CHEESE?

I eat cheese a lot. Usually just the recommended serving. Sometimes I will eat it twice in one day. I couldn't live without cheese, lol.

I think if you ask 10 "experts" you'll get 10 different opinions. Some say a serving of full-fat dairy helps you lose more weight than not having it. Some say limit it to low-fat dairy and you're fine. Some say avoid it all together. It cracks me up.

This is my opinion: If you want it, enjoy it! (In moderation, of course.) I haven't given up a darn thing this time around and I don't plan to. That includes cheese! (BTW, Sargento has amazing thin-sliced cheeses that run between 40-60 cals a slice depending on the type. Full flavor and none of the junk that gets added to the low-fat and non-fat kinds!)

I just read half this thread as Chinese. I was like huh??

I eat cheese with nearly every meal, hasn't been a problem. Just be careful with portion sizes, as it can be calorie dense. And worth each and every one.

In ten years, "calories in, calories out" will be completely dismissed, just like we dismiss leaches, which were used by doctors through the early 19th century.

Hold the phones people, we have a psychic in the house!!

I forgot. "Calories In, Calories Out" is a religion on this site. Just like Veganism.

Do your own research and you will find that you are better off eating a 200-calorie avocado than a 200-calorie doughnut.

And do you really want to spend the rest of your life counting calories?

Here we go again… the guy who is trying to go against SCIENCE.

and yet, some of us can be in a consistent caloric deficit and not lose weight.

if nutrition, fitness, and weight loss were truly all about the calories (because a calorie is nothing more than a unit of heat), we would be able to consume any material that's capable of burning and go on our merry way. but we can't. we're limited to things that are either protein, fat, or carbohydrate... and even then, there are things our bodies can't handle.

personally, i'm waiting for the day when a genetic test becomes available to point out certain markers that show some people shed weight more easily and more readily, while others hang onto every calorie as if it were their last. since genetics determines everything else about us, it's ridiculous to think it has no bearing and that there's a one-size-fits-all solution to weight loss.

there are already a host of medical conditions, prescription drugs, and vitamin deficiencies that have been shown to impede or even counteract attempts to lose weight. yet people still cling to that "calories in < calories out = weight loss" formula and refuse to acknowledge that anything else might be a factor.

just because it works for you doesn't mean it works for me or anyone else. your mileage WILL vary.

Mmmm cheese.

I think even if I had a lactose intolerance, I would still eat cheese.

This is why we're friends

calories in, calories out.

If you like cheese, eat cheese. Just remember that cheese is high in calorie for low volume so you should definitely weigh it out, if you aren't already.

String cheese is great because it has no carbs and no sugar. The notion that fat makes you fat is archaic. For example, avocados, which have lots of fat, are universally praised by most in the know.

So cheese (or an avocado) is much better than having a sugary yogurt, wheat thins, bagels, or a candy bars for a snack.

In ten years, "calories in, calories out" will be completely dismissed, just like we dismiss leaches, which were used by doctors through the early 19th century.

In ten years, calories in, calories out will still be used just like leaches are still used by the medical community today.

They use leaches all the time when reattaching severed body parts like fingers. They also use maggots to remove necrotic tissue from wounds. Isn't science grand?

Your dogma sounds awfully familiar, troll.

I put Bleu cheese on ma hawt wangs

and yet, some of us can be in a consistent caloric deficit and not lose weight.

There is literally no such person. It is physically impossible.

hi there. i am that person. unless you'd like to argue that either the information on MFP is ridiculously wrong, or my scale is slowly weighing heavier and heavier.

and yet, some of us can be in a consistent caloric deficit and not lose weight.

There is literally no such person. It is physically impossible.

hi there. i am that person. unless you'd like to argue that either the information on MFP is ridiculously wrong, or my scale is slowly weighing heavier and heavier.

It's been proven that being in a calorie deficit causes weight loss. If you take in less than you burn, the body loses weight. Simple as that. If you aren't losing, you're eating more than you think.

and yet, some of us can be in a consistent caloric deficit and not lose weight.

if nutrition, fitness, and weight loss were truly all about the calories (because a calorie is nothing more than a unit of heat), we would be able to consume any material that's capable of burning and go on our merry way. but we can't. we're limited to things that are either protein, fat, or carbohydrate... and even then, there are things our bodies can't handle.

personally, i'm waiting for the day when a genetic test becomes available to point out certain markers that show some people shed weight more easily and more readily, while others hang onto every calorie as if it were their last. since genetics determines everything else about us, it's ridiculous to think it has no bearing and that there's a one-size-fits-all solution to weight loss.

there are already a host of medical conditions, prescription drugs, and vitamin deficiencies that have been shown to impede or even counteract attempts to lose weight. yet people still cling to that "calories in < calories out = weight loss" formula and refuse to acknowledge that anything else might be a factor.

just because it works for you doesn't mean it works for me or anyone else. your mileage WILL vary.

Just because you THINK your in a deficit doesn't mean that you are. The calories out is the most variable factor in the equation, some find it easily, some find it with time, and others can't find it and claim that calories in, calories out doesn't work.

MFP says i'm in a caloric deficit. everything i eat is either weighed or pulled from published nutritional information and entered accordingly. my daily limit is set at within 100 calories of my BMR, and after daily exercise is figured in, my intake is actually below my BMR.

this isn't a case of "THINK". this is a case of data.