I was interested to read Why those oh-so-healthy diet foods make us eat even more in the Mail Online which tells us that people who are on diets to lose weight can eat just as many calories as they would if they were not on a diet even though they are eating healthier food.

It reminded me of a good friend of mine who, when on a diet, thought he could eat as many crispbreads as he wanted. Even though I tried to explain that it was not what he ate but the amount of calories he consumed that make him put on weight, he still could not understand. He had it in his head that chocolate, biscuits and cakes made him fat but crispbreads, apples and other so called diet food would not make him put on weight. Needless to say, he did not succeed in losing weight.

Unfortunately, the simple truth is, if you eat more calories than your body uses up in energy then you will put on weight. Your body does not care where those calories come from. If it cannot use the calories up then it stores them as fat. Eat just one more apple than you need each day and at the end of the year you could put on more than 7lbs of fat.

The lesson to be learned is to eat healthy food but not to eat too much of it!

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