Just dropped the 3…Carbs?

robertstevens2323
robertstevens2323 Posts: 1 Member
in Health and Weight Loss

Was able to weigh in below 300 today at 298! That’s 20 lbs down for me. Learning lots by logging everything on MFP and finding foods that are surprisingly low cal and others that are surprisingly high. Anyway fun learning either way!

This is my 2nd go of it. I lost 122lbs once in my life from 340 to 218. Did it mostly if not all by heavy exercise but never learned diet and nutrition. Trying a totally opposite approach this time and making nutrition the corner stone of the weight loss. Wish me luck!

Question… I’m confused about carbs. I’m only at a level where I’m hitting calorie and Macros as best I can but how fruits, sugar, pasta, rice, chips ect are mostly the same bucket baffles me. Is eating a big bowl of watermelon really similar to having a bowl of noodles?

Thanks for the help!

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  • tomcustombuilder
    tomcustombuilder Posts: 2,529 Member

    No totally different. Look up 10 ounces of watermelon and 10 ounces lf pasta.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,976 Community Helper

    Carbs are just one characteristic of food; so are calories. Satiation, micronutrients, protein, fats and more are other individual characteristics.

    Watermelon has more of some micronutrients than most noodles. Which has more fiber depends on the type of noodles. Which is more filling may be different from one person to the next. And so forth.

    It's about balancing all those factors that a person cares about.

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,891 Member

    Yay for getting out of the threes!

    I lost around 80 pounds and I did most of that on 1500-1600 a day (PLUS Exercise calories, so anywhere from 1500-2100 total daily intake.) That didn't leave a lot of room for most processed carbs.

    I had bread daily - but only once, not at every meal. Pasta probably one or two times a week. Potatoes probably three or four times a week. Oatmeal/granola, not daily but it was in the rotation. Rice once or twice a week. Also all the fruits. I had at least one piece of whole fruit every day. No juice.

    The trick is fitting them in with reasonable quantities to stay within calorie goals. Some things I just stopped buying like baked things such as pretzels, crackers, boxed cereal, cookies, donuts, pizza, French bread. I didn't need that stuff and I didn't have room for it in my calories. Those foods tended to make me binge eat them and that was a big problem.

  • sollyn23l2
    sollyn23l2 Posts: 2,138 Member

    The answer is they are not the same. I think that's why it's so incredibly important to look at food as a whole rather than simply the macronutrient content. When you just look at macros, that's where you get those... interesting... people who say things like "feeding your kids grapes? Might as well feed them a chocolate bar. Same thing". Ummmmm, no. People used to have common sense about those kinds of things.

  • rudyzenreviews
    rudyzenreviews Posts: 74 Member

    no, a bowl of watermelon isn’t the same as a bowl of noodles and they both count as carbs,but fruit has water, fiber, and nutrients that make it way lighter and more filling.

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