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Anonymous wrote:Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

anything that counts calories burned through exercise is highly inaccurate.

Agree with this. The estimates for calorie burn from exercise are all over the place and highly inaccurate. The treadmills at my gym show calorie burn, but one of the trainers told me the other day that the calorie burn is based on a 28-year-old, 180 pound man. That’s not me.

Consider exercise what you do for your health, but when it comes to wait loss, it’s about what you eat and how much. Most people over-estimate how many calories they are burning and under-estimate how much they are eating.

Track calories using My Fitness Pal or another app. For a few weeks, track every bite you put in your mouth to get an accurate handle on how many calories you are actually taking in. What you are eating makes a difference - not just what, but how much. The person who mentioned nibbling while making kids’ lunches is right - it’s the sneaky calories that add up. It doesn’t have to be french fries and candy bars, you can gain wait from healthy food too, if you are eating too much of it.

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Anonymous wrote:Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

I think if you want to lose 1 pound a week, which is a healthy weight loss, you cut out 500 calories a day. Or you workout and lose 500 calories. It's not that easy to workout and lose 500 calories a day.

McDonald's french fries, size small are around 400 calories.

Two cans of coke are around 400 calories.

Two candy bars are around 400 calories.

A microwave popcorn is around 300 calories.

Those are easy to cut out for people who eat like that but what women in DCUMlandia are drinking regular coke or eating TWO CANDY BARS a day?

Maybe new moms are snacking while they prepare their children's lunches, not necessarily on unhealthy foods. The extra 500 calories a day has to come from some caloric intake (food) or a caloric reduction (exercise). It's just not that easy to exercise off 500 calories a day through exercise.

And you would be surprised how many people are actually eating a Snickers candy bar stashed in the freezer. Or they're eating a bag of potato chips they pick up at CVS. You're just not seeing them eating. They'll eat the entire box of Girl Scout cookies. Can't eat just one potato chip or one Girl Scout cookie.

I have an obese BMI and I promise I would never eat any of that. Ever.

Obviously I eat more than I need to eat to maintain a healthy weight. But my God, no, it’s not Coke, Snickers, potato chips. It’s too much of the healthy made-from-scratch food I serve to my family because I’m hungry for it. Because my hormones are triggering calorie compensation.

Same! I'm 170 lbs at 5'5 and I never drink soda juice and alcohol is rarely like once a month. Candy bars? Never. Sometimes I have a piece of dark chocolate after dinner. There's no Frappuccino addiction to cut out. I have to measure freaking teaspoons of olive oil on my roasted vegetables to lose weight. It's a cruel joke.

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Anonymous wrote:Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

I think if you want to lose 1 pound a week, which is a healthy weight loss, you cut out 500 calories a day. Or you workout and lose 500 calories. It's not that easy to workout and lose 500 calories a day.

McDonald's french fries, size small are around 400 calories.

Two cans of coke are around 400 calories.

Two candy bars are around 400 calories.

A microwave popcorn is around 300 calories.

Those are easy to cut out for people who eat like that but what women in DCUMlandia are drinking regular coke or eating TWO CANDY BARS a day?

A better idea is to cut out 5 glasses of wine (for those who have a glass with dinner). That's over 500 calories.

Did you know there’s debate of how well the human body can even metabolize alcohol calories? Safe to say cutting wine won’t yield as much benefit as you think and certainly not 1:1 with food calories.

This is such dangerously inaccurate advice, shame on you. Cutting alcohol WILL yield terrific results for health because alcohol is essentially poison with zero nutritional value and well established links to many kinds of cancer as well as heart disease. Anyone trying to reduce weight and improve health should absolutely begin with purging alcohol from their regular diet. Period.

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Anonymous wrote:For some people, maybe it's about portion control of healthy foods. However, if you at two cups of green beans instead of one cup, I don't think that would cause an increase in calories.

There has to be something else, like eating larger portions of food higher in calories, like higher in saturated fat.

Yes, of course, it’s all calories in/calories out. Of course an extra 50 calories of sautéed green beans is a factor, but so is everything else.

It’s just incredibly stupid to think you’ve found some brilliant life hack in the form of “stop eating 2 snickers bars a day!”

Anyone who has struggled with weight more than a few months already knows that. And they are most likely also fighting their body’s natural inclination toward calorie compensation.

