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Does specific type of food help you lose weight
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I should write a book cause I lost a lot of fat eating a lot of processed and fast food. I also put all my health markers into perfect or near perfect levels. Ya know why? Cause I hit my macros and micros, stay hydrated, get enough fiber...but then, I live a little. Sometimes that's cake, sometimes it's fast food. Sometimes it's both. I eat no less than 4 tootsie pops every day as well...
I love being a unicorn...0 -
*blink*
I would have thought if that were true that I'd not be losing weight and inches on the ridiculous amounts of cookies and cake I've been eating since going off the rails at Christmas. And yet, it's happening. I wonder how that could be?
ETA: And I'm not suggesting people should eat like I've been - hence the 'going off the rails' bit.0 -
singingflutelady wrote: »I don't particularly looking ke McDonald's so I don't eat it but there is no poison in their food.
When i eat i dont intend to be hungry after an hour later when you eat mcds you do its not a fulfilling meal
It's been a long time since I ate at McD but I don't recall being hungry an hour later.0 -
Women can lose weight while eating pasta and bread. Even older women like me.0 -
I should write a book cause I lost a lot of fat eating a lot of processed and fast food. I also put all my health markers into perfect or near perfect levels. Ya know why? Cause I hit my macros and micros, stay hydrated, get enough fiber...but then, I live a little. Sometimes that's cake, sometimes it's fast food. Sometimes it's both. I eat no less than 4 tootsie pops every day as well...
I love being a unicorn...
Maybe you work on cars a lot, a lot of body work.0 -
singingflutelady wrote: »I don't particularly looking ke McDonald's so I don't eat it but there is no poison in their food.
When i eat i dont intend to be hungry after an hour later when you eat mcds you do its not a fulfilling meal
and what does that have to do with poison?
Ridiculous...my wife lost plenty of weight and still ate her toast at breakfast...we have pasta every couple of weeks.
Where do you come up with this *kitten*?0 -
I ate bread and pasta when I was losing weight. I just logged the calories. Worked like a charm.
There is no reason why bread and pasta should be avoided by women trying to lose weight.0 -
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I ate a sandwich almost every day for lunch while I was losing.
You're repeating a lot of old myths and lists from bad sources, trusting sources that confirm your existing beliefs while ignoring the personal experiences, studies, and science that others are offering.0 -
diannethegeek wrote: »
I ate a sandwich almost every day for lunch while I was losing.
You're repeating a lot of old myths and lists from bad sources, trusting sources that confirm your existing beliefs while ignoring the personal experiences, studies, and science that others are offering.
I almost feel like this is Microsofts second attempt at an AI. Especially since she responds to her own posts and answers the same posts in very different ways multiple times.0 -
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I actually think the underlying assumption from the OP is men can eat spaghetti and carbs because they do manual labor...but not the delicate women folk.
Looking at my daily fitbit count.....
You trying to goad me into going for a walk?
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diannethegeek wrote: »
I ate a sandwich almost every day for lunch while I was losing.
You're repeating a lot of old myths and lists from bad sources, trusting sources that confirm your existing beliefs while ignoring the personal experiences, studies, and science that others are offering.
I almost feel like this is Microsofts second attempt at an AI. Especially since she responds to her own posts and answers the same posts in very different ways multiple times.
Well by that standard, the lack of racism is an improvement.0 -
Spaghetti is not my favorite pasta, but I ate lots of pasta and sauce when losing weight. The only sugar in it was from the vegetables/tomatoes, also.
While I do, in fact, do a good bit of exercise, I actually found pasta with a lean meat and vegetables to be a fine low cal dinner that fit into my day even when I was more sedentary. Of course, being no longer sedentary (even if one of those women-folk) makes it easier.0 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »Spaghetti is not my favorite pasta, but I ate lots of pasta and sauce when losing weight. The only sugar in it was from the vegetables/tomatoes, also.
While I do, in fact, do a good bit of exercise, I actually found pasta with a lean meat and vegetables to be a fine low cal dinner that fit into my day even when I was more sedentary. Of course, being no longer sedentary (even if one of those women-folk) makes it easier.
