No such thing as "Fattening" food or inherently bad food

lithezebra

I thought we were supposed to stay away from certain things... hydrogenated, for example?

So many experts, no one agrees :-)

Hydrogenated doesn't mean bad. Partially hydrogenated oils contain trans fats, which are a type of unsaturated fat and are pretty much automatically bad. Not much stuff has any appreciable amount of trans fat these days. The trans fat that is naturally-occurring in beef doesn't seem to be bad. Fully hydrogenated oils are saturated fats and not trans fats. They're fine.

Hooray for cis double bonds! (As opposed to trans double bonds, found in trans fats).

CocoLeslie

For some people maybe it doesn't matter what you eat to lose weight as long as your calories in is less than your calories out. But for me, when I eat no processed foods I lose weight. When I eat processed foods I gain weight. All with the same calorie deficit of 1000 calories a day. I went traveling and ate pop tarts, bread, cereal, and other things but stayed at my 1000 calorie deficit, and gained 8 pounds in 2 weeks. I did this 3 times over the last 4 months. For me, I feel better, look better, think better, and function better when I eat organic whole foods, no boxed processed foods. My health markers are more than a few lab studies, I also evaluate how I feel and I don't feel as good when I eat synthetic foods.

I challenge everyone to not eat processed foods for a month and feel the difference.

WendyTerry420

For some people maybe it doesn't matter what you eat to lose weight as long as your calories in is less than your calories out. But for me, when I eat no processed foods I lose weight. When I eat processed foods I gain weight. All with the same calorie deficit of 1000 calories a day. I went traveling and ate pop tarts, bread, cereal, and other things but stayed at my 1000 calorie deficit, and gained 8 pounds in 2 weeks. I did this 3 times over the last 4 months. For me, I feel better, look better, think better, and function better when I eat organic whole foods, no boxed processed foods. My health markers are more than a few lab studies, I also evaluate how I feel and I don't feel as good when I eat synthetic foods.

I challenge everyone to not eat processed foods for a month and feel the difference.

jonnythan

I went traveling and ate pop tarts, bread, cereal, and other things but stayed at my 1000 calorie deficit, and gained 8 pounds in 2 weeks. I did this 3 times over the last 4 months.

I knew before clicking that your diary would be closed.

Open your diary and let us evaluate this claim. Waddaya say?