Calories. Quality, or quantity?

HealthyMakeover
HealthyMakeover Posts: 142 Member
edited February 12 in Food and Nutrition
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  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,401 Member
    Well if when you say journey you mean your overall body composition and general health after some weight is lost, then both need to be your focus. To be able to successfully hit macro and micro targets mostly whole and minimally processed foods will be needed and probably a multi and some fish oil. You can just lose weight eating anything you want but the result might not be worth the time and effort that is required to lose the weight you want.
  • Vessecora
    Vessecora Posts: 44
    My knee-jerk reaction to that is definitely clean food. Mostly because of the lack of nutrients in the typical junk food diet and crashing.

    I remember reading somewhere about a guy who ate under 1200 calories of junk food and lost weight though.

    I think it depends on where you're starting from and, well, where you're going xS
  • Dnarules
    Dnarules Posts: 2,081 Member
    Well, for weight loss, I would have to say quantity is the biggest issue. And if 2000 calories is greater than your TDEE, then it doesn't matter how clean the food is, you will still gain weight if you consistently eat over your maintenance calories. And yeah, this gets asked a lot :).
  • prattiger65
    prattiger65 Posts: 1,657 Member
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  • DamePiglet
    DamePiglet Posts: 3,730 Member
    I don't understand the question.
  • jayjay12345654321
    jayjay12345654321 Posts: 653 Member
    You're comparing apples to oranges. Either even it up to 2000 calories worth of macro dense foods versus 2000 calories worth of micro dense foods, or 1200 of each. Calories are calories. If 1200 is a deficit, a person will lose weight regardless of composition. If 2000 is a surplus, a person will gain. Someone could lose weight eating 1200 calories of Twinkies while someone else gains weight eating 2000 calories of carrots. Quality is an entirely separate issue from quantity.
  • Ctrum69
    Ctrum69 Posts: 308 Member
    The thinger here says i have about 1700 calories to play with a day.

    I like my crunchy greasy snack food.. so that's 160 to fritos or potato chips (two ingredients: corn/potatoes, oil, salt)..
    And about 60 to my milk and coffee..

    and about 400 for beer if I decide to have some..

    So the remainder I'm gonna eat in as broad and deep a fashion as possible.

    IE: A carrot and a hershey kiss are about the same. I'll go for the carrot.

    and instead of eating a hard boiled egg and a cheese stick, I'll put a chopped egg and 80 cals of grated cheese on a big honkin salad.. (which is all of about 18 calories, but has lots of fiber, and other nutrients in it).

    So I'd say.. you are creating an artificial "or" in your question.

    You can eat well, AND stay within your dietary restrictions for calories.
  • DamePiglet
    DamePiglet Posts: 3,730 Member
    You're comparing apples to oranges. Either even it up to 2000 calories worth of macro dense foods versus 2000 calories worth of micro dense foods, or 1200 of each. Calories are calories. If 1200 is a deficit, a person will lose weight regardless of composition. If 2000 is a surplus, a person will gain. Someone could lose weight eating 1200 calories of Twinkies while someone else gains weight eating 2000 calories of carrots.

    I was thinking something like this.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,401 Member
    I don't understand the question.
    I didn't see the 2000 vs 1200 comparison.........lol.
  • HealthyMakeover
    HealthyMakeover Posts: 142 Member
    I guess some of you understand, and obviously some don't.
    I'd go and rewrite everything to make it more clear and try to get out what I really am trying to say, but I honestly don't feel like it.

    If I could delete the topic, I would.
    But thanks for answering.
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Too bad no one quoted the OP. Anyone want to summarize the question?
  • Dnarules
    Dnarules Posts: 2,081 Member
    Too bad no one quoted the OP. Anyone want to summarize the question?

    She was actually really embarrassed, so I think I will leave it here. But it was another "is a calorie just a calorie" type of thing. We've done enough of those :).
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