"Help! I'm eating HEALTHY but not losing weight!"
toxikon
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It's all about the calories, folks.
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Bread is clean?14
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Need2Exerc1se wrote: »Bread is clean?
Clean, healthy, whatever word you prefer. I hope the message is clear at least. I just thought it was a helpful image for newbies.9 -
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Need2Exerc1se wrote: »Bread is clean?
Only if you wash it first.13 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
You don't think a person new to weight loss would look at the above food items and consider them fairly healthy? Especially if they're coming from a formerly junk food predominant diet?21 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »Bread is clean?
That's the other problem with "eating clean": No one agrees on what it actually, specifically means.
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livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
You don't think a person new to weight loss would look at the above food items and consider them fairly healthy? Especially if they're coming from a formerly junk food predominant diet?
You said clean.
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livingleanlivingclean wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
You don't think a person new to weight loss would look at the above food items and consider them fairly healthy? Especially if they're coming from a formerly junk food predominant diet?
You said clean.
Clean, healthy, tomato, tomato (pronounce them differently in your head...)
I apologize for not using the proper nomenclature.
I hope the message and intent of the image is clear enough for newbies to understand!
Tough crowd today.18 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
You don't think a person new to weight loss would look at the above food items and consider them fairly healthy? Especially if they're coming from a formerly junk food predominant diet?
You said clean.
Clean, healthy, tomato, tomato (pronounce them differently in your head...)
I apologize for not using the proper nomenclature. I hope the message and intent of the image is clear enough for newbies to understand!
Tough crowd today.
Eating clean is not the same as eating healthy. They are completely different!
Anywho...if that was a regular diet, I wouldn't consider it particularly healthy or clean.22 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
You don't think a person new to weight loss would look at the above food items and consider them fairly healthy? Especially if they're coming from a formerly junk food predominant diet?
You said clean.
Clean, healthy, tomato, tomato (pronounce them differently in your head...)
I apologize for not using the proper nomenclature. I hope the message and intent of the image is clear enough for newbies to understand!
Tough crowd today.
Eating clean is not the same as eating healthy. They are completely different!
Anywho...if that was a regular diet, I wouldn't consider it particularly healthy or clean.
I think the image is fairly tongue-in-cheek. I've seen it on the forum a million times. Tons of new people think flavored yogurt is 'healthy', whole wheat is inherently 'healthier' than white, sugary protein/granola bars are 'healthy', etc. All those dieting myths. The image is meant to portray a new person who has fallen for the myths of what is considered "clean/healthy" eating and is baffled by their lack of weight loss. Hope that clears it up.18 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
You don't think a person new to weight loss would look at the above food items and consider them fairly healthy? Especially if they're coming from a formerly junk food predominant diet?
You said clean.
Clean, healthy, tomato, tomato (pronounce them differently in your head...)
I apologize for not using the proper nomenclature. I hope the message and intent of the image is clear enough for newbies to understand!
Tough crowd today.
Eating clean is not the same as eating healthy. They are completely different!
Anywho...if that was a regular diet, I wouldn't consider it particularly healthy or clean.
I think the image is fairly tongue-in-cheek. I've seen it on the forum a million times. Tons of new people think flavored yogurt is healthy, whole wheat is inherently healthier than white, sugary protein/granola bars are healthy, etc. All those dieting myths. The image is meant to portray a new person who has fallen for the myths of what is considered "clean/healthy" eating and is baffled by their lack of weight loss. Hope that clears it up.
I don't see anything in the list that is not healthy. But as noted above clean and healthy aren't the same things.
I think it would be a good meme if it used the word healthy instead of clean. The problem isn't that those foods are not healthy, it's that (presumably) too many calories are being consumed.9 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
You don't think a person new to weight loss would look at the above food items and consider them fairly healthy? Especially if they're coming from a formerly junk food predominant diet?
You said clean.
Clean, healthy, tomato, tomato (pronounce them differently in your head...)
I apologize for not using the proper nomenclature. I hope the message and intent of the image is clear enough for newbies to understand!
Tough crowd today.
Eating clean is not the same as eating healthy. They are completely different!
Anywho...if that was a regular diet, I wouldn't consider it particularly healthy or clean.
I think the image is fairly tongue-in-cheek. I've seen it on the forum a million times. Tons of new people think flavored yogurt is healthy, whole wheat is inherently healthier than white, sugary protein/granola bars are healthy, etc. All those dieting myths. The image is meant to portray a new person who has fallen for the myths of what is considered "clean/healthy" eating and is baffled by their lack of weight loss. Hope that clears it up.
