In the Huffington Post (the American edition), a series of articles in recent times emphasize the futility of a diet that focuses on the calories of foods rather than their quality. Toby Nwazor, motivational coach , and Sophia Herbst, author of articles on fitness, explain the reasons why counting the calories of food allows us to reduce the quantity, but does not tell us anything about the quality of the food. I totally agree.

If you want to lose weight, a balanced and nutritious diet (which Nwazor defines as a dynamic diet , i.e. based on the type of food and not on calories), combined with movement, physical activity, are the best solution for you, while a low-calorie diet, protracted for a long time, it can make you lose weight but also weaken your body, slow down your metabolism, cause endless health problems, including damage to the thyroid gland.

A few days at 1200 calories , a week or two, certainly do not slow down the metabolism: but if what we want is a toned and fit body, we must preserve and indeed nourish our lean mass.
As  Sophia Herbst points out, a toned body is a muscular body. It is impossible to have tonicity without also having muscles and a normal diet should travel on average about two thousand calories.
If our diet is nutritious, that is, complete with everything it needs between macro and micronutrients, it will not be fattening, explains Nwazor. There will always be room for a small piece of cake or some chocolate, but we basically eat to nourish our body.Two thousand calories of sweets and junk food are not comparable to two thousand calories of fruit, vegetables, quality proteins, quality fats, whole grains.