Calories Matter (an interesting study inside)

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Nutrition Professor Loses 27 Pounds on Twinkie Diet: What Should We Make of It?: Burn The Fat Blog

Food QUANTITY for weight management…food QUALITY for health and vitality.

[Excellent Lodestar]

the responses to this study are coming in fast and furious, it seems...

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[Brutha]

Food QUANTITY for weight management…food QUALITY for health and vitality.

Yes, it's important to know that health and vitality are about more than weight management.

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Originally Posted by Excellent Lodestar

the responses to this study are coming in fast and furious, it seems...

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Thanks for that link. The discussion is very interesting.

"So do calories matter? Yes, but in a healthy person, all the math is done automatically by the hypothalamus and energy balance requires no conscious effort. In 2010, many people have already accumulated excess fat mass."

Pay attention to the word: healthy person. To me it seems that very few people in the world are truly healthy in this perspective. Seems that our hormones are not as efficient at giving signals to the brain that we are full (it reaches it sometimes 10 minutes after eating).

If you eat more than you need, you're body also increases your metabolism. If you eat less than you need, your body decreases metabolism. However, I don't think it's done very efficiently in most individuals. So this all comes back to calories matter a lot.

[Brutha]

If you eat more than you need, you're body also increases your metabolism. If you eat less than you need, your body decreases metabolism. However, I don't think it's done very efficiently in most individuals. So this all comes back to calories matter a lot.

The trouble is that will power is a very limited resource when it comes to controlling the amount that a given person eats.
If a person tries to force a very low calorie diet on themselves the person usually goes through the jojo effect because they aren't able to overwrite the impulses that want to keep them at a certain weight.

[VinceG]

Originally Posted by Excellent Lodestar

the responses to this study are coming in fast and furious, it seems...

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What this article didn't take into account was the very thrust of the article. General heath indicators got better, not worse, under the twinkie diet.

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Originally Posted by Brutha

The trouble is that will power is a very limited resource when it comes to controlling the amount that a given person eats.
If a person tries to force a very low calorie diet on themselves the person usually goes through the jojo effect because they aren't able to overwrite the impulses that want to keep them at a certain weight.

1) Very low calorie diets are not good and beneficial.
2) You need to figure out the menu that makes it easy to follow it and achieve your goals. Keep in mind that if it means slower results, so be it. It's beneficial in the long-term.

[joelr]

My mother just lost ~15lbs on a similar diet. She cleaned up things a bit but still ate dessert every night. Ice cream, cupcakes, whatever. But she measured the amounts, I would see her measuring out 1/2 cup of ice cream when I ate over.

Personally I can't eat sweets in limited amounts. My cheat Yodel last week turned into 6 Yodels and 1 cupcake. The next night my body was saying "do it again!", the sugar high is very addictive.