I don't see anything in the list that is not healthy. But as noted above clean and healthy aren't the same things.
I think it would be a good meme if it used the word healthy instead of clean. The problem isn't that those foods are not healthy, it's that (presumably) too many calories are being consumed.
It... it does use the word "healthy"?10 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
You don't think a person new to weight loss would look at the above food items and consider them fairly healthy? Especially if they're coming from a formerly junk food predominant diet?
You said clean.
Clean, healthy, tomato, tomato (pronounce them differently in your head...)
I apologize for not using the proper nomenclature. I hope the message and intent of the image is clear enough for newbies to understand!
Tough crowd today.
Eating clean is not the same as eating healthy. They are completely different!
Anywho...if that was a regular diet, I wouldn't consider it particularly healthy or clean.
I think the image is fairly tongue-in-cheek. I've seen it on the forum a million times. Tons of new people think flavored yogurt is healthy, whole wheat is inherently healthier than white, sugary protein/granola bars are healthy, etc. All those dieting myths. The image is meant to portray a new person who has fallen for the myths of what is considered "clean/healthy" eating and is baffled by their lack of weight loss. Hope that clears it up.
I don't see anything in the list that is not healthy. But as noted above clean and healthy aren't the same things.
I think it would be a good meme if it used the word healthy instead of clean. The problem isn't that those foods are not healthy, it's that (presumably) too many calories are being consumed.
It... it does use the word "healthy"?
So it does. I guess I was projecting from the original title.0 -
Posting to add: The OP is spot on, in the core message (despite our quibbles over terminology ). It's the calories.
From reading truly mind-numbing numbers of posts around here, I'd guess that most would consider that example "eating healthy" or even "eating clean".
I'd consider it "eating healthy" (though I don't/wouldn't eat that menu, by preference). There's (IMO) a wide range of "eating healthy".
I wouldn't consider it "eating clean", because I wouldn't consider anything "eating clean": I consider the term so poorly defined as to be meaningless, so I don't use it.20 -
Posting to add: The OP is spot on, in the core message (despite our quibbles over terminology ). It's the calories.
From reading truly mind-numbing numbers of posts around here, I'd guess that most would consider that example "eating healthy" or even "eating clean".
I'd consider it "eating healthy" (though I don't/wouldn't eat that menu, by preference). There's (IMO) a wide range of "eating healthy".
I wouldn't consider it "eating clean", because I wouldn't consider anything "eating clean": I consider the term so poorly defined as to be meaningless, so I don't use it.
Thanks Ann. It wouldn't be a Friday in the forums without quibbling over terminology.17 -
I like it. Thanks, @toxikon. From a "filthy" IIFYM eater who believes CICO always applies... 13
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Glad to see the overly pedantic squad ruined a perfectly good message. It wouldn't be very MFP like if they hadn't.28
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Obviously I didn't... LOL10
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Edit: Forgiving and forgetting.5
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quiksylver296 wrote: »Too many calories; it's about Calories In and Calories out. Try limiting your calories to 1500 a day. Don't eat back your calories either...
Another thing to consider is changing the types of foods you are eating.
Example of my typical week day meals:
Breakfast: 2 HB eggs and 100 g of cold boiled organic potatoes (source of resistant starch) with sea salt and ground pepper (243 calories)
Lunch: 8 oz Trader Joe's 8 veggie chopped salad with raw apple cider vinegar and 3 oz of organic chicken or turkey breast (170 calories)
Snack: 1.5 oz EPIC bar (Savory high protein snack with grass fed meat, fruit, and nuts) (120 to 200 calories)
Dinner: 4 to 6 oz of lean meat, cooked green veggie (green beans, kale, spinach, rocket, bok choy), cooked squash (pumpkin, butternut) or sweet potato, or mixed veggies (like mushrooms, peppers, onions); sometimes fresh spaghetti sauce (24 oz tomatoes, some onion and butter, spices) mixed with HALF a serving of pasta per person that is cooked and then dumped in to soak up the sauce - this reduces the carbs but because the pasta soaks up the sauce no one will really notice. I do something similar with noodles in goulash or rice in a stir fry. Per serving most of my dinner meals are 600 to 700 calories.
Hope this helps.
Wow. Did you even read the first post? :huh:
That's got to be a new record.3 -
Too many calories; it's about Calories In and Calories out. Try limiting your calories to 1500 a day. Don't eat back your calories either...
Another thing to consider is changing the types of foods you are eating.
