Why you SHOULDN'T count calories

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Track calories in and out regardless of it being healthy or unhealthy.

I'll take the chocolate bar, thanks.

^this.

You can gain weight eating "healthy" foods just as easily as "unhealthy" foods.
http://www.healthylivingheavylifting.com/the-perils-of-clean-eating/

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You can gain weight eating healthy the same as you can eating junk. EVERYTHING, except water, has calories. Because the basic premise of weight loss is calories in versus calories out, counting calories makes sense if you want to lose.

Not true. Celery has NEGATIVE calories!! :devil: I read it on the internet.


Also, 90% of posts on Pinterest link to spam or complete junk.


You should probably also know that 86.45% of all statistics are made up.




GAWD people.



ETA: I'm sipping on a calorie free Diet Coke. *kitten*'s delicious.

In.

I'm not sure there's a straight, black-and-white answer on this. For sure, the amount of calories you consume directly correlates to your weight. You DO need to understand how many your body needs, how many you're actually eating, etc. That's why calorie counting is SO effective for both weight loss and weight gain. However, the QUALITY of the calories you consume are extremely important as well. The downside to having that 250 calorie chocolate bar instead of the 350 calorie smoothie is that the chocolate bar will make your blood sugar spike and then crash, resulting in a need to eat even more later on, whereas the fiber and protein in your smoothie would keep you fuller longer and help you not eat as many calories later on. Plus, the vitamins and minerals in the smoothie help your body operate so much better than the sugar and fat in the chocolate bar will, thus making your weight loss efforts more effective because your body is working more efficiently. You can't really go to either extreme. If you're eating all healthy foods but still consuming way more calories than your body needs, your body still will not be able to process all those calories and you will gain weight. If you eat all junk food while staying under your calorie limit, you will have an incredibly hard time feeling full and resisting the temptation to eat more, plus your weight loss will be dramatically stinted because your body is not getting the nutrition it needs.

All I know is, substituting a candy bar for a banana is not healthier for me. Because after I eat that banana, I'm still going to eat the candy bar. There's just no substitute for yummy foods.

I'm very happy counting calories. It takes some time but is worth it. With my Congestive Heart failure this is the best diet ever.

My husband doesn't count calories. He's never been overweight, either. He doesn't eat "clean" or whatever. He eats what he wants, when he wants and until he doesn't want any more. Sometimes that means one bite of a candy bar, another time it might mean large portion seconds for a meal.
He's not a special food-processing machine... he just eats at maintenance level and always has.


I have no idea what any of this has to do with the title.

You can gain weight eating healthy the same as you can eating junk. EVERYTHING, except water, has calories. Because the basic premise of weight loss is calories in versus calories out, counting calories makes sense if you want to lose.

Not true. Celery has NEGATIVE calories!! :devil: I read it on the internet.


Also, 90% of posts on Pinterest link to spam or complete junk.


You should probably also know that 86.45% of all statistics are made up.




GAWD people.



ETA: I'm sipping on a calorie free Diet Coke. *kitten*'s delicious.

And I'm sure whatever you read on the Internet saying celery has negative calories is reliable.