Oh hush, and get back in the kitchen.0 -
Can I eat bread and pasta if I am a woman with a manual labor job?
Not really looking for an answer. I ate bread and pasta while losing and I eat them now that I am maintaining.0 -
OP, I'm honestly not sure what you're trying to say at this point. Some of your posts seem to be saying that if you eat junk food you can't lose weight, but in other posts you seem to be saying that everyone will eat junk food occasionally at that's okay.
All any of us are saying is that calories are the only thing that matters for weight loss, "junk food" is okay in the context of an otherwise balanced diet, but types of food eaten can affect satiety, body comp, and health.
Depends not all have the same metabilism if your goal is to just lose weight then eat whatever suits you fit if you believe you can lose weight just by eating junk food... bread spaghetti exc... i dont think you will some people just eat whatever and they are still skinny... but are they healthy... who knows in order to lose weight on my point of view is eating many times a day small portions and avoiding the junk food... if you eat every now and then a cheeseburger or whatever food you crave doesnt mean all the hard work you have done will set you back changing eating habbits is hard this is why when you change your menue of list of food and then go back to your old eating habbits with no consequences you will put that weight back losing weight is the easy part but keeping it is the hard
OP, do you know what a calorie is? Do you understand what a calorie deficit is?0 -
What about men trying to lose weight?
What about women doing "body work"? (assume you mean lifting heavy stuff)
What about a woman trying to lose weight and do body work?
My brain is going to explode in a moment.0 -
Oh, also, most of the bread that I eat has 1-2 g of sugar per slice. How is that high sugar? (The spaghetti part was addressed already by lemurcat)0 -
WinoGelato wrote: »queenliz99 wrote: »
Well most people who want to lose weight just stop eating or start eating less but the thing is once you start eating into your normal everyday routin you gain everything back
And diatrofi what we call it in greek sorry but i dont know how to say it... but you eat more healthy... than before cut down on the fried stuff and still see results.. lose weight stay stable be more healthy but still eat!!!
If the eating less you're doing becomes your routine, no, no you don't gain back. That's kind of how the whole thing works. cwolfman13 literally explained it above with his own numbers.
Its hard to maintain not impossible just hard..m its like eating less makes your stomach smaller then you just start eating less.... but the thing is.... is our goal to eat less or to eat healthier ..... eating less is not the solution for dieting im sorry but im against it i believe eating small portions many times a day will help you lose more calories than just once a day depending what you eat and its like anorexia how do people start.....eating less then not eating at all
You can be against it all you want but the fact remains that in order to lose weight a person needs to be in a calorie deficit, and that can be done eating several small meals, one big meal, it can be done by eating any type of food as well.
CICO is indisputable.
What you seem to be mixing up is calorie deficit, nutrition, satiety, adherence, and long term maintenance. You keep saying that if people don't change the way they eat then they will gain all the weight back. While it's true that some people struggle maintaining long term success rates with weight loss - the tools that people have at their reach today (calorie counting sites like this one, activity trackers like FitBit) I think will make those success rates go up. Combine that with the fact that the people who use sites like this while they are losing learn new habits, such as portion control and moderation, so that they are better able to successfully transition into maintenance.
The people who have responded here have collectively lost hundreds of pounds and kept them off for years using exactly the techniques you insist won't work.
I'm requoting myself for emphasis since it seems to be the theme here that you can quote yourself and talk to yourself in this thread.
OP - you are trying to argue points that make no sense from a scientific, or even a logic perspective. You are saying things like "you can't lose weight if you eat junk" or "you can lose weight but you won't be healthy" or "you can lose weight but you won't have a good body". Have you looked at the avatars of the people you are arguing with in this thread? Have you visited anyone's profile page to see how much weight they've lost? Read their stories to understand how their health markers have improved and how they have reversed things like high cholesterol, pre-diabetes, etc - simply by losing weight and eating a balanced, primarily nutrient dense diet within a calorie deficit - but not excluding things like McDonalds, which you now say is poison? If it were poison, would any of us be alive to be posting here today?
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What about men trying to lose weight?
What about women doing "body work"? (assume you mean lifting heavy stuff)
What about a woman trying to lose weight and do body work?
