What’s your first reaction to weight loss? Cut your calories? Count calories of every single morsel you put in your mouth and make dutiful entries? Right?
Wrong!
A new study published in JAMA concluded that people who ate a good amount of vegetables and whole foods and reduced their intake of added sugars, refined grains and processed foods - without continuously counting their calories - lost a good amount of weight over the course of a year.
So what the research indicates is that it is the quality not quantity that counts.
This plan worked for all people irrespective of what type of diet they followed - low in carbs or low in fat, as per a report in the New York Times. The study stated that the weight loss numbers weren’t influenced by the genetics of the participants or the insulin-response of their bodies to carbohydrates.