Is A Calorie Really A Calorie?
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DeguelloTex wrote: »Miracle Whip and Manwiches both suck.
If you have ground beef and hamburger buns, make a freaking hamburger. With mustard.
(deli or Dijon)
yellow mustard is for savages0 -
Body turns sugar into fatamwood1528 wrote: »To answer your question, yes, a calorie is a calorie. However, what you eat depends on how the food effects your body. For example, in the documentary, Fed up, they used 160 calories of almonds and compared it to 160 calories of Coke. Yes, it's the same amount of calories but the coke produces a lot of sugar that turned into fat, while the almonds produced fiber. So, you can eat 3,000 calories of veggies and fruits and be fine compare to 3,000 calories of processed fatty foods. Calories are a form of measurement however.
Turning carbohydrates into fat is de novo lipogensis, and while humans can do it, it is generally a metabolic pathway of last resort.
Almonds actually contain a ton of fat.
Nevermind that if you're eating almonds in the United States, chances are they're already a processed food.
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If you can't throw in advertising tag lines now and again, what's the point. But, damn, Miracle Whip makes me think it's mayonnaise gone bad.0
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DeguelloTex wrote: »Miracle Whip and Manwiches both suck.
If you have ground beef and hamburger buns, make a freaking hamburger. With mustard.
Correct answer.0 -
DeguelloTex wrote: »Miracle Whip and Manwiches both suck.
If you have ground beef and hamburger buns, make a freaking hamburger. With avocado and bacon.
FIFY
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DeguelloTex wrote: »If you can't throw in advertising tag lines now and again, what's the point. But, damn, Miracle Whip makes me think it's mayonnaise gone bad.
A calorie is a calorie. Unless it comes from miracle whip in which case it's a spawn of satan.0 -
Additional elements are additional. You have to start with the baseline.DeguelloTex wrote: »Miracle Whip and Manwiches both suck.
If you have ground beef and hamburger buns, make a freaking hamburger. With avocado and bacon.
FIFY
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amwood1528 wrote: »To answer your question, yes, a calorie is a calorie. However, what you eat depends on how the food effects your body. For example, in the documentary, Fed up, they used 160 calories of almonds and compared it to 160 calories of Coke. Yes, it's the same amount of calories but the coke produces a lot of sugar that turned into fat, while the almonds produced fiber. So, you can eat 3,000 calories of veggies and fruits and be fine compare to 3,000 calories of processed fatty foods. Calories are a form of measurement however.
So true! ^^^0 -
First off - haven't read the 3 other pages of replies so this may be redundant. You said something about getting on a plane. Did you fly somewhere and then you all started this conversation? Reason I ask is because if you were on "vacation" you may be more active then you were at home. Different scale could make a difference too at first. Also you were eating more fiber as per the things you said you were eating which does affect mass that is in our body - ie. water and stool. If you were eating higher calories than normal but exercising more then maybe you were burning them off. Boyfriend does walk 2 miles apparently every night - did you join him? A change in activity can cause your body to drop some of the mass that it was holding and that would show as a small drop on the scale. Just a thought. I do believe in the other posts - a calorie is a calorie but for what is best for the body then those calories are not equal. Have you studied intuitive eating? This may be a solution for a while for you. Eating only when hungry and finishing when satisfied. As an alternative to obsession over the calorie counting.0
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This thread is about proving apples won't cause weight gain by making an apples to oranges comparison.0
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DeguelloTex wrote: »Miracle Whip and Manwiches both suck.
If you have ground beef and hamburger buns, make a freaking hamburger. With mustard.
(deli or Dijon)
yellow mustard is for savages
Pardon me,
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DeguelloTex wrote: »Miracle Whip and Manwiches both suck.
If you have ground beef and hamburger buns, make a freaking hamburger. With mustard.
(deli or Dijon)
yellow mustard is for savages
Pardon me,
I don't know what the hell Grey Poupon really is, but it ain't mustard.0 -
Miracle whip sounds like cream in a can
Why would you put that on a sandwich?0 -
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