why does sugar make us fat
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Eating more calories than you burn makes you fat.
Sugar has 15 calories/teaspoon.
All foods in moderation. Sustainability is key for maintaining weight loss.10 -
Realistically, just don't OVERDO it (and this is subjective based on your body/height/goals, etc.)...Honestly, u can eat pizza, cheeseburgers and brownies everyday and lose weight consistently every week (with or without exercise--obviously exercise helps more)...I do agree that some foods are harder to resist eating more of compared to others (ie. french fries vs sweet potatoes)...but that's something you have to learn to control/strategize (esp if u struggle--like if u live alone, instead of buying an entire pizza and cooking it in your oven and putting the leftover in the fridge, you could just go somewhere like Costco and order a couple slices, eat them there and leave).
One thing that really, really hindered my progress when I was obese was setting up this perfect healthy diet plan and inevitably "failing" with "taboo foods" like a slice of pizza or a cookie and then thinking "well, i messed up today or this week, might as well eat the entire pizza or stack of oreos...and start over tomorrow"... this is very dangerous (it's all mental--it's not even real hunger) and won't work in the long run. Eat a couple slices of pizza or have that medium Starbucks frappe (a reasonable amount) and then put your foot down for the day.18 -
because it's addictive. JK.
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imajollyroger wrote: »Sugar and carbs absolutely make you fat! What do you think beer belly is? There's no fat in beer. The body converts sugar/carbs into fat if it can't utilize it immediately for fuel. Doesn't matter if excess calories. I can run a calorie deficit and gain weight if I consume too many carbs without using them. Sugar and carbs also make you more hungry like eating Chinese food. Your insulin gets high which blocks your satiety signals to your brain. Your body won't burn fat until the glycogen is depleted. First it uses glycogen, then it uses fat as reserve.
No they don't.
I eat sugar. By your logic I should be gaining weight, not losing it. Please explain how I've lost a little over 90lbs, @imajollyroger? I'm all ears/eyes.
Also, fat does NOT make anyone fat. That's old school weight loss woo.
You know what actually makes all mammals fat?
Excess calories.7 -
traceyroy54 wrote: »Why?
Cos you take sugar and mix it with carbohydrates and fats to create things like cake and cookies
Because mixed together it makes highly palatable, highly calorific and extremely cheap foods that are easy to grab and go
Because sugar on its own is not the culprit, it's the calories in the products you like to snarfle like a piggy
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imajollyroger wrote: »Sugar and carbs absolutely make you fat! What do you think beer belly is? There's no fat in beer. The body converts sugar/carbs into fat if it can't utilize it immediately for fuel. Doesn't matter if excess calories. I can run a calorie deficit and gain weight if I consume too many carbs without using them. Sugar and carbs also make you more hungry like eating Chinese food. Your insulin gets high which blocks your satiety signals to your brain. Your body won't burn fat until the glycogen is depleted. First it uses glycogen, then it uses fat as reserve.
No... Just no.6 -
traceyroy54 wrote: »Why?
You make yourself fat when you consistantly consume more calories than your body needs to maintain a healthy weight. You might consume an excess amount of calories from foods/drinks with sugar or from any other food or drink.
If you choose to consume sugar and other foods within the right number of calories then you will not gain weight.
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/loseweight/Pages/understanding-calories.aspx6 -
traceyroy54 wrote: »Why?
Cos you take sugar and mix it with carbohydrates and fats to create things like cake and cookies
Because mixed together it makes highly palatable, highly calorific and extremely cheap foods that are easy to grab and go
Because sugar on its own is not the culprit, it's the calories in the products you like to snarfle like a piggy
Quoting self, cos found this
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Because it hits the same brain receptors as cocaine, thus we want more and more.5
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Awww
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Because it hits the same brain receptors as cocaine, thus we want more and more.
1) you ruined my pig gifs by sneaking in the middle
2) don't be silly you're equating food which possibly has behavioural addictive properties in some individuals with drugs which are physically addictive through the anticipatory dopamine release that you also get through petting puppies...or pigs8 -
Okay...it's time to stop having sex, watching movies, gaming, reading, painting, cuddling, eating ice cream......
Yeah, no.
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Because it hits the same brain receptors as cocaine, thus we want more and more.
1) you ruined my pig gifs by sneaking in the middle
2) don't be silly you're equating food which possibly has behavioural addictive properties in some individuals with drugs which are physically addictive through the anticipatory dopamine release that you also get through petting puppies...or pigs
everyone is so quick to jump on a post it was a freaking joke, sarcasm
I personally love to be silly life is too short not to be.
As a side point rats did go for sugar more than cocaine:).1 -
Because it hits the same brain receptors as cocaine, thus we want more and more.
1) you ruined my pig gifs by sneaking in the middle
2) don't be silly you're equating food which possibly has behavioural addictive properties in some individuals with drugs which are physically addictive through the anticipatory dopamine release that you also get through petting puppies...or pigs
everyone is so quick to jump on a post it was a freaking joke, sarcasm
I personally love to be silly life is too short not to be.
As a side point rats did go for sugar more than cocaine:).
Yes, while being starved they chose the substance that actually had calories. Shocking.9 -
Smart rats.4
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lemurcat12 wrote: »Smart rats.
Maybe they escaped from NIMH10 -
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