in food
For weight loss, diets based onon buckwheat. How many calories does this wonderful product contain? It all depends on the method of preparation. If you are garnishing, then in friable buckwheat there will be 153 feces, but liquid porridge-mash on the water will already contain 90 cal. If you add cooked buckwheat butter or milk, the calories will, of course, be more, and the calculation will need to be remade. How much buckwheat, and how much water or milk to take, it is necessary to decide, based on the total calorie, which you have outlined for weight loss. Girls who like all kinds of diets are always interested in information about rice. Rice diets have always been popular. You should know that boiled rice contains 113 calories, but the viscous rice porridge on the water is 78 calories. As for the fashionable brown rice today, boiled contains 101 calories, that is, white rice is a little caloric. Separately, it should be said about seeds, as about plant products, in which there is a lot of protein. In seeds also a large amount of fat and vitamins. Therefore, uncontrolled eating of all your favorite product can affect your weight. You need to know that in sunflower seeds you will find as much as 610 cal! And in pumpkin seeds, not much less - 580, so be careful! 
Calorie protein products
Protein in large quantities is contained in theseproducts: in meat, fish, eggs, chicken, milk, cheese and cottage cheese. In the sausage, too, there is some protein, but it is much less than in natural products. If we are talking about cereals - rice or buckwheat, which are traditionally related to carbohydrates, then they contain protein. See how many calories are contained in the following foods to decide how much per day you need specifically for you. In fish - sturgeon balyk "pulls" at 194 kcal, but flounder - 103 kcal, almost 2 times less. Therefore, the calculation should always be done according to the table. Now let's talk about cheese. This product is loved by many, include it in your diet. Judge for yourself about its calorie content: 100 grams of Dutch cheese already 352 calories, and in Cheddar cheese and even more - 379 calories. Therefore, if you are thinking about cheese - to include it in your diet or not, just remember that it is very caloric. Now about the chicken. This product is considered dietary (in boiled form). In the chicken, white meat is more appreciated (there is less fat). As for the numbers, 170 cal is contained in 100 grams of boiled chicken. In milk, as the most common protein product, contains 44 cal (at 1.5% fat content), but in condensed milk - as much as 272! If we talk about cottage cheese, then its different types differ in caloric content. In fat cottage cheese (18%) 232 are found, in curds of medium fatness - 159, and in skim curd - 88 kcal. Speaking of an egg, this is also a great source of protein. In one hard boiled egg, you will find 160 calories. Conventionally, protein products can be classified as sausages and sausages, but there are so many fat and additives that it is not necessary to talk about the benefits of these products. On the energy value, judge for yourself - in the sausage "is" 332 calories per 100 g of product.
Energy value of fruits and vegetables
First, let's look at how many calories are containedin the vinaigrette. This salad, consisting of beets, carrots, potatoes and vegetable oil (these are its main ingredients) can give us a lot of energy. In the vinaigrette contains 92 calories, it is very good to serve garnish for meat dishes. If you add more oil, then the calories in the vinaigrette will be more, it will be more nutritious. In sauerkraut (which is often added to vinaigrette) according to the table is only 19 cal. But in this sauerkraut so much useful substances that it must be included in the daily diet. On cabbage, especially sauerkraut, a lot of diets are built. You, for example, know that it is in the sauerinous variety of this product that more vitamin C is contained than in the moist one? The whole point is that during the preparation of sauerkraut, they are shredded and mixed with salt. This is what keeps vitamin C for a long time. Women are often interested in calories in kiwi, tomato, orange, mandarin, banana, apple. Here are the exact figures: in kiwi (calculation for 100 g.) 51, in tomato 23, in orange 40, mandarin - 40, in banana 89, and in apple 51 (note, in apple and kiwi an equal amount of feces, as well as and tangerine and orange). Kiwi in general is a very interesting product. Kiwi appeared on the Russian market much later than the apples we used. The taste of kiwi, similar to strawberry, plus a large number of vitamins made it a product that is part of different diets. Kiwi is well absorbed by the body. When you make a meal plan, include kiwi!
Kilocalories in various fluids
What about soup and borscht?There are 49 calories in potato soup, and 23 in borscht. But there are so many varieties of soups that always check the table, do not estimate the calorie content "by eye". Sometimes people are tormented by the question - are there calories in the water? The answer is negative! Water does not contain any calories. But vodka has 235 kcal, so you need to think carefully before "knocking over" the pile. Everyone is interested in the calorie intake of coffee and whether there are calories in tea. The fact is that there are diets where coffee is the basis. Coffee with condensed milk and sugar will give you 312 calories, but coffee with condensed milk. cream and sugar - already 374! Black coffee gives only 7 kcal, and tea with sugar - 28 kcal. So drinks can also be a source of excess weight. Always pay attention to the details - whether there is sugar in tea or coffee, whether cream is added to the coffee (cream in tea also dramatically increases the nutritional value). And if you are serious about losing weight, then there should be no additives in either tea or coffee!
