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Banana@sh.itjust.works 18 hours agoYou don’t understand what I said then. You do not know the necessary information to make the judgement on whether this will make a person gain weight: you do not know
- the ingredients in the smoothie (could be fuckin yogurt, milk and berries for all you know, which could be like 100-200kcal)
Or
- the amount of calories that person has or will burn that day (if they are in a caloric deficit higher than the calories in the smoothie, it will not cause weight gain)
The existence of calories don’t automatically cause weight gain, excess calories cause weight gain.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 16 hours ago
Lol at the amount of calories you think are in milk yogurt and berries.
Banana@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
1/4 cup 2% milk: 30kcal 1/3 cup Greek yogurt: 100kcal 1/2 cup frozen mixed berries: 39kcal
Plus ice
Total estimated calories: 169kcal
Which is between 100 and 200kcal.
Not every smoothie has a bunch of added sugar. I’ve literally made smoothies like this before. That’s how I know. How often do you track calories, my dude?
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
That’s a 16 to 22 oz cup, so you’re going to add a lot of ice to water that thing down
Banana@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Read my other comments, I went over this already.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
I think you’re right in this argument, but that’s a tiny smoothie. It’s barely more than a cup.
Banana@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Ice has no calories and takes up a lot of space in smoothies. Again, ive made smoothies like this so many times and theyre delicious. Smoothies do not have to be huge – i understand when you’re purchasing one they tend to have more stuff in them to get the value you’re paying, but homemade smoothies tend to be about a cup or so, plus ice.
the_wonderfool@piefed.social 16 hours ago
I mean, whole milk is 62 kcal per 100ml, plain yoghurt is 66 and berries are another 60… So for a glass of smoothie (I would assume around 20cl), it’s quite realistic for it to be maximum 150 kcal, even accounting for some sugar to sweeten it…
Or am I totally wrong with my calculation?
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
We’re going to be using different measurements, but the gist of it is that the glass pictured is 16 to 22oz in size. 8oz (one cup) of milk is about 150 calories. Yogurt (plain) is generally the same, unless you use low fat lite yogurt. So just filling the cup with only yogurt and milk is 300 calories. Blueberries are around 80 a cup.
So there’s just no real way you’re getting a smoothie that size under 200 calories.
the_wonderfool@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Wow that’s much bigger than I thought, it’s a pint of smoothie! I was assuming that all combined was what you call a cup (8oz)…