It must be more than math...

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  • chicpeach
    chicpeach Posts: 302 Member
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    It is the math, you're just not thinking about all the math involved. Yes eating the proper number of calories will generate a weight loss, but those must be nutrient dense calories, not empty or unhealthy ones.

    Think of your foods being fresh or fresh frozen, not from a box, jar, can, bottle or a fast food place. You want the calories you eat to be full of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, proteins, healthy fats and complex carbs. Foods high in refined sugars, sodium, preservatives and unhealthy fats do not help you to lose weight even if you are staying within a calorie count that says you should be. This is because if your body doesn't get the nutrition it needs, it thinks it's starving and holds on to your fat reserves. Giving it good nutrition, it knows it's not starving and will burn fat cells for energy.
  • CarmenSRT
    CarmenSRT Posts: 843 Member
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    Get yourself an accurate kitchen scale. To get the most out of it ensure it measures in both ounces and grams and furthermore that the increments are 0.10 oz and 1 gram. It's pretty much imperative unless everything you eat comes in premeasured individual packages.
    I've dieted off and on for 30 years and still don't know what an "average tomato" is. :laugh:
  • fishgutzy
    fishgutzy Posts: 2,807 Member
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    Regarding calories, the type is also important. We do not all metabolize foods the same way. Of this there is no doubt.
    Most of what the NIH publishes is based on special interest advocacy, not science. The government has a long and colorful history of funding outcomes (not research science) that promote bigger government as the solution to all problems.
    Gary Taubes is among the authors and physicians who are bucking the system to publish actual science.
    His blog is worth checking out. He does not sell any diet plans or or diet books.
    http://garytaubes.com/
  • JasonDetwiler
    JasonDetwiler Posts: 364 Member
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    Regarding calories, the type is also important. We do not all metabolize foods the same way. Of this there is no doubt.
    Most of what the NIH publishes is based on special interest advocacy, not science. The government has a long and colorful history of funding outcomes (not research science) that promote bigger government as the solution to all problems.
    Gary Taubes is among the authors and physicians who are bucking the system to publish actual science.
    His blog is worth checking out. He does not sell any diet plans or or diet books.
    http://garytaubes.com/

    Absolutely. Gary Taubes has a great, easy to understand graphic on how carbohydrates and insulin act together to store fat. Google "gary taubes carbs are killing you."
  • madmickie
    madmickie Posts: 221 Member
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    Keep it simple and keep with the math. You just need to be careful about what you put in there. There's alway's a tendancy to underestimate input and over estimate output (exercise). Be honest and be patient. If you are still not losing weight then look again at the maths. All the various distractions on here about sodium and water and micronutrinets might be important if you wanna be an Olympian and reach your full genetic potential but if all you wanna do is lose weight then eat less and move more. work.
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
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    Taubes the journalist who cherry picks his studies to support his preformed opinions? That Taubes? Surely you jest.
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
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    Regarding calories, the type is also important. We do not all metabolize foods the same way. Of this there is no doubt.
    Most of what the NIH publishes is based on special interest advocacy, not science. The government has a long and colorful history of funding outcomes (not research science) that promote bigger government as the solution to all problems.
    Gary Taubes is among the authors and physicians who are bucking the system to publish actual science.
    His blog is worth checking out. He does not sell any diet plans or or diet books.
    http://garytaubes.com/

    I am sorry, but lolz.
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
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    Regarding calories, the type is also important. We do not all metabolize foods the same way. Of this there is no doubt.
    Most of what the NIH publishes is based on special interest advocacy, not science. The government has a long and colorful history of funding outcomes (not research science) that promote bigger government as the solution to all problems.
    Gary Taubes is among the authors and physicians who are bucking the system to publish actual science.
    His blog is worth checking out. He does not sell any diet plans or or diet books.
    http://garytaubes.com/

    I am sorry, but lolz.

    Thought the same thing Sara, as you can see. These things seem to go in cycles. We haven't had a Taubes thread in a while but now they'll be 3 of them within 2 days if things run true to form.

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