Everything in moderation? Really?

Sidesteal

I do not believe in the everything in moderation philosophy either. I am reading this as I eat my Twix candy bar, finish up my donut, & drink the rest of my coffee with a packet of hot cocoa in it full of sugar (seeing as I am already 60 grams over my sugar intake MFP has me on per day), so that I can then eat my processed breakfast sandwich with processed bread and cheese and eggs and sausage dripping in syrup. And I realize... I am quite happy with my 16.3% body fat I have achieved while not limiting myself to anything and I am quite happy with my food too. To each their own! Now I am going to go eat! Have fun debating and eating cardboard

You missed the point...If you eat like you are talking about without doing it in moderation, you're body fat will be WAY higher than 16.9%.

No I didn't... I wasn't missing the point I was being sarcastic and I am at 16.3% body fat and I eat like that every day. Eating healthy has nothing to do with loosing body fat.

Inb4 people reject thermodynamics and claim that your physique is a result of metabolic luck.













P.S. how YOU doin?

jofjltncb6

TBH, I ate like that in my early 30s too, and with similarly low BF.

I certainly wasn't healthy back then, but I was still skinny.

*shrug*

Not sure I believe you. Low BF is a pretty good indicator of health. She's not skinny fat.

You don't believe that I ate a relatively poor diet in my early 30s (and 20s and teens) and kept a low BF? What's not to believe about that? A very physically active young man subsisting on a diet with lots of poptarts, doughnuts, soda, etc. with a low BF isn't (or at least wasn't) uncommon at all. (I'm sure I can find a few six-pack shots from my 20s...but then I guess you just won't believe my diet claims?) Really?

I was going to point out how people often confuse relatively low/lean weight with actual health as they are two very different things, but you jumped straight from confusing the two to highly correlating the two. "Low BF is a pretty good indicator of health"?? I can't be the only one who doesn't believe that, am I?

There's more to health than an active lifestyle at maintenance calories.

beckajw

TBH, I ate like that in my early 30s too, and with similarly low BF.

I certainly wasn't healthy back then, but I was still skinny.

*shrug*

Not sure I believe you. Low BF is a pretty good indicator of health. She's not skinny fat.

You don't believe that I ate a relatively poor diet in my early 30s (and 20s and teens) and kept a low BF? What's not to believe about that? A very physically active young man subsisting on a diet with lots of poptarts, doughnuts, soda, etc. with a low BF isn't (or at least wasn't) uncommon at all. (I'm sure I can find a few six-pack shots from my 20s...but then I guess you just won't believe my diet claims?) Really?

I was going to point out how people often confuse relatively low/lean weight with actual health as they are two very different things, but you jumped straight from confusing the two to highly correlating the two. "Low BF is a pretty good indicator of health"?? I can't be the only one who doesn't believe that, am I?

There's more to health than an active lifestyle at maintenance calories.

I didn't say active lifestyle at maintenance calories. I said BF is a good indicator of health. How do you measure health? Weight isn't a good indicator. Blood work? Yes, I would agree with that. How exactly?