Is losing weight all about caloric deficits?
Drdmike
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Would someone lose weight if they ate fewer calories but they ate nothing but ice cream and soda?
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Of course, but less calories might be less than you think because we don't digest every single calorie we consume, some are a lot easier to absorb. Ice cream and soda are probably some of the easiest to absorb so you'd be getting every single calorie.
If you ate the same number of calories in uncrushed linseeds you'd probably absorb less than 75% of them.0 -
Yes.0
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Yes, although you may not be the healthiest person in the long run and it's an unsustainable and boring diet.0
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Yes, but they'd also be miserable and unhealthy.0
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Agreed with everyone above!0
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No. Other factors come into play with caloric deficits that can affect weight loss or gain. Ultimately, yes, weight loss is about a deficit - but weight loss isn't always fat loss.0
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Ice cream doesn't count as calories.
It just counts as awesome.0 -
Yes, people have done experiments only eating twinkles and junk, or only eating McDonalds. They lost weight.0
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Yes, but they'd also be miserable and unhealthy.
I dunno, if I had to pick... death by ice cream might be the best way to go.0 -
if they dont have issues with insulin then yeah they would0
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Yes, but they'd also be miserable and unhealthy.
I dunno, if I had to pick... death by ice cream might be the best way to go.
:laugh:
Preaching to the choir there-- I've got 13 kinds of ice cream in my freezer at the moment.
The problem is I would be starving if I ate nothing but 1800 calories of ice cream. That's only 4 or 4.5 cups of food.0 -
Of course, but less calories might be less than you think because we don't digest every single calorie we consume, some are a lot easier to absorb. Ice cream and soda are probably some of the easiest to absorb so you'd be getting every single calorie.
If you ate the same number of calories in uncrushed linseeds you'd probably absorb less than 75% of them.
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Not always. Hormones play a huge role in weight loss. I've seen lots of people do near starvation diets while doing 2 hours of cardio a day and not lose weight. Leptin plays a big role. If your leptin levels are high you will lose more weight than low levels while calories in/out remain the same0
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Would someone lose weight if they ate fewer calories but they ate nothing but ice cream and soda?
Have you not paid attention to the answers you've received in your other threads?0 -
I lost weight and have a reward out - its name was Fido0
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Of course, but less calories might be less than you think because we don't digest every single calorie we consume, some are a lot easier to absorb. Ice cream and soda are probably some of the easiest to absorb so you'd be getting every single calorie.
If you ate the same number of calories in uncrushed linseeds you'd probably absorb less than 75% of them.0 -
1) A calorie is a calorie.
2) Calories in/calories out. Law of physics.
Weight loss is a multi-billion-dollar industry based upon second-grade math.0 -
You could do that, but you'd be hungry all the time and pretty miserable despite the ice cream as that's not a lot of food to make up your daily calorie allowance and it won't keep you full (if at all) for very long.0
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1) A calorie is a calorie.
2) Calories in/calories out. Law of physics.
Weight loss is a multi-billion-dollar industry based upon second-grade math.
This is not true. I'm guessing you're trying to invoke the laws of thermodynamics. The second law of thermodynamics contradicts calorie in vs calorie out. Here is a link to read, although no one ever reads these- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC506782/
last I checked they were not teaching entropy calculation in second grade0
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