No, it is not all calories in/out. You appear stuck in the 90s, having ignored all the advances in endocrinology, obesity research and neuroscience of the last 25 years. I highly recommend re-educating yourself from the brainwashing you are parroting here, or at least just shutting up with the calories in/out mantra you are parroting.

Start here, and for the assertion you need to get over, you can skip ahead to 35:00. And don’t for one minute come back here and tell us you are more knowledgeable on human metabolism than Dr. Lustig and his colleagues working in the field. Don’t let the big science-y words scare you, I’m sure you are up to the task of expanding your women’s magazines understanding of the topics discussed here: https://youtu.be/dFOaBrujDHo

500 calories a day is a lot! Particularly if you don’t eat candy or drink your calories.

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Anonymous wrote:For some people, maybe it's about portion control of healthy foods. However, if you at two cups of green beans instead of one cup, I don't think that would cause an increase in calories.

There has to be something else, like eating larger portions of food higher in calories, like higher in saturated fat.

Yes, of course, it’s all calories in/calories out. Of course an extra 50 calories of sautéed green beans is a factor, but so is everything else.

It’s just incredibly stupid to think you’ve found some brilliant life hack in the form of “stop eating 2 snickers bars a day!”

Anyone who has struggled with weight more than a few months already knows that. And they are most likely also fighting their body’s natural inclination toward calorie compensation.

My point was, if your plate starts out with one cup of steamed plain green beans (not sauteed in butter or olive oil), and you overeat the steamed green beans, that's not going to be a lot of extra calories.

Instead of sauteeing the green beans in butter or oil, you can steam them and season them with no salt seasonings.

If you struggle with portion control, have you tried those portion control plates? Or tried weighing and measuring food? I tried that once, and I was completely surprised by how much a 1/4 cup actually is. Or how much 2 tablespoons actually is. It really makes a difference.

So do you know what calorie compensation is, or not? Because you seem to be missing the point and pushing sad old diet culture tropes instead.

DP. Based on a quick Google search, you don’t seem to be using that phrase in the say that studies from, e.g. NIH use it. Are you sure you know what it means?

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Anonymous wrote:You cut 3500 calories from what?

From your 7000, 20000, 50000?

Do you think it matters?

You cut 3500 calories a week, or 500 calories a day, from either eating less or exercising more. And yes, it matters. You will lose 1 pound a week.

So you don’t think it matters how many calories you eat.

So if I normally eat 28000 calories a week but cut 3500 and my sister normally eats 14000 calories a week but also cut 3500 we both lose weight at the same rate?

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Anonymous wrote:For some people, maybe it's about portion control of healthy foods. However, if you at two cups of green beans instead of one cup, I don't think that would cause an increase in calories.

There has to be something else, like eating larger portions of food higher in calories, like higher in saturated fat.

Yes, of course, it’s all calories in/calories out. Of course an extra 50 calories of sautéed green beans is a factor, but so is everything else.

It’s just incredibly stupid to think you’ve found some brilliant life hack in the form of “stop eating 2 snickers bars a day!”

Anyone who has struggled with weight more than a few months already knows that. And they are most likely also fighting their body’s natural inclination toward calorie compensation.

My point was, if your plate starts out with one cup of steamed plain green beans (not sauteed in butter or olive oil), and you overeat the steamed green beans, that's not going to be a lot of extra calories.

Instead of sauteeing the green beans in butter or oil, you can steam them and season them with no salt seasonings.

If you struggle with portion control, have you tried those portion control plates? Or tried weighing and measuring food? I tried that once, and I was completely surprised by how much a 1/4 cup actually is. Or how much 2 tablespoons actually is. It really makes a difference.

So do you know what calorie compensation is, or not? Because you seem to be missing the point and pushing sad old diet culture tropes instead.

Nobody cares. Stop telling people how to lose or do anything when it comes to their weight. Most people know and don’t care.

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Anonymous wrote:For some people, maybe it's about portion control of healthy foods. However, if you at two cups of green beans instead of one cup, I don't think that would cause an increase in calories.

There has to be something else, like eating larger portions of food higher in calories, like higher in saturated fat.

Yes, of course, it’s all calories in/calories out. Of course an extra 50 calories of sautéed green beans is a factor, but so is everything else.

