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Why don’t “real” salads include lettuce?
Because lettuce is filler whose main purpose seems to be to take up space on the plate. It doesn't provide an saity, and something like iceburg lettuce has very low nutritional content. It just a cop out for restaurants.
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Simple question is, "Where did the energy go?" First guess would be that the bodies of the fat eaters produced more heat, perhaps on account of a less efficient metabolism of fat. Couldn't that be measured directly with a thermometer? Other guess would be that the fat eaters were more active, producing more mechanical energy. That would be a very interesting possibility to explore. A few decades back, my reading led…
only about 1 kg per month That's 26 pounds in one year . For most people, that's a game-changer.
I do eat carbs within my diet, but it's selected on purpose:
- 80 calories worth of cereals (I use cereals for diabetics, so I can eat 30g of those) - Up to 800g of fruit (some of it is excluded, like grapefruit)
The fruit is the real trick: it makes you feel satisfied, when you eat it with right timing, even if you are on 700 calories/day (which is basically starvation.
First 3 days are terrible, then the body feels resigned and you feel like you can deal with it.
After 6 weeks that's roughly 10kg lost...
This is all fluff. There are a few simple rules I followed for successful weight loss (15 lbs in the last 5 months. 1) Burn more calories than you consume. 2) Losing more than a pound per week means you'll gain it back again. 3) If you like the taste of the food item then it's unhealthy.
If I eat vegetables, a zucchini with no topping is ok (I really like zucchini). If I eat red beet, I like eat a lot. Check the calories of red beet and they are 3 times zucchini calories.
Same goes for squash.
Eggplant only double. Infact eggplant tastes incredibly good, but even better if you add some extra virgin olive oil.
I eat everything home cooked and a lot of raw ingredients, but you xan easily tell what things have more calories based on the flavour (regarding unprocessed food at least)
And to be fair, it does make sense in some way. Isn't your body supposed to use flavour to suggest if you are eating the right things?