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RE: Why Your Diet Sucks (but mine doesn't)
At the end of the day it is a function of calories in-calories out. I found that I could reduce my daily calorie intake by 500 calories a day by just reading the labels on things and making a few substitutions, like for example an English muffin has 100 calories less than a bagel. Every 3500 calories your either don't consume or you burn through activity equals one pound of fat loss so if you can reduce your calories by 500 a day you can lose one pound a week.
This theory is so far from the truth, I can't believe people actually still trust it. But, But it's science!
Come on man, we don't live in a world where everyone eats whole and natural foods that honestly shares its caloric value. We live in a world where poisonous ingredients are added to your food and drink to show you that the calories are low, when really they just put in a viral ingredient that consumes calories as well as eats away the lining of your stomach.
Weight management has nothing to do with caloric intake vs. output anymore.
I've proven this theory for myself, I was on a diet of store bought cookies and frozen pizzas for a while and lost quite a bit of weight by eating the right number of calories. It's physics, of course everyone's body responds to different foods differently and some foods can jack up some people's blood sugar which makes them eat more than they ought to. Of course artificial sweeteners are sketchy and those can throw things off as well.
1 can of diet soda with 0 calories, or 1 pint of ale with 200 calories. If you drink one of these a day for a year, which one will cause you to gain more weight?
Both contain poisonous alcohol sugars, hard to say. I did just hear an interview with a woman who turned 104 and attributed her longevity to a daily Diet Coke.
Like I said "Of course artificial sweeteners are sketchy and those can throw things off as well."
Agreed, eating right is more important than eating less calories of whatever than one consumes.
it depends what your goals are, if you want to be healthy then it gets complicated, if you only want to lose weight it is simple.
Good discussion from everyone. I really like that @funbobby51 is making more informed choices about food and using calories as a guide for that.
It's great that @ponts is also thinking about the impact that crappy foods and chemicals might have on the body too.
@karlvillem, I nearly always try aim for quality first but obviously calories and food quality can both be important at different times.
For me, diet is so multi-faceted that it's impossible to say which way is right. Calories in versus calories out is technically referring to the first law of thermodynamics - energy is neither created or destroyed, it is only transferred. However, our bodies aren't an isolated science experiment. The body is subject to so many factors that it won't always be that simple.
What I wanted to get across in my article is that we can end up debating diet too much. If something is working for someone - either from a fat loss, lifestyle, stress or practicality stand point, then that's really awesome. It doesn't matter what they are doing, just that they are trying. That's whats most important for me.
Thanks for the thoughtful posts guys! You're a credit to the Steemit community