What... balsamic vinegar is more calorie dense that Coca Cola?! Surely this must be diet coke right...?
You drink a glass of cola. I challenge anyone to drink a glass full of balsamic vinegar.
What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
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Re: What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
#122As someone who's successfully lost a lot of weight on a low carb / no grain diet, this chart irks me. That a handful of almonds has the same calories as a certain amount of Captain Crunch is irrelevant. The latter will quickly convert to glucose in your body, however, (unlike almonds) and that will make a huge difference in your satiety levels, insulin response (Hello, Metabolic Syndrome!), etc... [1] Some good resou…
Firstly, I am not a nutritionist. I've been weight-training for a couple of years, was vegetarian for about 8 years, and I'm back to eating meats for three years now. I also run a lot.
Right now, my diet probably consists of around 40% protein, 40% carbs, and 20% fat, to slightly varying degrees per week.
I watch what I eat and study what I eat quite a bit, though. I've tried the ketosis thing, the low-carb thing, the good high-carb thing. The only thing I've not tried was the high good-fat diet, because I tend to break out and/or get really oily skin when I eat fatty stuff. (Having said that, my skin was the best when I was ovo-lacto vegetarian.)
As everyone has said, each body is very different and the way your body uses what as fuel differs depending on your lifestyle.
Having said that, I do believe everyone has a "sweet spot". That is, a diet and exercise regime that works almost perfectly. I've read people that have been weight training for years that say they go into ketosis with around 100g of carbs a day. Many say this is impossible, but I've seen pictures of the dudes, and unless those aren't his, he seems to be doing extremely well. Personally, I could never go into ketosis with nowhere near that amount.
What I also found to be true is that you can either have lots of carbs and protein and little fat, or lots of fat and protein and little carbs. If you have lots of fat and lots of carbs at the same time, you will get fat quickly. The whole .8g to 1.5g per kilo (of your weight) for protein seems to work for me, as well.
Another thing that I've noticed that is very important, and this is with regard to what you say about insulin, is monitoring your glycemic index levels, because this is another way you can get fat. Unfortunately, this can be tricky, because theoretically, even fruits can get you fat once you consider the excess increase/energy that you do not expend.
Lastly, macronutrients! Getting in your macronutrients within your caloric intake I've found to be mandatory, especially if you're working out.
Re: What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
The traditional definition of empty calories would be something like a spoonful of sugar. That's an extreme example, but the idea is that the food in question provides calories without nutrients. So there is such a thing and it makes plenty of sense. (USDA takes my side: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/weight-management-calories/calo... )
"calories without nutrients" does not makes sense at all. A spoonful of sugar contains 100% nutrients. That link is total nonsense. For example it claims pizza is empty calories, but bread, cheese, tomatoes, meat & veggies are not? It's ridiculous.
No, a spoonful of refined white sugar contains 100% calories.
It does not contain any minerals, vitamins, protein, essential fatty acids, micronutrients or antioxidants, which in the context of this discussion, is what is meant by saying it has no nutrients.
Re: What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
#124One of the things I've enjoyed the most in the past 4 months has been diving into reddit.com/r/fitness. If you spend a few hours reading the FAQ on that site, plus examine.com's nutrition articles, and reddit.com/r/leangains FAQs, you will come out with a much better understanding of your diet. There are also calculators listed in the FAQs that will help you determine what you need to eat to maintain your bodyweight,…
to get enough protein if you're even moderately active, you have to eat A LOT - eggs, milk, meat, tuna Any time someone specifies "A LOT" as a nutritional guide I get a little skeptical. Keep in mind when you're eating these foods the whole nutritional profile to determine if you're over-eating something (or filling yourself with LDLs). Try to balance the eggs, milk and meat with alternatives like quinoa, spirulina,…
I've for a while now used Boku Super Protein brand powder supplement. It's completely plant-derived and very diverse, unlike most other plant-based proteins, which only source from soy.
