RE: Debunk-Tuesday – Late Night Fat
The day I learned that my "healthy" walnuts have about 640 kcal/100g was a sad day... People heavily underestimate how many kcal their food has, especially if they're told it's something healthy. And as soon as you start actively tracking it, you start being horrified.
I used to cook with a lot of olive oil, as that's the way I had been taught - by my 2m tall, highly physically active father. People tend to forget that not everyone has the same base metabolism, and then complain that they, as a short person, gain weight while eating the same as a tall person.
So many ways to lie to yourself.
"It's just a handful of gummy bears" (300 kcal)
"Just a quarter bar of chocolate" (120 kcal)
"One croissant is a nice breakfast" (300 kcal)
But blaming it all on genetics is way easier than taking responsibility for your eating habits.
I wanted to comment here but all the good things were said by you.
I am guilty not of eating late but of eating continuously =)
Indeed many of the things I eat and I didn't use to count had more calories than the sum of the rest of the meals. Thankfully I can stuff myself with 4000 kcal a day without gaining significant weight but this will change and I will adjust the intake.
It all depends on the responsibility and the will to actually lose weight. This is where the errors happen for most :D
Same logic.
Walnuts are healthy. You have do distinguish between healthy and unhealthy calories (im german by the way so this is wy my english probalby is not that well:D).
So walnuts yes of course are a high calorie food, but these calories are made of very healthy fats, and a lot of protein (which have some good effects in your diet).
Chocolate for example is a high calorie food too but the difference between walnuts and chocolate is, that chocolate has not this great and important ingredients walnuts have. So you can say chocolate is unhealthy because chocolate has not much healthy and important ingredients.
But walnuts are healthy. You can not judge food only by virtue of the calories. You have to look also at what are these calories made of/what are the ingredients.
Yes when it comes to lose fat ore gain fat(or muscel when you train) than is the calorie intake in relation to the energy your body need the most important fact but a high calorie food is not generally unhealthy.
By the way sometimes i dont understand how people get problems with to eat too much calories, in my case i have problems to eat more my body needs (like 3700 calories per day). Eat that much because of sports and the goal of gaining weight)
have a good day:D
My point wasn't "healthy" vs. "unhealthy" calories, it was about the fact that too many people think that, just because something is healthy, it won't make them fat.
And I burn in average 1800-2100 kcal a day. Now, go figure what kind of difference that makes compared to your 3700 kcal in regards to overeating.
5k kcal in a day is easy btw. Maybe not if you stick to vegetables, but a bag of chips (700 kcal) and a large portion of fries (600 kcal) already get you well on the way. Fat people are usually not fat because of their good food choices.
Okay then i understood you not in the right way:D
Yeah thats true reaching this 2k calories is way more easier.
But i think when you eat in normal speed and so on (eat low calorie stuff also like vegetables) your body is pretty good to tell you how much you have to eat. I usually would burn like 3400 kcal per day and im able to reach this 3400 kcal pretty well (not tracking) only trust my feelings. So i think overeating is something like difficult fore people like you who burn 2k kcal and also for me with like 3400kcal per day because your body know you need no more then the 2k kcal an my body knows i dont need no more then 3400kcal.
But only my experiences.
I will see you eating this 5k kcal per day longterm:D In my opinion really difficult. Perhaps you are able to eat that much a few days but longterm this will be very hard. I have Problems with that 3700kcal a day and thats only like 300kcal over the energy my body burn a day.
With your reasoning, fat people wouldn't exist.
Just because it's hard for you to eat that much, doesn't mean it applies to everyone.
Just because I can't run a marathon doesn't mean nobody can.
No i just think when you hear to your body you are able to hit your calories pretty well.
When you dont hear to your body/development the bad habit of eating to fast and only high calorie fast food and stuff like that, perhaps this is teached to you by your parents so your body never learned how to eat right you will get fat of course.
So my advice for fat people is to start train (in gym) and then adapt your calorie intake.
Losing body fat without training is not that efficient cause you will lose your muscles first. So train hard eat well (not that hard in my opinion when you are motivated cause you will be able to see your successes pretty fast)