Comment on How exactly does one eat 1500 calories a day?

• nous@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  While strictly speaking calories in < calories out is the most important factor in weight loss, what you eat can drastically affect your hunger and thus indirectly affect your calories in - or at least make you far more miserable in sticking to lower calories. Eating more protein can help but I also find blander food helps as well - which typically means avoiding sugars and sweet foods. You are going to find it extremely hard to stick to a calorie limit eating nothing bot oreos and hostess snack cakes.

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  • Irremarkable@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Of course, which is why I said within reason. As long as you're making an effort to make your diet varied, I find trying to religiously track macros tends to be fairly counterproductive for most people, as it makes the whole process far more of a pain in the ass.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I low-key hate the “calories in vs calories out” mantra because I believe it tends to disregard an important source of “calories out:” the ones that don’t get absorbed in the intestines and that you poop out instead. It’s still somewhat early days for the science, but there’s increasing evidence to suggest that a lot of the difference between skinny people and fat people isn’t necessarily that their calorie intake or calorie burn is wildly different, but that fat people’s digestive tracts are better at absorbing all the calories.

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    • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Calorie in” means what your body absorbs. If it absorbs more, then the number is higher, and vice versa.

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      • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How do you measure that for weight loss?

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