Re: What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
#125As someone who's successfully lost a lot of weight on a low carb / no grain diet, this chart irks me. That a handful of almonds has the same calories as a certain amount of Captain Crunch is irrelevant. The latter will quickly convert to glucose in your body, however, (unlike almonds) and that will make a huge difference in your satiety levels, insulin response (Hello, Metabolic Syndrome!), etc... [1] Some good resou…
The main thing that's useful about low-carb diets is that foods high in protein and fat are filling. You don't need ketosis (which is probably a harmful medical condition) to lose weight, but if you get most of your calories from carbohydrates, you'll tend to have trouble feeling satisfied without going overboard on calories. So you're partially right about satiety levels, but in my experience eating something high i…
See, this is what is so interesting to me.
It takes more good fats and protein to fill me up.
Good carbs fill me up very, very fast.
Re: What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
"carbs are very rarely converted into body fat". Yeah, you probably need to brush up on your biochemistry before you make statements like this.
Here's the explanation from an expert - http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/how-we-get-fat.htm... "Carbohydrates are rarely converted to fat (a process called de novo lipogenesis) under normal dietary conditions. There are exceptions when this occurs. One is with massive chronic overfeeding of carbs. I’m talking 700-900 grams of carbs per day for multiple days. Under those conditions, carbs max out glycogen sto…
A basic text on biochemistry will educate you more than this "expert". You really should educate yourself properly instead of following random web sites that confirm your own biases.
Carbohydrates ARE converted to fat under normal dietary conditions, via insulin. If this metabolic process was "rare" as he states, then diabetics that require insulin injections wouldn't need them often.
I don't know where this "expert" is getting his information from, but it's a basic human biochemical reaction to form fat from blood glucose, via insulin.
Re: What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a little more to it than that. When you're in a ketonic state your body burns stored fat rather than carbs. [1] For example for me, normally on a 2 hour bike ride (@ ~120bpm) I would need to drink ~2.5 bottles of glucose drink to keep my blood sugar levels high enough. When I'm on a keto diet I'll only need 0.5 bottles of glucose drink during the ride to stave off the knock. [2] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
I'm surprised you need to eat anything at all on a short ride like that, at such a low BPM, and certainly nothing like 2.5 bottles of glucose! Just water to avoid dehydration should be enough. I doubt the diet has anything to do with it. (In this case anyhow... certainly nutrition is critical for harder efforts).
A short bike ride that burns about 1250 kcal, which is another 50% on top of my normal daily requirements. So not that surprising that I'd need to take in 450 kcal really.
Re: What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a fad because you draw your "evolutionary diet" line at the Paleolithic for no reason at all. For 100 million years prior all your ancestors ate a pure vegetarian diet. Why isn't that diet more sensible from an "evolutionary" perspective?
I don't know much about the history of nutrition. However, I will assume that prior to Paleolithic time we did eat a pure vegetarian diet. So what? Vegetation diet 100 million years ago I'll guess that obesity is nill comparatively to today. I'll also guess that there was comparatively virtually no obesity in the Paleolithic period. Nowadays we live in a period where we're told pasta is healthy, or orange juice is he…
The question is why do you choose the Paleolithic era as your cut off? We evolved the ability to consume dairy and grains about 10,000 years ago. If you are basing diet on what we evolved to eat, why do you exclude foods that we evolved to eat?
Re: What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
#129The way the government allows corporations to calculate calories is a very corrupt system, self-moderated with little to no supervision or enforcement.
So keep that in mind when reading labels.
Re: What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
#130Peanut butter, nuts, and bagels tend to be the ones that are most surprising to people who are dieting for the first time. Just way more calories than people think because they think they are "healthy" because they are natural.
People think bagels are healthy? They're just a big, dense (delicious) ring of simple carbs.
If you had a bagel (plain with no spread) and a cream filled iced donut sitting next to each other, I think most people would think choosing the bagel would be the obvious healthy choice.
(Honestly, I think that's why people have success with low-carb diets. So much of their calorie intake is from carbs from simple basics like breads and pasta.)