George1012
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Good day. I've attempted to lose weight a lot before and have done all sorts of diets. Everybody seems to agree, calories in calories out and that eating even just a few extra over your daily 'limit' will add x amount of weight. I think a lot of nutrition information from these 'experts' are lies. They came up with the term calorie as a unit of energy burned by fire, burned by FIRE not biological organisms that breath, move, eat and sleep.
I have gone to nutritional 'experts' and they've told me exactly how many 'calories' I should be eating a day and of what kind. I tried that many times and no matter how healthy of a diet I follow, counting up to a measly 2000-2500 a day was just not enough. I began to feel seriously deprived and I couldn't get my work done. My physical and even mental performance suffered. After awhile I'd get frustrated and lose control and eat way more then I expected. It just seems like a vicious lie to keep us all in a cycle of guilt. We have pressure to look a certain way, be a certain weight or we're despised by society. Its like they want us to develop an ED
Every year it seems like some food we thought was 'healthy' gets deemed unhealthy, and vice versa. Experts say adults should eat 2000-2500 calories a day, 300-500 extra for active. I followed that advice too and adding an extra piece of bread or an extra handful of nuts did not suffice either. In order to be able to perform optimally in the days I was running cross country and working 6-8 hrs a day I needed at least 4000 of these 'calories' which everyone deemed unnecessary when a nutritional expert would recommend maybe 3000 tops. If I were eating that little when I was running I would've been a twig so fast. I was already pretty thin in he cross country.
I counted accurately and weighed my food. Either we're meant to feel mildly hungry to borderline famished all the time or this nutrition information is utter BS. On my personal experience I didn't do well when I was hungry all the time. I couldn't think straight. I was tired and irritable all the time and even became depressed. This seems like a one size fits all solution but there are too many body types, metabolisms, and lifestyles to consider. If your 'diet' isn't working and you feel famished all the time to the point of nausea you should probably stop and reevaluate your lifestyle. I did and it paid off and I'm feeling so much better. Its important to eat what your body craves. The whole, 'when you feel hungry you're really thirsty' is also bs. When I'm thirsty I crave water. When I'm hungry I crave food. Its as simple as that. If you're craving a cookie or a brownie instead of a salad or a bag of carrots then you probably need sugar.
Obviously eating more then you need will lead to weight gain over time, and certain foods will definitely get you pretty big but you can still indulge on a fairly regular basis and go over this 'limit' and be fine. This defies that 'calories in calories out rule' that if you eat an extra 500 on x day you need to burn that 500 or it will inevitably lead to say 0.02 lb of fat and it simply isn't true. Theres too much all or nothing, one size fits all thinking in this. I know people in my life who are hell bent and so miserable over their diets, who have fat in weird places, strange deficiencies, etc, because they follow this fallacy, because their diet is so out of balance. I feel bad for them because I was once there and it is crappy to feel like you have to eat a certain way to be a certain way. Over time eating less will slow your metabolism anyway.
I have gone to nutritional 'experts' and they've told me exactly how many 'calories' I should be eating a day and of what kind. I tried that many times and no matter how healthy of a diet I follow, counting up to a measly 2000-2500 a day was just not enough. I began to feel seriously deprived and I couldn't get my work done. My physical and even mental performance suffered. After awhile I'd get frustrated and lose control and eat way more then I expected. It just seems like a vicious lie to keep us all in a cycle of guilt. We have pressure to look a certain way, be a certain weight or we're despised by society. Its like they want us to develop an ED
Every year it seems like some food we thought was 'healthy' gets deemed unhealthy, and vice versa. Experts say adults should eat 2000-2500 calories a day, 300-500 extra for active. I followed that advice too and adding an extra piece of bread or an extra handful of nuts did not suffice either. In order to be able to perform optimally in the days I was running cross country and working 6-8 hrs a day I needed at least 4000 of these 'calories' which everyone deemed unnecessary when a nutritional expert would recommend maybe 3000 tops. If I were eating that little when I was running I would've been a twig so fast. I was already pretty thin in he cross country.
I counted accurately and weighed my food. Either we're meant to feel mildly hungry to borderline famished all the time or this nutrition information is utter BS. On my personal experience I didn't do well when I was hungry all the time. I couldn't think straight. I was tired and irritable all the time and even became depressed. This seems like a one size fits all solution but there are too many body types, metabolisms, and lifestyles to consider. If your 'diet' isn't working and you feel famished all the time to the point of nausea you should probably stop and reevaluate your lifestyle. I did and it paid off and I'm feeling so much better. Its important to eat what your body craves. The whole, 'when you feel hungry you're really thirsty' is also bs. When I'm thirsty I crave water. When I'm hungry I crave food. Its as simple as that. If you're craving a cookie or a brownie instead of a salad or a bag of carrots then you probably need sugar.
Obviously eating more then you need will lead to weight gain over time, and certain foods will definitely get you pretty big but you can still indulge on a fairly regular basis and go over this 'limit' and be fine. This defies that 'calories in calories out rule' that if you eat an extra 500 on x day you need to burn that 500 or it will inevitably lead to say 0.02 lb of fat and it simply isn't true. Theres too much all or nothing, one size fits all thinking in this. I know people in my life who are hell bent and so miserable over their diets, who have fat in weird places, strange deficiencies, etc, because they follow this fallacy, because their diet is so out of balance. I feel bad for them because I was once there and it is crappy to feel like you have to eat a certain way to be a certain way. Over time eating less will slow your metabolism anyway.