Eat healthy or count calories?

islandnutshel

You can eal alot more of the healthy food for the same calories. But it depends on your reason for being here. To lose weight or to get healthy, or both. It is up to you. MFP just gives you the tools

MissMormie

You should really read about the twinky diet:

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html

It's a professor in nutrition who gets into this exact same argument with his class, and he decides to prove that the amout of calories is more important for weight loss than where they come from. So he eats a limited amount of calories on twinkies and other 'unhealthy' food and adds a vitamin supplement to his day. And loses 27 pounds. All tested markers for health increase as well.

He's not saying that anyone should replicate his diet, but it strongly points toward calories being more important (at least for weight loss) than the exact food your eating. On the long term there's no knowledge on how healthy a twinky diet is, but one the short term it works.

Conclusion: Feel free to eat unhealthy some of the time while counting calories, but don't forget to eat some nutrients as well part of the time.

poedunk65

I do both.

Umeboshi

Calories are more important than eating healthy where weight loss is concerned. Eating healthy only matters if you want to be healthier and not just thinner. Weight loss is just calories in vs calories out.

Living4Liz2012

Counting calories

I feel a diet should be fun, and well not feel like a diet. I try and eat healthy, but I find myself falling off track because well I miss my favorite foods. So with counting calories I can eat what I like, and hell have fun with my diet...

awisegirl84

Conclusion: Feel free to eat unhealthy some of the time while counting calories, but don't forget to eat some nutrients as well part of the time.