It’s just incredibly stupid to think you’ve found some brilliant life hack in the form of “stop eating 2 snickers bars a day!”

Anyone who has struggled with weight more than a few months already knows that. And they are most likely also fighting their body’s natural inclination toward calorie compensation.

My point was, if your plate starts out with one cup of steamed plain green beans (not sauteed in butter or olive oil), and you overeat the steamed green beans, that's not going to be a lot of extra calories.

Instead of sauteeing the green beans in butter or oil, you can steam them and season them with no salt seasonings.

If you struggle with portion control, have you tried those portion control plates? Or tried weighing and measuring food? I tried that once, and I was completely surprised by how much a 1/4 cup actually is. Or how much 2 tablespoons actually is. It really makes a difference.

That’s it for me. Portion control, and when I did weigh and measure everything out it was a shockingly small amount of food. What wasn’t shocking is that I didn’t stick with that diet for long.

Anonymous wrote:You cut 3500 calories from what?

From your 7000, 20000, 50000?

Do you think it matters?

You cut 3500 calories a week, or 500 calories a day, from either eating less or exercising more. And yes, it matters. You will lose 1 pound a week.

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Anonymous wrote:For some people, maybe it's about portion control of healthy foods. However, if you at two cups of green beans instead of one cup, I don't think that would cause an increase in calories.

There has to be something else, like eating larger portions of food higher in calories, like higher in saturated fat.

Yes, of course, it’s all calories in/calories out. Of course an extra 50 calories of sautéed green beans is a factor, but so is everything else.

It’s just incredibly stupid to think you’ve found some brilliant life hack in the form of “stop eating 2 snickers bars a day!”

Anyone who has struggled with weight more than a few months already knows that. And they are most likely also fighting their body’s natural inclination toward calorie compensation.

My point was, if your plate starts out with one cup of steamed plain green beans (not sauteed in butter or olive oil), and you overeat the steamed green beans, that's not going to be a lot of extra calories.

Instead of sauteeing the green beans in butter or oil, you can steam them and season them with no salt seasonings.

If you struggle with portion control, have you tried those portion control plates? Or tried weighing and measuring food? I tried that once, and I was completely surprised by how much a 1/4 cup actually is. Or how much 2 tablespoons actually is. It really makes a difference.

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Anonymous wrote:Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

I think if you want to lose 1 pound a week, which is a healthy weight loss, you cut out 500 calories a day. Or you workout and lose 500 calories. It's not that easy to workout and lose 500 calories a day.

McDonald's french fries, size small are around 400 calories.

Two cans of coke are around 400 calories.

Two candy bars are around 400 calories.

A microwave popcorn is around 300 calories.

Those are easy to cut out for people who eat like that but what women in DCUMlandia are drinking regular coke or eating TWO CANDY BARS a day?

I sometime eat two candy bars in a day and often eat one. I'm 5'7" and 115lbs. It's just that you can't eat candy bars AND three full meals a day. I also walk a ton and weight lift. Weight lifting is great for weight loss.

You cut 3500 calories from what?

From your 7000, 20000, 50000?

Do you think it matters?

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Anonymous wrote:Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

I think if you want to lose 1 pound a week, which is a healthy weight loss, you cut out 500 calories a day. Or you workout and lose 500 calories. It's not that easy to workout and lose 500 calories a day.

McDonald's french fries, size small are around 400 calories.

Two cans of coke are around 400 calories.

Two candy bars are around 400 calories.

A microwave popcorn is around 300 calories.

Those are easy to cut out for people who eat like that but what women in DCUMlandia are drinking regular coke or eating TWO CANDY BARS a day?

A better idea is to cut out 5 glasses of wine (for those who have a glass with dinner). That's over 500 calories.

Did you know there’s debate of how well the human body can even metabolize alcohol calories? Safe to say cutting wine won’t yield as much benefit as you think and certainly not 1:1 with food calories.

I don't even think there is much debate. Alcohol calories cannot be stored as fat...only used as energy, and not every calorie is uable by the body since it is a toxin. So your 120 pour of wine is more like 60 calories. Your body will use what it can as quickly as it can, and if it can't be used, it will be converted to acetic acid and excreted.

The thing is, your body pretty much stops burning any other energy ingested as it tries to get rid of the alcohol and this only counts for pure alcohol...no mixed cocktails.