My brain is going to explode in a moment.
Are you trying to be a body builder... are you saying that a mans metabilism and a womens is the same men lose weight easier then women ... if you dont lose weight first and just skip that part...your fat will become muscle0 -
What about men trying to lose weight?
What about women doing "body work"? (assume you mean lifting heavy stuff)
What about a woman trying to lose weight and do body work?
My brain is going to explode in a moment.
Are you trying to be a body builder... are you saying that a mans metabilism and a womens is the same men lose weight easier then women ... if you dont lose weight first and just skip that part...your fat will become muscle
Fat does not magically become muscle.0 -
ClosetBayesian wrote: »
What about men trying to lose weight?
What about women doing "body work"? (assume you mean lifting heavy stuff)
What about a woman trying to lose weight and do body work?
My brain is going to explode in a moment.
Are you trying to be a body builder... are you saying that a mans metabilism and a womens is the same men lose weight easier then women ... if you dont lose weight first and just skip that part...your fat will become muscle
Fat does not magically become muscle.
If you lift massive amount of weight it does0 -
ClosetBayesian wrote: »
What about men trying to lose weight?
What about women doing "body work"? (assume you mean lifting heavy stuff)
What about a woman trying to lose weight and do body work?
My brain is going to explode in a moment.
Are you trying to be a body builder... are you saying that a mans metabilism and a womens is the same men lose weight easier then women ... if you dont lose weight first and just skip that part...your fat will become muscle
Fat does not magically become muscle.
If you lift massive amount of weight it does
No, it doesn't. Fat does not turn into muscle. That's not how it works, at all.0 -
What about men trying to lose weight?
What about women doing "body work"? (assume you mean lifting heavy stuff)
What about a woman trying to lose weight and do body work?
My brain is going to explode in a moment.
Are you trying to be a body builder... are you saying that a mans metabilism and a womens is the same men lose weight easier then women ... if you dont lose weight first and just skip that part...your fat will become muscle
That's not how any of this works. You need to go back to step one and learn how metabolism, weight loss, and human bodies work.0 -
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ClosetBayesian wrote: »
What about men trying to lose weight?
What about women doing "body work"? (assume you mean lifting heavy stuff)
What about a woman trying to lose weight and do body work?
My brain is going to explode in a moment.
Are you trying to be a body builder... are you saying that a mans metabilism and a womens is the same men lose weight easier then women ... if you dont lose weight first and just skip that part...your fat will become muscle
Fat does not magically become muscle.
If you lift massive amount of weight it does
No. Never.0 -
WinoGelato wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »queenliz99 wrote: »
Well most people who want to lose weight just stop eating or start eating less but the thing is once you start eating into your normal everyday routin you gain everything back
And diatrofi what we call it in greek sorry but i dont know how to say it... but you eat more healthy... than before cut down on the fried stuff and still see results.. lose weight stay stable be more healthy but still eat!!!
If the eating less you're doing becomes your routine, no, no you don't gain back. That's kind of how the whole thing works. cwolfman13 literally explained it above with his own numbers.
Its hard to maintain not impossible just hard..m its like eating less makes your stomach smaller then you just start eating less.... but the thing is.... is our goal to eat less or to eat healthier ..... eating less is not the solution for dieting im sorry but im against it i believe eating small portions many times a day will help you lose more calories than just once a day depending what you eat and its like anorexia how do people start.....eating less then not eating at all
You can be against it all you want but the fact remains that in order to lose weight a person needs to be in a calorie deficit, and that can be done eating several small meals, one big meal, it can be done by eating any type of food as well.
CICO is indisputable.
What you seem to be mixing up is calorie deficit, nutrition, satiety, adherence, and long term maintenance. You keep saying that if people don't change the way they eat then they will gain all the weight back. While it's true that some people struggle maintaining long term success rates with weight loss - the tools that people have at their reach today (calorie counting sites like this one, activity trackers like FitBit) I think will make those success rates go up. Combine that with the fact that the people who use sites like this while they are losing learn new habits, such as portion control and moderation, so that they are better able to successfully transition into maintenance.
