Do you put dressing on your salad?

But, what one puts on a salad may be problematic. Salad dressings can have as many as three hundred calories per tablespoonful. Furthermore, these are calories from dangerous fats or in some cases even sugars. Whichever, or both, their introduction into one’s system not only adds unnecessary calories, but also impedes the efficient burning of carbohydrates and proteins,

Other additions may be part of the salad-eaters options as well.These can be anything from grated cheese to croutons to bacon bits. All of these have excess calories, which should really be carefully scrutinized if not completely avoided. However, they are most often forgotten about as if they were a mere sprinkling of pepper.

Most often, the justifying argument for ignoring these additions

is that even with dressing and garnish, the person eating a salad is still better off than his or her counterpart who is eating a hamburger with fries. Possibly this can seem to be by as much as five hundred calories, which over a weeks period of time is likely to result in the loss of one pound. If there were no other dietary deviations at other points throughout the day and if the salad topping were carefully calculated, this might make some good sense.

But, people generally do not give this much thought to eating. Nor do they cut back continually in a day while increasing their exercise. Instead, they use presumed calorie savings at lunch to justify an extra dinner roll, or a portion of dessert, which they know they should not have. The same becomes true for after dinner exercise. This becomes seemingly unnecessary as sacrifices had already been made beforehand at lunch.

Unthinking episodes such as these cause people to take

it far easier on themselves than they could or should. Doing so in theory enables them to believe that they will in fact lose excess poundage as if by magic. But, this never occurs and everyone except them can see that it never will.

These are harsh words to most people’s ears nowadays. We all have come to believe in taking it easy–resting and relaxing as much as we can. This is a permissive mind set which we feel to be in our best interests. This is largely because it is so often talked about by friends, relatives and neighbors. Furthermore, the medical establishment encourages it in the supposed interests of prolonging life.

But the truth remains that unthinking relaxation of weight loss parameters such as fifteen hundred calories per day along with an hour of continual exercise will only result in eventual obesity and all of the ills that are commonly associated with it. Moreover, unthinking additions such as salad dressing, croutons and bacon bits at lunch can and most likely will surreptitiously raise one’s daily calorie level from fifteen hundred to two thousand, or more.