Why am I still in excellent shape after I eating junk?

cassandrarodriguez89
cassandrarodriguez89 Posts: 239 Member
edited November 20 in Food and Nutrition
I ate over 200 cookies this week, a whole deep dish pizza and cake but I don't look like it. Is it possible to reach a level of fitness that allows you to survive off only sugar? What's going on? ly2dru9b99a3.jpg
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  • cassandrarodriguez89
    cassandrarodriguez89 Posts: 239 Member
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    I generally support the concept of "eat whatever you want and lose weight/be fit/be health/enjoy life" so I wanted to like this post from the title, but it seems more of an excuse for a humble brag and to post pics than anything else.

    If your question was serious OP - you didn't consume enough total calories in that period of time to have a noticeable impact on your physique.

    I guess the other question is - why the excess? 200 cookies, was that serious? Do you have BED?

    What's BED?
  • AllOutof_Bubblegum
    AllOutof_Bubblegum Posts: 3,646 Member
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    I generally support the concept of "eat whatever you want and lose weight/be fit/be health/enjoy life" so I wanted to like this post from the title, but it seems more of an excuse for a humble brag and to post pics than anything else.

    If your question was serious OP - you didn't consume enough total calories in that period of time to have a noticeable impact on your physique.

    I guess the other question is - why the excess? 200 cookies, was that serious? Do you have BED?

    What's BED?

    Binge Eating Disorder
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    To answer your question, eating a diet of nothing but cookies would deprive you of essential amino acids and other nutrients and eventually you would be in trouble. However, if you were active enough you could eat a great many cookies in addition to the other food you ate without gaining weight. It's not a matter of being fit enough - fitness is a moving target. If you take your fit body and feed it badly it will eventually stop being fit.

    Once when I was in college I ate an entire box of Oreos dipped in an entire thing of whipped cream. Didn't gain weight, either, and I was model thin at the time. Activity levels and metabolism can handle a lot of bad diet.
  • bbell1985
    bbell1985 Posts: 4,571 Member
    So you didn't eat that much over maintenance, or you did and it hasn't caught up.

    You are lean enough that a stupid amount of carbs will not have an affect on your physique the next day.
  • cassandrarodriguez89
    cassandrarodriguez89 Posts: 239 Member
    Tabbycat00 wrote: »
    rsclause wrote: »
    As you get older you will be saying "I used to eat nothing but junk and never gain weight" "now look how fat I am"

    Actually, I'm 40 and will still have weeks like this and not gain weight. The trick is I count every calorie and if I have a bad week, I try to make it up with a good week. If my calorie limit is 1400 and all of my calories came from cookies and pizza (happens) I try for 1400 calories of veggies and grilled fish the next day. If I eat 1600 calories on a special occasion, I'll eat only 1200 the next day. I still weigh what I weighed on my 21st birthday (98 lbs). So, although there's a possibility she'll gain weight as she gets older if she continues eating poorly on a regular basis, there's an equal possibility she won't if she's aware of her calorie intake and keeps working out.

    40 and in shape! Your an inspiration!
  • cassandrarodriguez89
    cassandrarodriguez89 Posts: 239 Member
    I feel like the Rock would eat something other than cod or broccoli if he could, you know? Or any of those action stars.

    Chris Pratt has an amusing instagram series on the subject called "what's my snack?" Even though he works out like crazy, his diet has to be super on point to maintain what he's worked for. Some of it's collected here, enjoy.
    https://www.buzzfeed.com/michelleregna/kuh-kay-oh-bay-oh-bab-banana-chia?utm_term=.rtlWKxkv0#.xclzQNrka

    OMG hahaha! I'm dying :D
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