What's worse in food; fat or calories?

Both! Fun, isn't it?

Two things to remember: you need some fat in your diet. Healthy fats come from things like nuts, seeds, avocado, and fish.

Eating less processed, lower calorie foods will let you eat MORE FOOD for less calories! A good rule of thumb is to make half your plate veggies or fruit, and then divide the other half into protein and grain.

Things like brown rice are calorie dense, meaning that they look very high calorie on paper, but eating an entire cup of brown rice with a couple cups of stirfry veggies will keep you full longer because of the fiber.

so glad you posted this I was wondering the same thing...Thanks

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Any macronutrient could gain you weight if it takes you over maintenance or TDEE.

Fat shouldnt be what you fear.
Fat is good for hormones and can make your skin feel and look fantastic!
Nuts, oils, avocados, fish etc....=yummy stuff dieters love! Eat these 90% of the time and youll pass with flying colors!

Cake, hohos, twinkies, cookies, chocolate bars.....eat these 10% of the time and youll be okay.

As long as your staying away from the bad fats and concentrating on the good fats then Calories would be where I would focus most one...

From a purely weight loss point of view calories.

The bottom line, though, is that your body needs fat. It's the "bad fats" that you should be keeping an eye on, but there's even controversy over the whole good fat / bad fat thing. For the time being it seems we should avoid/reduce animal based saturated fats and trans fats used in processed foods. Mono and poly unsaturated fats are the good guys as are omega-3.

Many of the so-called "low fat" products on the market have elevated levels of sodium or sugars in them to make them palatable (our bodies love the flavour of fat).

Conventional wisdom is to try and limit calories from fat to no more than 30% of your intake.

Agree! Good fats don't make you fat! And if you look at the labels of reduced fat things & compare with the regular version, there is almost always more carbs & sodium to make up for the fat! Not worth it! I focus on watching calories first, then carbs. I worry least about going over a little on fat or protein

Well, all fat can make you fat including the good fat if you eat too many. Also thinking all poly fats get a free pass is very much a marketing condition response. The amount of omega 6's people consume on average is through the roof and causing concern with the populations omega balance and general health, and why now they're (USDA) is pushing omega 3's........you can get omega 3's in just about everything now because of the wrong information given consumers 30 years ago, which was to consume refined vegetable oils instead of natural fats. If you eat natural foods including natural fats, there's little cause for concern. The only concern I have is that every 5 years the USDA needs to change their basic philosophy on how people eat......it really isn't friggen rocket science.......natural food is becoming extinct in the American diet.