Is it really not calories in that matters?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think eating high glycemic index foods spikes insulin which can more easily lead to weight gain than eating protein and good fat.

+1
I think there are two hypothesis for weigh gain.
1) Calorie in calories out .
2) Hormonal response and insulin spikes.
Most low carb people agree on number 2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can only eat Oreos all day and be skinny. You’ll be unhealthy and feel pretty gross... but if you’re looking to be skinny and not healthy it’s calories.

But if you wanted to limit yourself to 2,000 calories/day, you'd only be eating about 20 Oreos. Probably wont' get too fat from that.

Oreos have 53 calories per cookie. 70 in double stuff. This is easily Googleable info and the math is also elementary school level. You could eat 37 Oreos or 28 double stuff Oreos if you wanted to eat 2000 calories worth of Oreos. Not a good idea but a lot more than 20 cookies.

I don’t know about you, but I’d be hungry if all I ate was 12 Oreos per meal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can only eat Oreos all day and be skinny. You’ll be unhealthy and feel pretty gross... but if you’re looking to be skinny and not healthy it’s calories.

But if you wanted to limit yourself to 2,000 calories/day, you'd only be eating about 20 Oreos. Probably wont' get too fat from that.

Oreos have 53 calories per cookie. 70 in double stuff. This is easily Googleable info and the math is also elementary school level. You could eat 37 Oreos or 28 double stuff Oreos if you wanted to eat 2000 calories worth of Oreos. Not a good idea but a lot more than 20 cookies.

I don’t know about you, but I’d be hungry if all I ate was 12 Oreos per meal.

I'd probably eat 8 for breakfast, 12 for lunch, and 17 for dinner.

[Anonymous]

I counted the calories (whether they were considered healthy or not) and I lost 21 pounds in 3.5 months. Avocados may be healthy but they will make you gain weight!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I counted the calories (whether they were considered healthy or not) and I lost 21 pounds in 3.5 months. Avocados may be healthy but they will make you gain weight!

If you are on low carb you can eat a lot of avocado and lose weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I counted the calories (whether they were considered healthy or not) and I lost 21 pounds in 3.5 months. Avocados may be healthy but they will make you gain weight!

Avocados can and should be part of a calorie controlled diet. I lost 15 lbs this summer in ten weeks and I ate plenty of avocados as well as other foods that were high calorie. But I stopped eating each day when I got to my calorie limit.

[Anonymous]

What tends to bulk me is dairy. Carbs are high in my vegetarian diet and not an issue. But I’m also AA, with strong West African ancestry. Grains, beans, and other complex carbs have been staples for eons in that region. Dairy, not so much. When I eat plant based, no dairy, I see results immediately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I counted the calories (whether they were considered healthy or not) and I lost 21 pounds in 3.5 months. Avocados may be healthy but they will make you gain weight!

Avocados can and should be part of a calorie controlled diet. I lost 15 lbs this summer in ten weeks and I ate plenty of avocados as well as other foods that were high calorie. But I stopped eating each day when I got to my calorie limit.

Anything in excess can be problematic. But a nutrient dense food like avocado isn’t the source of our problems.

[Anonymous]

I 100% believe it is calorie in and calories out. I failed to lose weight for years because I couldn't admit that while I ate a "healthy" diet I was simply eating too much. People underestimate how many calories they consume and over estimate calories they burn.

The reason people lose weight when they cut carbs isn't because carbs are bad or make you fat but because they eat less calories. It's very easy to over eat the white stuff much more difficult to overeat broccoli. Now if you could manage to eat 4000cal/day of broccoli then you would gain weight from broccoli.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I 100% believe it is calorie in and calories out. I failed to lose weight for years because I couldn't admit that while I ate a "healthy" diet I was simply eating too much. People underestimate how many calories they consume and over estimate calories they burn.

The reason people lose weight when they cut carbs isn't because carbs are bad or make you fat but because they eat less calories. It's very easy to over eat the white stuff much more difficult to overeat broccoli. Now if you could manage to eat 4000cal/day of broccoli then you would gain weight from broccoli.

