Calories are Calories....

birdieintx

Calories are calories in terms of weight loss. Health is a different story.

Fitting in treats is fine, eating nothing but crap is just stupid.

This exactly. I have a friend who is a size 2, much much smaller than me. She eats crap food. She gets winded going up a flight of stairs.

strawberrie_milk

If you eat 1400 calories of crap, you would still lose the same amount of weight as if you were eating 1400 calories of healthy food. Regarding macro nutrients, if all of your cals come from fat and carbs, you'd lose weight but that includes fat and muscle. You need a sufficient amount of protein to preserve some of the muscle so you burn more fat instead (you'd still lose the same number of pounds, it's just that body composition would be different with two different protein intakes).

Camsdette

He will probably lose weight, but he will also probably feel tired/cranky all the time and have bad hair/skin. And he will be putting himself at risk for things like heart disease and diabetes.

Also, junk food calories add up much faster, so he will probably be hungry all the time and find that it takes more than 1400 calories to keep himself satisfied

^ That's what I was thinking. I would be starving if all I had was 1400 calories from cake. That's like one slice of cake, depending on the cake.

chanson104

I think that the answer depends upon what your goal is. If it is simply to lose weight then I suppose a calorie is a calorie, but if it is to look and feel better and be healthier then what you eat makes a huge difference!