Unhealthy foods but under daliy goals

It's true. There's been multiple accounts of high sugar diets that remain under caloric goals that are successful. A man once ate 1400 calories of twinkies for 3 weeks and lost weight. Of course, these kinds of foods are obviously not what you should be eating if you want your body to function fully. I'm assuming that the exercise needed to achieve "a good looking body" would be nearly impossible on a diet like that.

You would lose weight, but you'd be awfully hungry.

You would lose weight. But you will be hungry since you can't fit much high-calorie food into the amount required to lose weight. And I will argue that you won't have the best body you could. But yes, it will work... until you get close to goal... or even at goal.

If you want to be super fit, though, you need better fuel. Just ask any athlete.

Yes you will lose weight. Will you have a good looking body? Well...maybe if you're still young and have good genes, you might get lucky and look good too. But since junk foods have no nutritional value you're more likely to wind up feeling and looking like crap. :sick:

Lol this is great!!!!

http://www.primalbody-primalmind.com/?page_id=1394

"...8 ) Believing that junk food “in moderation” is OK.

This is a biggie. People will rationalize ‘til Sunday why it’s OK for them to eat French fries or potato chips “once in a while” or have their daily beer. While it’s true that it really isn’t what you do “once in a while” that usually determines your ultimate health or success in life (of course, the definition of “once in a while” is another interesting thing to consider) but what you do consistently that matters most…this does have its exceptions.

For instance, the only genuinely safe amount of trans-fats in anyone’s diet is ZERO. A single serving of trans-fat in French fries or chips may take up to two years for one’s body to fully eliminate, and its biological effects on your system in the meantime are chaotic and anyone’s guess as to how deleterious they are likely to be. Is “occasional” Russian roulette an “OK” thing? MSG is an excitotoxin and always does some degree of neurological damage. Is neurological damage “in moderation” OK? Furthermore, sugar consumption in any quantity is damaging and dysregulating to the system. Some of the effects are reversible and some not. Ultimately, it is the cumulative effect associated with glycation and insulin production that determine our health and life span. We live in a world where we can ill-afford any compromise to our health or well-being. Every meal matters. Is “a little hormonal chaos” or “just a tad” of systemic damage acceptable?

In the end, it’s all a matter of what you prioritize. If health really matters to you, then the less you compromise it, the better. If superficial indulgence matters more…then I doubt you would be reading this. It’s a choice we make. We need to make our choices more consciously and thoughtfully–and less impulsively. Furthermore, the less you compromise your health, the easier it becomes not to compromise (you just don’t get tempted after a while) AND the least likely you are to backslide and fall back into less healthy patterns of eating. –Like the Nike ad says: “Just Do It”. Stick to your guns. Maintain your “health integrity”. The ongoing and positively cumulative payoff will well exceed any superficial compromise to your impulsive desires. Your quality of life will not suffer in the absence of French fries, candy, potato chips, dessert or doughnuts. If you think it will, then you may need to take a look at what may be either addictions or a lack of healthy priorities...."

And yes you will lose weight. But what's the point of being skinny if you are too sick to enjoy it?

(on a side note: I'm a 41 year old trying to have just one baby. If it's a girl I plan on naming her after my Mom's Scottish maiden name: Mackenzie. )

I used to hang out with a very bad crowd. I was the only one that had money, and I didn't want to be mooched off of. So before I would go hang out with the gang, I would stop by McD's and get one super sized mega big whatever meal and that was all I would eat for the whole day because if I was around them and I was ordering something to eat they were begging for food.

I'm not proud of this in any way, but I did lose 45 lbs unintentionally. I was very hungry before I ate, and a while after I ate.

Lose weight - yes
Have a good looking body - no (unless, like someone else already said, you won the gene lottery)

http://www.primalbody-primalmind.com/?page_id=1394

"...8 ) Believing that junk food “in moderation” is OK.

This is a biggie. People will rationalize ‘til Sunday why it’s OK for them to eat French fries or potato chips “once in a while” or have their daily beer. While it’s true that it really isn’t what you do “once in a while” that usually determines your ultimate health or success in life (of course, the definition of “once in a while” is another interesting thing to consider) but what you do consistently that matters most…this does have its exceptions.

For instance, the only genuinely safe amount of trans-fats in anyone’s diet is ZERO. A single serving of trans-fat in French fries or chips may take up to two years for one’s body to fully eliminate, and its biological effects on your system in the meantime are chaotic and anyone’s guess as to how deleterious they are likely to be. Is “occasional” Russian roulette an “OK” thing? MSG is an excitotoxin and always does some degree of neurological damage. Is neurological damage “in moderation” OK? Furthermore, sugar consumption in any quantity is damaging and dysregulating to the system. Some of the effects are reversible and some not. Ultimately, it is the cumulative effect associated with glycation and insulin production that determine our health and life span. We live in a world where we can ill-afford any compromise to our health or well-being. Every meal matters. Is “a little hormonal chaos” or “just a tad” of systemic damage acceptable?

In the end, it’s all a matter of what you prioritize. If health really matters to you, then the less you compromise it, the better. If superficial indulgence matters more…then I doubt you would be reading this. It’s a choice we make. We need to make our choices more consciously and thoughtfully–and less impulsively. Furthermore, the less you compromise your health, the easier it becomes not to compromise (you just don’t get tempted after a while) AND the least likely you are to backslide and fall back into less healthy patterns of eating. –Like the Nike ad says: “Just Do It”. Stick to your guns. Maintain your “health integrity”. The ongoing and positively cumulative payoff will well exceed any superficial compromise to your impulsive desires. Your quality of life will not suffer in the absence of French fries, candy, potato chips, dessert or doughnuts. If you think it will, then you may need to take a look at what may be either addictions or a lack of healthy priorities...."

And yes you will lose weight. But what's the point of being skinny if you are too sick to enjoy it?

(on a side note: I'm a 41 year old trying to have just one baby. If it's a girl I plan on naming her after my Mom's Scottish maiden name: Mackenzie. )

Honestly, this sounds like fad diet faux science. The truth is that scientists don't really know what perfect nutrition is. Our idea of what healthy eating looks like changes every decade or so. There are some crazy people out there that can afford the time energy and money it takes to follow a strict eating plan, but for most of them it's their job (e.g. models, actresses, fitness and diet gurus). The rest of us have better things to do.

Losing weight is just simple math, calories in vs. calories out. What those calories come from does not have a big effect on that equation. It will effect your energy and the way you feel, but so will depriving yourself and only eating "healthy".

I have a friend on the caveman diet (her latest fad diet) and she's no healthier, no happier, and not much lighter. The key to being healthy is everything in moderation. Some times I want to tell her to just "eat the damn cookie!"

.....wait for it.........

.....it's coming....

Winter?

I have a friend on the caveman diet (her latest fad diet) and she's no healthier, no happier, and not much lighter. The key to being healthy is everything in moderation. Some times I want to tell her to just "eat the damn cookie!"

Some people don't realize that life is too short to never eat a cookie! (Not to be confused with eating and entire batch of cookies at one time)