Question about what my dietician said

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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,961 Member
    edited April 23

    And…new one on me, to eat 200 cals every 2 hrs. Said body burns/uses 200 calories every 2 hours and anything eaten beyond 200 cals gets stored as fat.

    LOL… That's definitely a new one. Things like this blow my mind - do people who believe stuff like this just literally never look around? How do they explain the millions of people not doing this, who are not just randomly getting fat?

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,375 Member
    edited April 23
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48578862#Comment_48578862

    The 200 calories every 2 hours doesn't have good research support, for sure. There have been studies comparing overall isocaloric/similar nutrition diets on different eating schedules, and the total bodyfat impact over a period of time is pretty much the same no matter the timing of calorie intake. Our bodies are storing energy and utilizing energy all day long, though it's with mechanisms more complicated than just the fat storage cycle. If we're in a calorie deficit over a day or few, sooner or later the deficit gets filled by burning stored body fat. When that happens, we lose fat weight.

    On the surface of it, even, it's a weird idea. My body doesn't burn an exact X calories per hour anyway. Right now, I'm sitting in a chair typing. I'll burn fewer calories this hour. Earlier in the evening, I was out rowing on a river. Betcha I burned more calories that hour. Am I supposed to have a calorie meter running, and eat precisely the number of calories that I burn in a particular hour all within that same hour? That's ridiculous, IMO.

  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,965 Member

    @yakkystuff before my own jaw hits the ground….

    so let's assume that you can only use up 200 Cals every 2 hours (at a pace for 2400 per day, I assume).

    And that you eat… oh my kittens… that you eat 600 Cals this hour. And…. oh my kittens 400 Cals gets stored as absolute fat. Oh what to do what to what to do….

    Let's run this crazy experiment. In one hour you don't eat the extra 200 calories you spend. Let's be rebels. Maybe you don't even eat the extra 200 Cal you spend on the third hour either.

    My gosh. What is going to happen? Where are the magical calories that you've just spend and didn't eat during these two hours magically going to appear from?

    Could it be remotely possible that they will come back out from the magical fat stores you replenished 2 hours ago?

    I mean they will first come from the magical glycose in your blood plus glycogen if you're moving around or from the magical fat stores you have or a combination. But we are dealing with someone who says that you store as fat the extra 400 calories you haven't even managed to digest yet, so why am I bothering to try to be more precise.

    Not to mention that if you're converting back and forth from fat stores you're actually using up energy… so that would be a good thing to do if you're trying to maximize spending of energy: the more inefficient conversions you force the more energy you spend.

    Like. OK. I admit to being triggered. I don't enjoy being talked down by professionals. So either she is an idiot. Or she is talking down. Take your pick… but on your behalf I am just a little bit ticked.

  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,643 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48578862#Comment_48578862

    Yeah, I read everyday how messed up advice from dietitians can get and another good reason to be your own investigative health care person for yourself.

  • yakkystuff
    yakkystuff Posts: 592 Member

    Ty everyone. Appreciated the reasoning and, also Pav for the laughs!

    I still also cannot think through the 200 cals every 2 hours. It does not match any of the typical advice I've ever read or been given.

    The macro and cal recommendation is more typical; 50% carbs, 30% protein and 20% fat with 1500 kcals.

    I found it interesting that OP received the same targets when re-introducing foods after a medically supervised VLCD.

    Those targets for me for reducing weight is actually aggressive for my particulars.

    Will hear her out with a few grains of salt and may request a different RD. I did not appreciate the rigid, 'believe and do what I say' approach - it was beyond 'here are some ideas that may help'.

    I think OP is correct in approach to question and try to understand the recommendations, and look forward to hearing how it goes @Eleonora91

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