The people who have responded here have collectively lost hundreds of pounds and kept them off for years using exactly the techniques you insist won't work.
I'm requoting myself for emphasis since it seems to be the theme here that you can quote yourself and talk to yourself in this thread.
OP - you are trying to argue points that make no sense from a scientific, or even a logic perspective. You are saying things like "you can't lose weight if you eat junk" or "you can lose weight but you won't be healthy" or "you can lose weight but you won't have a good body". Have you looked at the avatars of the people you are arguing with in this thread? Have you visited anyone's profile page to see how much weight they've lost? Read their stories to understand how their health markers have improved and how they have reversed things like high cholesterol, pre-diabetes, etc - simply by losing weight and eating a balanced, primarily nutrient dense diet within a calorie deficit - but not excluding things like McDonalds, which you now say is poison? If it were poison, would any of us be alive to be posting here today?
You can think whatever you want .. you eat whatever you think is fit its more easier for someone to be on a healthy diet to lose weight then someone who doesnt iv done it ... it works for me so i dont really care what you do if i am happy with my weight and my body i really dont care how you lost your weight.. if i eat junk i wont lose weight... if you eat junk and you lose weight thats just you... if i eat bread and spaghetti i wont be able to lose weight if that works for you it doesn't mean it works for everyone...0 -
WinoGelato wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »queenliz99 wrote: »
Well most people who want to lose weight just stop eating or start eating less but the thing is once you start eating into your normal everyday routin you gain everything back
And diatrofi what we call it in greek sorry but i dont know how to say it... but you eat more healthy... than before cut down on the fried stuff and still see results.. lose weight stay stable be more healthy but still eat!!!
If the eating less you're doing becomes your routine, no, no you don't gain back. That's kind of how the whole thing works. cwolfman13 literally explained it above with his own numbers.
Its hard to maintain not impossible just hard..m its like eating less makes your stomach smaller then you just start eating less.... but the thing is.... is our goal to eat less or to eat healthier ..... eating less is not the solution for dieting im sorry but im against it i believe eating small portions many times a day will help you lose more calories than just once a day depending what you eat and its like anorexia how do people start.....eating less then not eating at all
You can be against it all you want but the fact remains that in order to lose weight a person needs to be in a calorie deficit, and that can be done eating several small meals, one big meal, it can be done by eating any type of food as well.
CICO is indisputable.
What you seem to be mixing up is calorie deficit, nutrition, satiety, adherence, and long term maintenance. You keep saying that if people don't change the way they eat then they will gain all the weight back. While it's true that some people struggle maintaining long term success rates with weight loss - the tools that people have at their reach today (calorie counting sites like this one, activity trackers like FitBit) I think will make those success rates go up. Combine that with the fact that the people who use sites like this while they are losing learn new habits, such as portion control and moderation, so that they are better able to successfully transition into maintenance.
The people who have responded here have collectively lost hundreds of pounds and kept them off for years using exactly the techniques you insist won't work.
I'm requoting myself for emphasis since it seems to be the theme here that you can quote yourself and talk to yourself in this thread.
OP - you are trying to argue points that make no sense from a scientific, or even a logic perspective. You are saying things like "you can't lose weight if you eat junk" or "you can lose weight but you won't be healthy" or "you can lose weight but you won't have a good body". Have you looked at the avatars of the people you are arguing with in this thread? Have you visited anyone's profile page to see how much weight they've lost? Read their stories to understand how their health markers have improved and how they have reversed things like high cholesterol, pre-diabetes, etc - simply by losing weight and eating a balanced, primarily nutrient dense diet within a calorie deficit - but not excluding things like McDonalds, which you now say is poison? If it were poison, would any of us be alive to be posting here today?
You can think whatever you want .. you eat whatever you think is fit its more easier for someone to be on a healthy diet to lose weight then someone who doesnt iv done it ... it works for me so i dont really care what you do if i am happy with my weight and my body i really dont care how you lost your weight.. if i eat junk i wont lose weight... if you eat junk and you lose weight thats just you... if i eat bread and spaghetti i wont be able to lose weight if that works for you it doesn't mean it works for everyone...
Curious, why did you start this thread? Obviously not to get an answer to your question.0
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