A Calorie is NOT just a Calorie

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  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
    Thanks I'll check that site out.
  • fast_eddie_72
    fast_eddie_72 Posts: 719 Member
    It matters where your calories come from for a variety of reasons.

    How can it if they are all exactly the same?
  • fast_eddie_72
    fast_eddie_72 Posts: 719 Member
    I'm not arguing. I'm trying to explain.
    But I give up.

    Good luck to all. Have fun spending your dollars.

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    now... where'd that nuttellabrah get to...

    You're frustraited because you keep explaining the same thing and I keep agreeing with you. You can explain it some more if you want. I'll keep agreeing. Whatever. I'm good.
  • MireyGal76
    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
    I'm not arguing. I'm trying to explain.
    But I give up.

    Good luck to all. Have fun spending your dollars.

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    now... where'd that nuttellabrah get to...

    You're frustraited because you keep explaining the same thing and I keep agreeing with you. You can explain it some more if you want. I'll keep agreeing. Whatever. I'm good.

    lol

    you say you agree and then you say something i think is contradictory to that. And then you agree some more, and then i think you contradict. (edited to say "i think" cuz I could be misinterpreting...it's happened on occasion)

    But hey, if we agree then...
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  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
    It matters where your calories come from for a variety of reasons.

    How can it if they are all exactly the same?

    Good question.!!!!
  • stevencloser
    stevencloser Posts: 8,911 Member
    It matters where your calories come from for a variety of reasons.

    How can it if they are all exactly the same?
    For reasons that have nothing to do with the calorie itself as we're saying over and over again.
  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
    I'm not arguing. I'm trying to explain.
    But I give up.

    Good luck to all. Have fun spending your dollars.

    b6488ee3.gif

    now... where'd that nuttellabrah get to...

    You're frustraited because you keep explaining the same thing and I keep agreeing with you. You can explain it some more if you want. I'll keep agreeing. Whatever. I'm good.

    Basically a calorie is a just a calorie, but depending on where there coming from they do not all give your body the same amount of energy to use post digestion.
  • kgreenRDLDN
    kgreenRDLDN Posts: 248 Member
    Nice to learn that I can just eat what I want and lose weight. I want seven cheeseburgers and fries with a milk shake. Every day.

    Still say I can eat what I want and lose weight?

    It's accurate to say you can incorporate any food you like into a diet that will result in losing weight. It isn't accurate to say you can eat whatever you want. Not the same thing. And I don't know why people are so stuck on that. I eat a Ruben sandwich from Arbys about once every two weeks. Why? Because I want it. But I can't eat whatever I want whenever I want like I used to if I want to lose weight. Just as I don't have to give up eating the foods I love. Both are true. They are not mutually exclusive. This isn't this hard.

    You can eat whatever you want within your calorie goals. if you want to eat cheeseburgers and fries with a small milkshake daily then as long as you decrease calories in other area of your day to meet your goal then you will still lose weight. However this would not be the healthiest choice.
  • fast_eddie_72
    fast_eddie_72 Posts: 719 Member
    Look, this really is silly and we really are all saying exactly the same thing.
  • parkscs
    parkscs Posts: 1,639 Member
    Look, this really is silly and we really are all saying exactly the same thing.

    No, this wonderful discussion definitely deserves a third page. Let me get things back on track...

    You're wrong! Admit it!
  • MireyGal76
    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
    I'm not arguing. I'm trying to explain.
    But I give up.

    Good luck to all. Have fun spending your dollars.

    b6488ee3.gif

    now... where'd that nuttellabrah get to...

    You're frustraited because you keep explaining the same thing and I keep agreeing with you. You can explain it some more if you want. I'll keep agreeing. Whatever. I'm good.

    Basically a calorie is a just a calorie, but depending on where there coming from they do not all give your body the same amount of energy to use post digestion.
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  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
    Man I love Elmo
  • ChrisM8971
    ChrisM8971 Posts: 1,067 Member
    It matters where your calories come from for a variety of reasons.

    How can it if they are all exactly the same?

    Sorry but it would seem that you are being deliberately obtuse and are cherry picking lines to argue. Maybe the putting that statement another way might help you understand.

    It matters what foods you obtain your calorie requirements from for health reasons. A calorie is a calorie in terms of energy, except when a few of them club together and disguise themselves as a Kilojoule. Where we get them from defines the micro and macro nutrients we get.

    The twinkie and mcdonalds diets are extreme methods of proving that you lose weight no matter where you get the calories from providing you eat at a deficit. Are they healthy diets? Not in my opinion

    To maintain health chose foods within your calorie goal that contain all the nutrients you need.

    So calories are just calories for energy purposes
  • allana1111
    allana1111 Posts: 390 Member
    well we might as well just keep talking so the thread rolls again. even though we all basically agree
  • snikkins
    snikkins Posts: 1,282 Member
    I'm not arguing. I'm trying to explain.
    But I give up.

    Good luck to all. Have fun spending your dollars.

    b6488ee3.gif

    now... where'd that nuttellabrah get to...

    You're frustraited because you keep explaining the same thing and I keep agreeing with you. You can explain it some more if you want. I'll keep agreeing. Whatever. I'm good.

    The part people are disagreeing with is your desire to use "calorie" and "macronutrient" interchangeably.
  • MireyGal76
    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
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    (I think gifs are just as productive at this point)
  • MireyGal76
    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
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  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
    Yes but they don't all deliver the same end hit.
  • ChrisM8971
    ChrisM8971 Posts: 1,067 Member
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    I think I remember that episode :laugh:
  • MireyGal76
    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
    Yes but they don't all deliver the same end hit.

    you mean... *gasp* a GIF is NOT a GIF?

    OMG
  • Cortelli
    Cortelli Posts: 1,369 Member
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  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
    Not a GIF s are creat equal. :smile:
  • ChrisM8971
    ChrisM8971 Posts: 1,067 Member
    Yes but they don't all deliver the same end hit.

    Ok I cannot post the study but am sure that I read that the differences are so small as to make no noticeable difference when counting calories for weight loss.
  • MireyGal76
    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
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    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
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  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
    I remember that episode.
  • DamePiglet
    DamePiglet Posts: 3,730 Member
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    You & me both.
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  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
    Yes but they don't all deliver the same end hit.

    Ok I cannot post the study but am sure that I read that the differences are so small as to make no noticeable difference when counting calories for weight loss.

    Fats 98%
    Animal based proteins 90 - 95%

    Some carbs (probably twinkles) less than 80%

    Yeah not much difference!!!!
  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    It matters where your calories come from for a variety of reasons.

    How can it if they are all exactly the same?

    Because there are properties to foods that exist outside of energy value.
  • Cortelli
    Cortelli Posts: 1,369 Member
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    You & me both.
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