Example of my typical week day meals:
Breakfast: 2 HB eggs and 100 g of cold boiled organic potatoes (source of resistant starch) with sea salt and ground pepper (243 calories)
Lunch: 8 oz Trader Joe's 8 veggie chopped salad with raw apple cider vinegar and 3 oz of organic chicken or turkey breast (170 calories)
Snack: 1.5 oz EPIC bar (Savory high protein snack with grass fed meat, fruit, and nuts) (120 to 200 calories)
Dinner: 4 to 6 oz of lean meat, cooked green veggie (green beans, kale, spinach, rocket, bok choy), cooked squash (pumpkin, butternut) or sweet potato, or mixed veggies (like mushrooms, peppers, onions); sometimes fresh spaghetti sauce (24 oz tomatoes, some onion and butter, spices) mixed with HALF a serving of pasta per person that is cooked and then dumped in to soak up the sauce - this reduces the carbs but because the pasta soaks up the sauce no one will really notice. I do something similar with noodles in goulash or rice in a stir fry. Per serving most of my dinner meals are 600 to 700 calories.
Hope this helps.
lol wat5 -
Too many calories; it's about Calories In and Calories out. Try limiting your calories to 1500 a day. Don't eat back your calories either...
Another thing to consider is changing the types of foods you are eating.
Example of my typical week day meals:
Breakfast: 2 HB eggs and 100 g of cold boiled organic potatoes (source of resistant starch) with sea salt and ground pepper (243 calories)
Lunch: 8 oz Trader Joe's 8 veggie chopped salad with raw apple cider vinegar and 3 oz of organic chicken or turkey breast (170 calories)
Snack: 1.5 oz EPIC bar (Savory high protein snack with grass fed meat, fruit, and nuts) (120 to 200 calories)
Dinner: 4 to 6 oz of lean meat, cooked green veggie (green beans, kale, spinach, rocket, bok choy), cooked squash (pumpkin, butternut) or sweet potato, or mixed veggies (like mushrooms, peppers, onions); sometimes fresh spaghetti sauce (24 oz tomatoes, some onion and butter, spices) mixed with HALF a serving of pasta per person that is cooked and then dumped in to soak up the sauce - this reduces the carbs but because the pasta soaks up the sauce no one will really notice. I do something similar with noodles in goulash or rice in a stir fry. Per serving most of my dinner meals are 600 to 700 calories.
Hope this helps.
To each his own, but I'd rather eat what is in the meme.8 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »I like it. Thanks, @toxikon. From a "filthy" IIFYM eater who believes CICO always applies...
I like you!1 -
stevencloser wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Too many calories; it's about Calories In and Calories out. Try limiting your calories to 1500 a day. Don't eat back your calories either...
Another thing to consider is changing the types of foods you are eating.
Example of my typical week day meals:
Breakfast: 2 HB eggs and 100 g of cold boiled organic potatoes (source of resistant starch) with sea salt and ground pepper (243 calories)
Lunch: 8 oz Trader Joe's 8 veggie chopped salad with raw apple cider vinegar and 3 oz of organic chicken or turkey breast (170 calories)
Snack: 1.5 oz EPIC bar (Savory high protein snack with grass fed meat, fruit, and nuts) (120 to 200 calories)
Dinner: 4 to 6 oz of lean meat, cooked green veggie (green beans, kale, spinach, rocket, bok choy), cooked squash (pumpkin, butternut) or sweet potato, or mixed veggies (like mushrooms, peppers, onions); sometimes fresh spaghetti sauce (24 oz tomatoes, some onion and butter, spices) mixed with HALF a serving of pasta per person that is cooked and then dumped in to soak up the sauce - this reduces the carbs but because the pasta soaks up the sauce no one will really notice. I do something similar with noodles in goulash or rice in a stir fry. Per serving most of my dinner meals are 600 to 700 calories.
Hope this helps.
Wow. Did you even read the first post? :huh:
That's got to be a new record.
i was literally just going to ask @Sunna_W where the normal low carb rant was when i saw the edit :laugh:4 -
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livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
You don't think a person new to weight loss would look at the above food items and consider them fairly healthy? Especially if they're coming from a formerly junk food predominant diet?
I think that might be a "I'm eating healthy and low cal" from some people who don't count calories, sure. I don't think that's what people mean by "I'm eating clean" but it actually sheds a lot of light for me on why people who use "clean" to mean basically "pretty healthy" or "food I think is good diet food" claim to be eating "clean" or even "all non processed" when eating lots of processed stuff in reality.
I think it's a good message, so sorry to go off on this tangent; just found it interesting.1 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »Bread is clean?
It all depends on who you ask. "Clean" doesn't really have a definition.4
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