Buzzfeed Calories Article

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  • blues4miles
    blues4miles Posts: 1,481 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    For the same reason, now that I have plenty of calories, I'll save room for ice cream and cheese while eating skim cottage cheese and greek yogurt. The latter are as satisfying to me as full fat, so I'd rather use my dairy fat calories in other ways.

    Fat free cool whip is something I use occasionally. Yes it has sugar. But the calories per quantity are pretty low. Mix with some strawberries and it's very decadent for a good volume at way way way lower calories than full fat cool whip or ice cream or something.


    soulofgrace wrote: »
    PB Oreos are my favorite of all the flavors! I like to eat the top cookie first so I can. get the full hit of PB goodness from the other cookie. I like anything peanut butter. All time favorite is a delicious PB&J.

    I did not know this was a thing. I love oreos. It was probably better that I never knew this was a thing. Now I'll be thinking about it all week.
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
    juggernaut1974 wrote: »
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    juggernaut1974 wrote: »
    I disagree with several of their points...but it's a buzzfeed article so it's not surprising that it's full of misinformation.

    Which points do you disagree with?

    Are you trying to make me click on it again?? :)

    OK...

    2 "First of all, your body adapts to losing weight, so that 500-calorie deficit has incrementally less effect as time goes on" (no - a 500 calorie deficit is a 500 calorie deficit)

    3 "Since there’s no mathematic equation for weight loss" (umm...no, it's entirely a mathematic equation)

    7 "But you should not eat less than 1,000–1,200 calories per day" (well...technically I agree I guess, but I'd set the threshhold much higher)

    8 " You want to cut them from highly processed foods." (no...makes no difference which calories you cut)

    9 "Replace the calories you’re cutting with foods that are less processed (and as a result not as calorie-dense)." (Again, 'processing' isn't the determining factor...and I have to laugh that the picture accompanying this point is of a half of an avocado - perhaps one of THE most calorie dense foods there is)

    11 "Low-fat diets (technically any diet where less than 30% of your calories come from fat) are tough to stick to" (for SOME people)

    12 "Be on the lookout for products that are labeled as low fat or reduced fat, because they tend to have more added sugar than the full-fat versions...In those products, they’ve “replaced fat — which the body needs and mouth likes — with sugar, which is not needed and not satiating," (for SOME people)

    14 "When possible, don’t start your meal with a starch" (huh???)

    Cosign

    Number two demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of the concept.
    It's not that you need to eat 500 calories less than you already do but rather that you need to eat 500 less than TDEE.
    The claim that a 500 calorie deficit becomes less effective over time is ludicrous.
    The reality is that the smaller you get, the lower your TDEE is, thus you have to adjust intake to maintain the 500 calorie deficit. Otherwise, your 500 calorie deficit becomes a 400 calorie deficit over time.

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