Calories empty or full

robinalexis · November 2017

Just read the article on calories in vs exercise or diet or both. Which prompted me to me to think if you eat 1200 calories and the majority are empty (as in rice cakes and alcohol) can you still loose weight ?

Mycophilia · November 2017

Yes? "Empty" calories are still calories.

sijomial · November 2017

Why wouldn't you lose weight?

Not seeing how you could think a low quality diet of 1200 cals would somehow prevent weight loss but a higher quality diet of 1200 cals would perhaps allow someone to lose weight.

Those poor souls in concentration camps didn't have high quality diets.

Alatariel75 · November 2017

of course you would. Might do some crappy things for your nutritional profile but you'd lose weight.

JaydedMiss · November 2017

I mean...duh lol. I could lose eating nothing but oil. But Id feel like complete *kitten*

Wynterbourne · November 2017

A calorie is a calorie despite it's nutritional value. Yes, you would lose weight, but you would very likely be falling short of meeting your nutritional needs which would most likely cause issues if done long term.

Ready2Rock206 · November 2017

Of course. What makes you think you wouldn't lose weight?

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld · November 2017

You are mixing up nutrition and calories.

Calories are just a measure of energy. It fuels our bodies. So like an inch is an inch, nothing changes that. It doesn't matter if that inch is an inch of mouldy rag or an inch of gold thread. It is still an inch in measurement.

If you consume less calories than you burn you will lose weight. Roughly 3500 calories less over a period of time would equal 1lb loss.

For health you would not want to live on just wine and rice cakes though. But a few of them on a Saturday night is not unhealthy.
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