Are these statements true?
badgyaljilly
Posts: 36 Member
I am currently following a fitness trainer on instagram and he shared a post and thought it was interesting 
and made me a little scared.
Is what he’s claiming true?
and made me a little scared.
Is what he’s claiming true?
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More scare tactic demonizing of food.7
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When you see posts like those and they don't mention calories even once. Then you can safely ignore the entire post.11
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Nope. So long as you're eating at a calorie deficit, you will lose weight. No foods or ingredients magically stop that from happening.3
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Load of rubbish...2
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No...and honestly, there are tons of yogurt out there with nothing added. I eat 0% Fage Greek yogurt...it has no sugar or HFCS or any other additive and it has live cultures.
My whole wheat bread does not have HFCS either...preservatives like sodium don't get stored as fat either.
I don't eat cereal bars mostly because I've never seen the point.
Most trainers aren't experts on nutrition and just tout whatever the latest woo is. They are specialized in exercise and fitness, not nutrition.
This guy sounds like he's fresh out of the woo machine...4 -
OMG, no.2
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wow...yah no. I just ate 100gram of skyr yogurt for 10 grams of protein and 90 calories...awesomeness2
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If it sounds ridiculous, it is ridiculous. No. Don't follow that kind of nonsense on IG.1
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All that matters for weight loss is a calorie deficit. What you eat matters for nutrition, satiety, health, and other matters. But if you're eating (picks number at random) 1400 calories to lose 1lb/week, it makes no difference for weight loss purposes whether those calories come from yogurt cheese mixed with crumbled cereal bar and eaten in a sandwich on whole wheat bread or PB&J, lean turkey, deli cold cuts, egg salad... you get the picture.
That being said, a 200-calorie cereal bar might leave you feeling less full than a 200-calorie fruit salad. Or it might not. Satiety is pretty individual.
Six days a week, my go-to breakfast is Greek yogurt over grapes with a granola bar crumbled on top. Depending on the bar, it's about 310-325 calories. I've dropped 90 lbs in a year.
Also, there is nothing you can eat that will make your tummy flatten. Where the weight comes off first is mostly genetics/luck of the draw. You can do strength training to preserve your abdominal muscle so that when the fat comes off, what's underneath will look fit. But there's no way to spot-reduce fat.
ETA: If your body "can't recognize certain ingredients," it excretes them. Gourmet chefs sometimes put gold dust on chocolate pudding to make it look fancy. THAT is an ingredient your body can't recognize... but it doesn't store it as fat. It just sends it out with the rest of the waste. The only thing your body will store as fat is a surplus of calories, no matter what food they come from.2 -
No, they are not true. If you are in a calorie deficit you will lose weight eating whatever you chose to eat. I would find someone else to follow on instagram.2
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It all depends on the brand. I don't eat cereal bars because most of them have very little nutritional value (as in the specific macros I'm looking for to be clear). I'd rather eat a protein bar. I like yogurt but don't buy it often, and when I do I buy the more natural versions of greek or light greek yogurt. As far as bread I stick to whole grain lower calorie stuff. It's all a choice though, eat what you want. The only reason to change what you eat is if it's not giving you the specific nutrients you want in your diet.0
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I'd probably unfollow that person.6
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I eat all those things... I'm losing weight O.O3
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Liar liar pants of fire. Not true at all.4
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I think it depends on allergies. I have a coworker that's allergic to eggs so for her eggs are "unhealthy".
I find I have a bad reaction to products containing copious amounts of HFCS so I try to avoid it. But I'm not gonna jump down someone's throat if they want to consume those things. That's up to them.3 -
Absolutely not. Also my yogurt has no HFCS/sugar, and even still, sugar doesn't just magically turn to fat.
I eat these things almost everyday. Clearly had no issue shedding fat.3 -
Complete and utter horse manure. And that's putting it nicely.1
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Haha..yea should have put "added sugar"
but I do enjoy sweetened yogurt from time to time 0 -
Bahaha.. you should see my food intake now (that I'm in a surplus) it is like living in one of those dreams where everything is edible
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The reasoning provided about these foods is not correct. But, cereal bars and yogurt are foods that are often marketed as healthy, but in reality may not be the best choice to hit your goals.
Some cereal bars are higher in sugar, and provide little in the way of protein, fat, and fiber, so there might be a better choice available that hits your macro needs for the same calories. With yogurt, there are great options out there (I like Greek yogurt for the protein), but there are also options that are high in sugar and offer little in terms of fat and protein. That doesn't mean that you need to swear these foods off forever, it's more about being aware of the ingredients and looking at how these foods fit into your overall goals.
As for whole wheat bread, all of that up there is bunk, but there are plenty of brands out there that do not contain high fructose corn syrup if you are trying to limit that in your diet. I find whole wheat bread tends to offer more varieties with extra protein or fiber than white breads.2 -
Wow, no. There's some tiny bit of truth to them in that all of these foods may have sugar in them, but it is a huge myth that sugar somehow makes you unable to lose weight. Your body does not look at an ingredient, throw up its hands in despair if that ingredient is unfamiliar, and then shove those ingredients into fat cells, much like I throw random things I find around the house into a junk drawer.
Being in a calorie deficit makes you lose weight. Period. You can eat all sorts of different foods (including sugar!) and you will lose weight if you are in a calorie deficit. I ate chocolate every day while I was losing weight; I eat chocolate every day now that I'm in maintenance.4 -
I mean, I wouldn't eat a cereal bar because they are, for the most part, unpleasant, and for that amount of sugar I'd rather have a cookie. Or a brownie. But not because I'm afraid they'll halt my weightloss.
And actually, I find it's more challenging to find whole wheat bread without honey, than without HFCS.1 -
I eat all of those foods multiple times a week.
I've lost 35 lbs which according to this article is impossible.
Nuff said.0 -
You know there not true don't you?
Common sense tells you that.0 -
They are not true, though you can feel free to cherry pick them for use should you want your significant other to stop pushing things like wheat bread on you.0
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I find it highly amusing when someone claims that "the body doesn't recognize xxx as food, and therefore stores it as fat." That's exactly what the body WILL do with food. Things that are not food, like plastic, or metal, or whatever, just don't get digested.6
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