I totally agree.

[Anonymous]

also wanted to add that a calorie is nothing more than a unit of energy. Use all the energy you consume/need you stay the same weight. Burn more energy than you consume and your body will burn fat or muscle to make up the difference. Consume excess energy that your body doesn't need right now and it will store that energy for later in the form of fat or muscle if you are lifting weights.

Every diet causes you to lose weight by the same mechanism- consuming fewer calories than you need and burn fat and some muscle. There are 1000 ways to do this in the form of all the diets out there, but at the end of they day they are all the same. There is no right or magic diet for everyone, the right diet is the one that works for the individual who can stick with it for the rest of their life so as not to regain the weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I 100% believe it is calorie in and calories out. I failed to lose weight for years because I couldn't admit that while I ate a "healthy" diet I was simply eating too much. People underestimate how many calories they consume and over estimate calories they burn.

The reason people lose weight when they cut carbs isn't because carbs are bad or make you fat but because they eat less calories. It's very easy to over eat the white stuff much more difficult to overeat broccoli. Now if you could manage to eat 4000cal/day of broccoli then you would gain weight from broccoli.

I totally agree.

The leading soda company paid researchers to come up for this conclusion.
Lower carb people eat more calories and lose weight.
Personally I eat more calories mostly good fats and lose weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a complex question and no one really knows the answer. We still rely on studies done in the 1890s that determined how many calories are in a gram of fat, protein or carbohydrate. Understanding how a food contributes to your body composition is really almost impossible. It’s likely a combination of genetics, environment, hormones, medications and bacteria. Also labels are not accurate (calorie and nutrient contact can be drastically off). I’ve worked in nutrition for 20 years - 10 years in a clinical setting and ten in a sports setting. I’ll be the first to admit we know very little about nutrition other than some real basics:

1. Eat whole foods- try to avoid foods that have been processed, had nutrients stripped or nutrients added. If you are trying to get lean, put the focus on lean proteins, vegetables, fruit and, to a lesser extent, whole grains.

2. Drink less alcohol

3. Try to get enough sleep for your body.

4. Exercise

5. Try intermittent fasting.

6. Find things to celebrate about your body and stop worrying so much about fitting in to a certain standard. It’s a huge waste of time and energy. I think that will help in two ways - it will free you from the time suck of dieting and, hopefully, allow you to enjoy your food more. Taking the worry out of eating allows you to eat more intuitively, enjoy your meals and not feel like overeating.

I hope some of this helps!

This is the best response. I would add specifically to avoid wheat and sugar as much as possible, and that exercise should include some heart-pounding cardio and lifting heavy weights.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can only eat Oreos all day and be skinny. You’ll be unhealthy and feel pretty gross... but if you’re looking to be skinny and not healthy it’s calories.

But if you wanted to limit yourself to 2,000 calories/day, you'd only be eating about 20 Oreos. Probably wont' get too fat from that.

Oreos have 53 calories per cookie. 70 in double stuff. This is easily Googleable info and the math is also elementary school level. You could eat 37 Oreos or 28 double stuff Oreos if you wanted to eat 2000 calories worth of Oreos. Not a good idea but a lot more than 20 cookies.

I don’t know about you, but I’d be hungry if all I ate was 12 Oreos per meal.

l would probably vomit. So gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I 100% believe it is calorie in and calories out. I failed to lose weight for years because I couldn't admit that while I ate a "healthy" diet I was simply eating too much. People underestimate how many calories they consume and over estimate calories they burn.

The reason people lose weight when they cut carbs isn't because carbs are bad or make you fat but because they eat less calories. It's very easy to over eat the white stuff much more difficult to overeat broccoli. Now if you could manage to eat 4000cal/day of broccoli then you would gain weight from broccoli.

I totally agree.

The leading soda company paid researchers to come up for this conclusion.
Lower carb people eat more calories and lose weight.
Personally I eat more calories mostly good fats and lose weight.

Nah. I don’t think any of defy the law of thermodynamics