There's a myth that eating healthy and losing weight are connected

[UpAndComing]

Everytime I hear these health magazines or health hustlers like Dr Oz on TV say this, I laugh to myself


- Weight loss is simply understanding how heavy foods or meals are. If you just consistently keep eating lighter meals for a sustained period of time, then weight loss would happen instantly

- How "healthy" a food is has nothing to do with it's ability to help you lose weight

- About 5 years ago, I lost 30 pounds eating fast food and junk food. And ate like one grapefruit

- For instance I would go to the candy store and eat Snickers, potato chips, cheese nips, honey bun, ice cream, etc and play basketball. And that would be the only thing I ate that day. But I would lose weight dramatically

- Junk food, although "unhealthy", are light as hell

- Conversely, I would eat a healthy full sized home cooked meal, and my weight would stay the same. No matter how much I exercise

The key is when you lose that weight, THEN you can focus on eating healthy

 

[Yesterday]

Junk food tends to make people over eat, that's the only reason they correlate the two. I also lost 80 pounds of body fat from eating what I wanted and playing basketball for hours at a time. But black men have so much natural muscle you can't really compare us.

 

[DarrynCobretti]

Nah, abs are made in the kitchen.

I'm not fat or even close to it, but I noticed even after getting a good pump in or after a long ass pick-up game session the times my abs are at it's most defined is during periods where I'm eating the healthiest and actually caring about what I'm stuffing my face full of.

Losing and gaining weight is basically about caloric intake and what you put in your body. So eating healthy/clean does matter.

 

[WaveGang]

Yh it's true... Eating healthy don't mean shyt

 

[Apollo Creed]

Calories in vs calories out for weight loss

Eating healthy and monotiring what you heat is whag leads to optimal body composition for your genetics.

 

[Arianne Martell]

Eating healthy does matter


My boyfriend loves junk food and fast foods ; he works out everyday and is not over weight

For his checkup the doctor said he has high cholesterol and we all know what that leads to.

Unhealthy foods makes you unhealthy regardless of what the scale says

 

[Saiyajin]

even bigger misconception is eating fatty foods makes you fat

its simple af. eat ,more calories than u spend u gain weight and vice versa it doesnt matter what u eat all that matters is the calories

 

[blackzeus]

even bigger misconception is eating fatty foods makes you fat

its simple af. eat ,more calories than u spend u gain weight and vice versa it doesnt matter what u eat all that matters is the calories

Basically. If you are running and lifting weights 18 hours a day you can eat bowls of snicker bars and LOOK fit. In the long run that won't be good for you but you are burning more calories than you eat which is all it takes to look in shape. It's crazy but some of those big bellied Asians and Africans are actually HEALTHIER than some muscular Americans because their diet is not the same.

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

It's always going to be calories in vs calories out. Junk food is usually condensed calories that don't fill you up and keep you hungry. A snickers bar is like 300 calories. I can have a full plate of food that's 300 calories though.

People on these junk food diets like to leave out that they're only eating once or twice a day in the first place. If I'm on a 2000 calorie diet goal and I eat once for the day and it's 1000 calories of ice cream then it works out in my favor in terms of losing weight.

 

[BlueHeffner]

Eating fatty/unhealthy foods itself doesnt make you fat, but it leads to over-eating.

Weight loss is directly attributed to calories intake/calories burned

1 gram of protein= 4 calories

1 gram of carbs= 4 calories

1 gram of fat= 9 calories

A snapple bottle contains around 200 calories.
A bag of sour patch kids is 220 calories.
On the flipside
Water is 0 calories
And 1 apple is 95 calories

The more fats (unhealthy fats) you consume, your calorie intake increases quickly.

 

[CouldBeWorse]

If you want to lose weight. It's ONLY about a caloric defecit, that's it. You will lose weight if you consume less calories than your body uses to maintain your current weight.

There it is, "mystery" revealed. Calories in vs calories out. You'd be surprised at the amount of people that don't understand that.

Now if we're talking actually being healthy and hitting your health markers, that's a different story.

 

[puppetmaster]

Eating fatty/unhealthy foods itself doesnt make you fat, but it leads to over-eating.

Weight loss is directly attributed to calories intake/calories burned

1 gram of protein= 4 calories

1 gram of carbs= 4 calories

1 gram of fat= 9 calories

The more fats (unhealthy fats) you consume, your calorie intake increases quickly.

This.


People keep adding weird factors and names and bullshyt to simple equations to sell Ebooks and stuff

it's really this simple.


And If you like to eat then get off your ass and move more to create a deficit

 

[Virtuous_Brotha]

I'm personally more against junk food for what it does to the body internally than externally.
Although all that grease ain't good for your skin

 

[lowkey0z]

thanks for the motivation brehs, i'm slidin' through five guys later today

 

[UpAndComing]

even bigger misconception is eating fatty foods makes you fat

its simple af. eat ,more calories than u spend u gain weight and vice versa it doesnt matter what u eat all that matters is the calories

Exactly

Eating once day with only eating junk food >>>>>>>>> eating 3 times a day eating healthy food. If the goal is to lose weight