Is it enough with just watching your calories goal? or does it also matter what I eat?

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    It is so important to eat healthy , calories are not even that important as long as you dont eat unprocessed food if you stick to lots of veggies and fruits with every meal plus your complex carbs like sweet potAto quinoa brown rice and i would recommend lots of fish . Its not the same eating a 500 kcal big mac which is fatty and has no good nutritional value with a 500 kcal superfood salad for example that has the good fats from avocado protein from quinoa fiber from all the veggies etx thah waa just an example .When you eat sweets the sugar breaks down in your body and gets stored as fat. If you eat good food you wont put on weight. A natural detox drink is adding raw unfiltered apple cider vinegar to your water . Also cinnamon tea speeds up your merabolism and its full of antioxidants. Good luck

    The bold is true...the rest is nonsense.

    I eat what most would probably consider a pretty "clean" diet and I've managed to gain weight doing so...calories are what matter most for weight management. Eating well is primarily a matter of nutrition.
  • Ruthhormachea
    Ruthhormachea Posts: 35 Member
    thank you all :)
  • monetfuge
    monetfuge Posts: 43 Member
    edited January 2016
    You re welcome! I'm left feeling nourished and less hungry and less cravings as I eat healthy every month my palets forget cravings ( with help of avocado, coconut oil and fish oils) and my stomach shrinks. I'm feeding my body the vitamins it needs so that too stops cravings. Plus I'm a gorgeing camel type. I can go long bouts of not eating bad food but it's when I treat myself that I act like I haven't had pie and ice cream bf. So knowing your body and being content with its limits and when to push is a must. Plus, I poop like I should so my hair and skin looks healthier and I'm dropping intestine weight or gut weight. So it's a process and your body and research will teach you. We all have to learn to listen and finally get fed up enough to commit. Close to addicted or extreme maybe, but not really.

    Eating well and excersises I.e. ( spin class 1-2ib loss weekly with good eating and calorie count combo, metabolic excersises like boot camp or HIIT) = weight loss and lean muscle.

    Just watching calories= weight loss and flab and skinny sickly person possibly.

    Get an In Body or BMI assessment and set goals. KNOW YOUR BODY!!! Recognize and bow down to truths that work for you. I.e. (I can't do dairy I'm lactose, dairy is high in fat per research. But yogurt is good for intestines. So one spoonful every other day of plain Greek yogurt or in homemade smoothies sounds right for me, with almond or better coconut milk with the fruits I've researched)
  • Ruthhormachea
    Ruthhormachea Posts: 35 Member
    :)
  • booksandchocolate12
    booksandchocolate12 Posts: 1,741 Member
    Nix143 wrote: »
    Ack - you know some people don't know what they believe isn't scientifically accurate. They genuinely believe that stuff - mainly it's because it's what does get peddled on Dr Oz, women's mags, lunchroom banter etc. Most people when they arrive here aren't as clued up as they should be but they don't know that. They honestly believe what they are saying. I always feel a bit sad for well meaning people who get jumped on by the sarky meme brigade. I'm glad you lot all woke up knowing everything about everything.


    And I KNOW people shouldn't give advice if they don't categorically know it is correct but that's the thing - people DON'T know how wrong they are. You hope that through their time here they get educated - like I was lucky enough to do. My gut reaction is a lot of them just won't come back after being roasted and will carry on with their erroneous beliefs.


    Meh. I guess I want everyone to just hug it the *kitten* out. Fool that I am ;)

    We've all fallen for/believed various weight loss woo at one time or another, I'm sure. But the post in question contains SO MUCH of it in one short post. It boggles the mind. I fervently hope that it's a joke and that there's not someone walking around who believes every weight loss myth out there.