Please explain calories vs nutrition break down

rikkejanell2014
rikkejanell2014 Posts: 312 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
if you are meeting your calorie deficit every day but when you look at your nutrition you're going over in sodium, saturated fat different things like that will you still maintain weight loss ?is it just that you're not giving your body the proper nutrition or you're overdoing it?

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  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    Also, many of the nutrients from vegetables are fat-soluble. This means that you should consume, for instance, olive oil with salad greens, so that a fat can be present in the gut when the vegetables are digested. This allows your body to absorb the nutrients from the vegetables, which is the point of eating them.
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    edited December 2016
    Watch the calories. You will be fine. :)
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Yeah, you will still lose weight, there just may (or may not) be other issues, depending.

    If you are mostly just interested in weight loss, it doesn't matter.

    If you are interested in nutrition and health (which I'd encourage), then MFP's numbers aren't something to obsess about, there are better sources (some are decent general goals, but you shouldn't think that they are all equal or everyone is the same or that going over occasionally is some big thing).
  • Boom_Slime
    Boom_Slime Posts: 6 Member
    Nutrition = General Health
    Calories = Weight Loss/Gain

    If you have any sort of deficiency then it's important to look into your macros, micros, and vitamins so you can get what you're missing and not get terribly ill. If you're solely looking for weight loss and that alone, then you only need to worry about calories.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    edited December 2016
    One thing at a time OP. Stay the course slow and steady, and dont fill your brain with all of the minor details, you'll end up driving yourself mad. Eg stop majoring in the minors :smile:
  • rikkejanell2014
    rikkejanell2014 Posts: 312 Member
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    One thing at a time OP. Stay the course slow and steady, and dont fill your brain with all of the minor details, you'll end up driving yourself mad. Eg stop majoring in the minors :smile:

    Im just asking questions.
  • Darton2010
    Darton2010 Posts: 137 Member
    Don't worry about sodium, just make sure it's quality salt like sea and forget the other natural salts, Morton table salt is garbage and has no nutritional value.

    Stay away from refined and processed sugars, make desert fruit being it has fiber and other things that help not spike your blood sugar.

    In my experience, I can eat nothing but twinkies and be under my calorie count but be hungry and miserable due to the empty cals but gain massive weight due to high in carbs.

    Carbs are more of the bodies fuel, you want to keep those low, keep protein high.

    Long story short yes you can lose weight by staying under your cal limit but not all the weight loss will be fat, you will lose muscle if you don't get proteins.

    Stay away from artificial vitamins! Do the research, they are directly linked to cancer and our bodies don't absorb them well, make FOOD your vitamins.

    Good luck
  • tlflag1620
    tlflag1620 Posts: 1,358 Member
    Darton2010 wrote: »
    Don't worry about sodium, just make sure it's quality salt like sea and forget the other natural salts, Morton table salt is garbage and has no nutritional value.

    Stay away from refined and processed sugars, make desert fruit being it has fiber and other things that help not spike your blood sugar.

    In my experience, I can eat nothing but twinkies and be under my calorie count but be hungry and miserable due to the empty cals but gain massive weight due to high in carbs.

    Carbs are more of the bodies fuel, you want to keep those low, keep protein high.

    Long story short yes you can lose weight by staying under your cal limit but not all the weight loss will be fat, you will lose muscle if you don't get proteins.

    Stay away from artificial vitamins! Do the research, they are directly linked to cancer and our bodies don't absorb them well, make FOOD your vitamins.

    Good luck

    Wut?

  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    SusanMFindlay wrote: »
    Darton2010 wrote: »
    Don't worry about sodium, just make sure it's quality salt like sea and forget the other natural salts, Morton table salt is garbage and has no nutritional value.

    From a nutritional perspective, sea salt is basically identical to table salt. If you prefer the texture, go for it; it's certainly no worse than table salt. But sodium chloride is sodium chloride.

    Yeah, I've always thought salt is salt, is salt.

  • LenGray
    LenGray Posts: 843 Member
    Nutrients are substances that provide nourishment essential for growth and the maintenance of life. Nutrients, in regard to weight loss and general health, can be broken down into micro and macro nutrients.

    Macro nutrients are the largest building blocks of nutrition and include protein, fat, and carbs-- elements which make up the majority of one's diet and are generally only available through consuming food and drink.

    Micro nutrients are such things as sodium, iron, sugar, etc. They make up the minority of one's diet. Through diet, multi-vitamins, and even contact with direct sunlight, one is able to consume micro nutrients.

    Calories are an unit of energy, specifically the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1gram of water through 1degree Celsius. It's also used to determine the energy value of food within the human body.

    If you're interested in losing weight, monitoring the amount of energy you burn through calories is essential. Theoretically, burning more calories than you consume and creating an energy deficit is the only step required in weight loss.

    However, by monitoring your macro nutrients you can achieve better health, namely by preserving muscle (protein), boosting energy (carbs), preserving skin and hair health (protein), regulating blood sugar (carbs), regulating body temperature (fats), and protecting your vital organs from damage (fats).

    Micro nutrients can also be observed for health purposes. For example, sodium, as a nutrient, plays a key role in monitoring blood pressure through attracting and holding water in the blood stream. This helps maintain the liquid portion of the blood. If too much sodium is consumed on a regular basis, however, this may cause the volume of blood within the body to increase because of water retention and cause high blood pressure, a common health concern.
  • spzjlb
    spzjlb Posts: 599 Member
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    SusanMFindlay wrote: »
    Darton2010 wrote: »
    Don't worry about sodium, just make sure it's quality salt like sea and forget the other natural salts, Morton table salt is garbage and has no nutritional value.

    From a nutritional perspective, sea salt is basically identical to table salt. If you prefer the texture, go for it; it's certainly no worse than table salt. But sodium chloride is sodium chloride.

    Yeah, I've always thought salt is salt, is salt.

    Yes, sodium chloride is always sodium chloride. Some table salts are iodised (iodized, if you prefer) because iodine deficiency is a significant problem in some inland regions (where populations don't have access to seafoods that are iodine rich) and certainly was historically. Sea salts may have other micronutrients hanging on, too. But these are tiny differences - unless you are iodine-deficient.

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