Help! I don't understand one diet thing.
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matbas98
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Hello. My goal in order to lose 0.5 kg/week is to reach 1970 kcal.
If I eat pizza everyday (just an example) and Im within my kcal goal, is that okay?
I mean If I eat badly and remain in the 1970 kcal, do I always reach my goal? Thank you.
If I eat pizza everyday (just an example) and Im within my kcal goal, is that okay?
I mean If I eat badly and remain in the 1970 kcal, do I always reach my goal? Thank you.
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Well the sodium may give you higher readings due to water retention, but IF you're eating in a calorie deficit, you should reach your goal. That's a big if because unless you're making that pizza yourself and have true weight numbers of ingredients, you could end up underestimating the true calorie count.
I eat "junk food" all the time. Candy, chips, pizza, burgers regularly each week. But I also make sure to have meals along with them to reach my RDA values with macro and micronutrients.
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yup if youre within your calories, all is well weight wise. Aside from possible water weight issues that can take awhile to go away (for me its usually 3-4 days, for others, longer, everyone is a bit different)3
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Calories are uniform units of energy, if you are in an energy deficit you have to make up that shortfall from your body's energy reserves (primarilly body fat).
Eating badly doesn't just mean eating too much, the poor souls in concentration camps clearly had awful diets and lost huge amounts of weight.
But of course, I'd assume you have some over-arching health goals as well which is why people concern themselves with nutrition as well as calories. Look at your entire diet and not just individual components.
Pizza still has nutrients of course and you could make a case for it being a "superfood" if it wasn't so hard to moderate!
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Yes you are correct.
In fact someone to prove the point ate only a big mac every day for a full month and lost 7 pounds. Is it healthy, probably not so much. But as they say CICO (calories in Calories out).2 -
Pizza is a well balanced food, as everyone above has said.
But, pizza, being a multi-ingredient calorie-dense food, is particularly difficult to log accurately , so there'd be that issue. If you made it yourself, you could nail down the calories, but when you get it from a restaurant, who the f knows exactly how many calories it has?4 -
concordancia wrote: »
That's ****ing smart. How do you cut it, does a roller work or do you have one of those big rocking cutters?
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concordancia wrote: »0
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Poobah1972 wrote: »Yes you are correct.
In fact someone to prove the point ate only a big mac every day for a full month and lost 7 pounds. Is it healthy, probably not so much. But as they say CICO (calories in Calories out).
Was that Jordan Syatt?0 -
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Poobah1972 wrote: »Yes you are correct.
In fact someone to prove the point ate only a big mac every day for a full month and lost 7 pounds. Is it healthy, probably not so much. But as they say CICO (calories in Calories out).
Was that Jordan Syatt?
I should probably add, he also ate a big salad every day and other quality foods brining his daily calorie count up to about 1500 per day. It just wasn't 1 big mag at ~550 calories a day. But the point was you can eat basically anything you want to, as long as you are eating under maintenance.1 -
I eat at maintenance on the weekends and have pizza every Friday. I'm losing 2lbs a week. I make my pizza from scratch and weigh all ingredients. I guess I could eat it every day, but I wouldn't feel good. It weighs me down and makes me feel bloated. But I love pizza so much, I can't NOT have it. I also eat tacos on Tuesdays. Food is fun and you can still lose weight. Just log it and budget your day accordingly.9
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concordancia wrote: »I buy my favorite frozen pizza and cut it up as soon as I get home. Then, when I am ready for pizza, I can prepare one slice at a time.
I buy a large cheese pizza from my local shop, eat 1-2 slices, then individually wrap the extra slices and put them in the freezer (the rest of the family is gluten and/or dairy free). If you re-heat in the oven, you can add toppings and it tastes really good!0 -
goal06082021 wrote: »concordancia wrote: »
That's ****ing smart. How do you cut it, does a roller work or do you have one of those big rocking cutters?
I just use our largest kitchen knife, which cuts about one radius at a time. It isn't usually particularly solid by the time I have gotten it home and gotten everything else out away.
I do the same thing with my husband's dairy free cheese cake, but that tends to be a bit more solid.0
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