Calorie Limit ........... Does it matter what foods you eat?

hstallings13

I'm all about balance. Managing to work in the foods I love in much smaller portions but adding in much more healthy food. I want to be healthy and in shape, but at the same time what is the point if I can't enjoy some of the stuff I truely love. In my opipion its all about the balance

Schwiggity

this is what my friend does on her weight watchers diet

Then she's not really following Weight Watchers.

Hehehe, love this response! lol

I'm lost...

LisaMarieee

I would think that you would want to make a change and eat more healthy food.

If you eat crap then you will feel like crap and ultimately you will hinder your weight loss goals.

Well said.

I used to eat extremely unhealthy before and I felt sluggish all the time. Now I eat healthy foods and I always have a ton of energy and I feel 1000x better. It's fine to treat yourself but generally you should stick to a healthy diet for the most part.

Avalonis

Let me preface this by very clearly stating that I am still extremely obese, near four-hundred pounds, and everything I say should be taken with a grain of salt AND a spoonful of sugar (Mmm. That's tasty medicine!) until I prove myself further with successful weight loss and better health. Having said that, I have to state that I think the ubiquitous insistence that diet, nutrition, and fitness are all equally necessary for weight loss is at very least overstated, and perhaps even counterproductive, especially where the extremely overweight or morbidly obese are concerned. It should come as a surprise to no one that our plates are already both literally and figuratively overfilled. I am not trying to suggest that nutrition and exercise have no place in weight loss/maintenance efforts. I am however concerned that we may be discouraging weight loss for many, and thereby inhibiting progress toward better overall health with nutritional and fitness excellence combined with caloric restriction. Like the great philosopher Chris Rock once said of those telling him that after getting his G.E.D. he should now go to college: "SLOW DOWN! It should be obvious that high school was already kickin' my a.." So, to answer the question asked by the O.P., "Does it matter what foods you eat?", I would have to answer that in the short term, for weight loss, absolutely positively and without reservation NO IT DOESN'T. Of course, while I was writing this post I was enjoying a very healthful green curry shrimp and scallops with LOTS of vegetables, fairly low fat, low carb and low calorie, and now I'm going for a mile or two walk. What do I know? YMMV.

Jeff

As I posted earlier... Technically it doesn't matter, but in practice it DOES because you end up not sticking to your diet because you feel like you are starving all the time. So you (or at least most people) end up binging, and eating more than the calorie restriction they are on.

Technically, you will lose weight.... while you can stick to it. Good luck when you no longer can. Thats why so many people lose a bunch of weight, and then pack it all back on and then some. They make a temporary diet restriction without changing their eating habits, and then when they finish their diet, they still have no idea how to portion control or make healthy choices.