I got question about calories

Gioeyebrow
Gioeyebrow Posts: 404 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Do you lose weight faster if you eat 2000 calories worth of salad compared 2 to 2000 calories worth of burgers or does it even matter?

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  • eddiek10
    eddiek10 Posts: 22 Member
    In order to eat 2000 calories of veggies salad it would take quite a huge amount of greens. But yes it matters, it's what's inside of what you eat like, sodium, carbs, cholesterol and things you wanna watch out for. The app tells you all info on every meal you search!
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Courtesy of @bpetrosky
    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10183824/things-i-had-to-unlearn-about-losing-weight/p1
  • RebelDiamond
    RebelDiamond Posts: 188 Member
    For weight loss, where the calories come from (salad or burger) doesn't make a difference.
    The difference will be how full/satisfied you feel throughout the day.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    Speaking purely in terms of weight loss, it doesn't matter. A calorie is a calorie.

    There are other considerations such as overall health/nutrition, satiety, body composition, lean mass retention, athletic performance, etc. which would make either of those extreme diets less than optimal. Also, the overall "healthiness" of a diet can't be evaluated by one meal, or even one day - it's how the things you eat fit into the wider context of your diet as a whole.
  • ClosetBayesian
    ClosetBayesian Posts: 836 Member
    eddiek10 wrote: »
    In order to eat 2000 calories of veggies salad it would take quite a huge amount of greens. But yes it matters, it's what's inside of what you eat like, sodium, carbs, cholesterol and things you wanna watch out for. The app tells you all info on every meal you search!

    In terms of weight loss, no, it does not. In terms of balanced nutrition, context is important. There are times when a burger is a better choice, and there are times when a salad is a better choice.
  • georgianna474747
    georgianna474747 Posts: 3 Member
    Staying under your calorie count each day wether it is good or bad food will eventually result in losing weight. But if you want to stay healthy and feel good then healthy foods would be the better option. :)
  • BeYouTiful94
    BeYouTiful94 Posts: 289 Member
    edited March 2016
    It's like "which is heavier, a pound of rocks or a pound of feathers? ... They're both a pound."

    Strictly speaking of the calories and weight loss, it makes no difference. Eating at a deficit is what leads to weight loss, so if 2000 calories is a deficit for you, then you'll have similar results from both the burgers and the salad.

    Now nutritionally speaking, it's obvious that salads tend to be healthier than burgers (unless you're talking about McDonald's. Don't get me started). And like the feathers and the rocks, where you'd be packing feathers for days to get a pound, but could toss in just a couple nice sized rocks to get that pound, you could eat several salads made of fresh greens and other veggies before reaching 2K cals, whereas just one or two burgers could easily put you at 2K.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    The higher protein option is likely to win.

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