What if...

The way I understand weight loss is calories in, calories out so I think you would lose weight in theory. However, since those foods are calorie dense but low in fiber and high in sugar, you would probably feel hungry all the time, and it would be difficult to stay under your calorie limit for the day. & if you did manage to, eventually the health problems caused by poor nutrition would catch up to you. That being said, everything in moderation, right?

My guess is you would be sick and skinny/scrawny...

Do it and log it...you will be good example of why you shouldn't.

What If I ate pure crap?
Breakfast of sugary cereal
Cheeseburger Lunch
soda pop
Pizza dinner.
What if I ate pure crap every single day, forever, BUT, stayed under my calorie goal.
What do you think would happen?

It doesn't matter. You'll be skinny! :drinker:

Please remember that this MFP is also about learning to make healthy choices. If you eat all that stuff but stay under your calories allowed - what are you still doing to your sugar levels, liver, kidneys, heart? Basically if it has more than 5 ingredients it is too processed and you avoid it.

If you lose all the weight and carry on eating that stuff, you will basically put the weight back on because once you are not monitoring what you are eating you will slowly put the weight back on because you have not learnt to make the right choices.

Good luck

You would lose weight but you would feel like crap.

Simply stated. This.

Don't Fret MFPal's! You can creep my diary and see I am a relatively good eater. I was mostly just interested in what people thought of this life style choice. I know girls who live on a basic mcdonalds diet who's bodies are tanned, tonned, and bikini ready. I often wonder if their diet will catch up to them.

Yes
See my post above

You might have the heart of a 80 year old woman by the time you're 50..

Honestly eating foods like that everyday is more of a "crap" decision. You may be getting nutrients in some of those foods, but those foods aren't helping you in the long run. It's not always about losing weight, it's about being HEALTHY.

For a real life example..
I know for a fact that a girl in my gym class senior year ate those kinds of foods everyday for her meals. She was skinny because she starved herself, but she ate whatever she wanted. I want to say she probably weighed 120 lbs..
Now, I weighed near 150 lbs. I ate super healthy, no junk at all.
Every monday we had to run a mile in under 12:00 minutes as a grade for the class. I could run the mile in 9 minutes, even though I was fatter. It took her the entire 12 minutes to get through it and she was huffing and puffing at the end.

Pizza and burgers aren't crap. They are full of macro and micro nutrients. Now, if you're diabetic or pre-diabetic, you might want to skip the sugary cereal, but even that can fit into a balanced diet. Captain Crunch, for instance, is surprisingly high in iron and zinc, and the milk that goes on it provides calcium and protein. Take a deep breath, stop judging food without actually looking at its nutritional profile, and you'll feel much better. Whatever you choose to eat.

QFT.

I'll give the "crappy food" people the soda pop, though the sugary cereal is borderline (like you said, most are fortified). Cheeseburgers and pizza aren't crap unless you make them crap. Others might not want to eat them, but I like cheeseburgers and pizza and eat them often enough.