Eating "junk" and losing weight?

Yep, and one of the main problems with processed foods is their sugar content. Ketchup, for example, has more sugar in it than soda pop does.

If people can eat fast food etc on a regular basis & still maintain good cholesterol levels, normal BGL, & great mental health then I say good on them! I would if I could!!!:drinker:

We don't always pay for eating like an idiot now. Sometimes it takes a while to clog arteries, leach the calcium out of your bones, and destroy your kidneys. One thing is for sure. Nobody that has an education in nutrition brags about eating **** for their health. When what you love is nutritionally dead food it's because you lack other, more importent things, to love. Eating a good diet is healthy, and makes your life better. Some people can justify anything, and if you didn't notice yet, people lie. Some people can justify writing bad checks and running up the charge cards. It's perfecty fine until it suddenly isn't. Keep up the good work, and try not to let the BS affect your efforts to be healthy.

We don't always pay for eating like an idiot now. Sometimes it takes a while to clog arteries, leach the calcium out of your bones, and destroy your kidneys. One thing is for sure. Nobody that has an education in nutrition brags about eating **** for their health. When what you love is nutritionally dead food it's because you lack other, more importent things, to love. Eating a good diet is healthy, and makes your life better. Some people can justify anything, and if you didn't notice yet, people lie. Some people can justify writing bad checks and running up the charge cards. It's perfecty fine until it suddenly isn't. Keep up the good work, and try not to let the BS affect your efforts to be healthy.

So people who eat "junk food" are idiots? And since "education" counts for you, let me quote it again since you may not have read it earlier:

Let's hear what the America College of Cardiology states:

Practice moderation. Don't have too much or too little of one thing. All foods, if eaten in moderation, can be part of healthy eating. Even sweets can be okay.

https://www.cardiosmart.org/healthwise/nutr/i/nutri

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Not yet. I doubt whether anyone is doing any long-term studies on it. The vast majority of inmates are young men who are incarcerated for relatively short periods of time. Not a good example.

Sugar can be an issue for the unhealthy.

For the healthy, however...
http://www.simplyshredded.com/the-science-of-nutrition-is-a-carb-a-carb.html

A study comparing weight loss diets with the same energy content and macronutrient composition but a different glycemic index (and therefore load) found no changes in muscle retention or fat loss between groups.
Moreover, the glycemic load of the diets didn’t affect appetite as measured by perceived hunger, fullness, compliance and ad libitum food intake. Even markers of health were unaffected, including blood pressure, heart rate, fecal patterns (yes, they measured this), glucose and insulin metabolism (!) and blood lipids.

The only indicator of the participants’ health that differed between the groups was a higher decrease in LDL cholesterol in the low-glycemic load group. If you’re worried that the above may not apply to bulking, these results were replicated in a study of weight gain instead of loss.
A meta-analysis and systematic review also supported these findings and concluded that the effects on health markers were dependent on their initial values. Low glycemic load diets are good for your health if you’re initially unhealthy (like obese or diabetic), but in healthy populations there was no effect. This is an example of a ceiling effect. You can’t fix what isn’t broken, so if you’re already healthy, eating ‘healthy’ foods at some point stops making you even healthier.

I can easily burn 1200 calories OVER my predicted TDEE in a day (ie, yesterday I did an hour's running followed by a few hour's rock climbing, as well as getting to said rocks).
So if I was going for my conservatively set 1450 calories for a non-workout day, I'd be at 2650 including exercise.
Do I really need to eat 2650 of greens and organic grass fed virgin-petted meat?

I ate all sorts of 'bad' food and still looked fairly trim in the mirror after.
I did feel a bit tired, to be fair - but I think my activity level and six and a bit hours sleep justified that just fine, to be honest!

So, I wonder what addiepray80 bases their opinion on. Fine if that's the case for them, but for others, eating unhealthy (sic) unnatural (sic) food works just fine.

*sigh* Why is it mostly men, who are burning calories like a freight train, who LOVE their junk food...who can not get it through their heads that not everyone is like them. No, we don't think you need to eat 2650 calories worth of "greens and organic, grass fed, virgin-petted meat" but you are building the body today which will stand you in good stead tomorrow or next year or next decade and you would be WISE to pay heed to the nutrient content of your food. Not every single morsel, but overall, your body will thank you with good performance, if you do. Elite athletes understand that a constant diet of junk will not make them champions. Why is it that you people have such a problem with this concept. Junk food doesn't taste THAT good. I just had a snack of cottage cheese and a half ruby grapefruit (and it was organic too). It was wonderful. Now that I am free of my addiction to sugar and wheat, I can actually say that food tastes much better and I don't inhale it anymore. I savor it. Mmmm, healthy food.