Can you really eat whatever you want?

try2again

PAV8888 wrote: »

You should be aware that when you switch back and forth from low carb to non low carb you will experience gain and loss of glycogen replenishment related water weight.

Basically when you first start eating low carb you deplete your easy access carb stores, i.e. glycogen in the muscles and liver. Each carb gram you use up was stored with 2-3g of water that also gets released at the same time.

When you eat carbs again after a period of low carb eating your glycogen stores get replenished and you store each gram of carb with 2-3g of water.

So during these transactions you are losing and gaining scale weight; but you are not actually losing and gaining FAT.

Low carbers who do not understand this look at these weight changes as confirmation that the killer carbs are out to get them, not realising that the initial weight loss was "borrowed" against this equal subsequent regain to normalise glycogen stores.

Nevertheless, underlying fat loss was not affected either going down or going up.

I would love for this to be a sticky (not that anyone ever reads those, but for handy reference). Drives me batty when people say, "I have to eat low-carb or I immediately gain weight!"

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frankiesgirlie

I seriously don’t know what I’d do without popcorn. I have it almost every night. 200 calories for a huge bowl that’s very filling and keeps me out of the cookie bag!!

Jackibrazil

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Jackibrazil wrote: »

Why can't people just drop it already. I'll re-state. If anything means continuously eating unhealthy then you probably shouldn't. My original one line statement was that you can eat anything you want and lose weight as long as you're consuming less than you burn but for health you probably shouldn't. Key word was ANYTHING. Because it's open to interpretation. You probably shouldn't eat just anything you want if it's in excess or incredibly unhealthy.

I didn't really think that statement would be such a huge deal to so many.

If you're eating anything in excess, then it already violates the parameters put forth that a person is within their calories.

Name a food that is incredibly unhealthy?

Pretty much anything containing high-fructose corn syrup is the first thing I think of. I really don't need people to keep trying to make me feel stupid though.

HFCS, what "health" blog or Instagram page did you get this info from? Did they have a PhD in Youtube and a doctorate in social media?

I got it from my freshman year biology class.

Ok, so what specifically are you concerned about with HFCS? As mentioned above, it is not significantly different in composition than other types of sugar - it is liquid and fairly cheap to use in mass production - but what are your specific concerns that you think anything with it is inherently unhealthy?

You have gotten pretty defensive about the comments you're receiving but you come onto the boards guns blazing in several threads, making sweeping generalizations and vague insinuations, tout being a "bio major" yet you haven't really delved into any scientific discussions or clarified your stance when people are asking for more details. Telling me that a lecture from freshmen biology is the reason for your perspective on HFCs doesn't actually explain WHY you think it's a concern. And don't worry about getting too technical, I have a chemistry degree.

watch the lecture I posted then tell me if you are unconcerned by HFCS

I also have a chemistry degree but that is utterly irrelevant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

The poster I was responding to has been flouting her educational experience to appeal to authority.

I've watched that video. You should give this a read...
http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-about-fructose-alarmism/

No, you asked what "health" or nutrition blog I got the information from. It was pretty condescending. I know what credible sources are and I am well aware that fitness sites and blogs are rarely credible and I don't lap up information from there. I actually first learned about it from my freshman year bio class and went home and researched it. It was years ago and I'm not really interested in continuing to debate and be patronized on here because I know that if I present sources and information here people will continue to debate in the same manner. There's a debate section of these forums and if I wanted to do that I'd be posting there.