Socializing with my friends usually involve food. Though we usually do something active (usually bowling) prior to dinner, the intensity of our activity is so low, it does not cancel out the 1,500 – 2,000 calories meal. These are the strategies I am going to try to decrease the amount I am eating when I am with friends.

There are two considerations we must not overlook when losing weight. They are calorie intake and the nutritional quality of the food. Woman should eat around 1500 calories while men should eat around 2500 calories. If you ever calorie counted before this may require intensive work.

If you aim to be on a daily diet of 1500 calories, you should plan to get about 900 calories a day from grains, fruits and vegetables. Spinach, at 13 calories in 2 cups of chopped raw spinach, is one of the lowest cost sources of nutrition you can give your body. It fortifies your body with folic acid as well. Learn More at the blog!

Chris blogs about a healthy low calorie diet. I don't recommend so many carbs (check out the comments for our discussion). Nevertheless it's an appealing post with good pictures and tips.

Calories do count. But they are not the only thing that counts. The person that eats a 1500 calorie diet of tuna and green vegetables will look considerably better than the person who eats a 1500 calorie diet of soda and bacon....even if they weigh the same amount.

A Paleolithic-style diet, popularly known as a Paleolithic diet, paleo diet, caveman diet, Stone Age diet or hunter-gatherer diet, is a contemporary diet regime, consisting of commonly available modern foods, that emulates the diet of wild plants and animals that humans and their close relatives habitually consumed during the Paleolithic (the Old Stone Age), a period of about 2 million years duration, ending about 10,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens invented agriculture. Deriving from the field of evolutionary nutrition, this dietary concept is based on the premise that modern humans are genetically adapted to the diet of their Paleolithic ancestors and that human genetics have scarcely changed since the dawn of agriculture, and therefore that an ideal diet is one that would resemble such an ancestral diet.Proponents of this nutritional approach differ in their dietary prescriptions, but all agree that people today should eat mainly meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, roots and nuts, and avoid grains, legumes, dairy products, salt and processed fat and sugar. They argue that modern human populations subsisting on traditional diets similar to those of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers seem to be largely free of diseases of affluence, and that such diets produce beneficial health outcomes in controlled medical studies. Supporters point to several potentially therapeutic nutritional characteristics of preagricultural diets. Critics of this dietary approach have taken issue with its underlying evolutionary logic, and have disputed certain dietary prescriptions on the grounds that they pose health risks and may not reflect real Paleolithic diets. They also argue that such diets are not a realistic alternative for everyone, and that meat-based diets are not environmentally sustainable.