GoofyNewfie
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With this being my last post I thought I would go out with a bang. I am going to stop posting on this forum and just lurk occasionally to browse through posted info/experiences as I enjoy reading and constantly learning.
A very common mentality I have observed on this forum is the idea that a calorie is a calorie. You ingest a # of calories per day and if your daily consumption is above your BMR you gain weight and if it is below you will lose weight. This concept is not only on this forum it is a pretty widely accepted across North America but what I want you to know is that this is not 100% true.
The first thing you must understand is that your actual body weight, in its numerical form, is just a number. This number does not represent anything specific about the amount of fat on your body. Fat, muscle, water, bone, etc etc are the things that make up your body weight and varying your caloric intake by several hundred calories will not allow you to make any predicted amount of weight-loss. Eating less calories doesn't account for the possibility that you ate more carbohydrates and are effectively holding more water, therefore, driving your body WEIGHT up. There's too many factors adding up to create your body weight and this is why I believe the calorie=calorie approach to healthy living is unsustainable and misguided from the start.
Rather than counting calories I think we need to learn how to approach food and with educated mind. When you know your foods and what's in them (both ingredients and nutrients) you are truly starting to take hold of your body. We must take on each day and eat the amount/types of food that it demands not just sit idly behind the magical number of our terribly guessed BMRs.
While posting on here I wanted to begin a thread talking about this just so I could try to get even so much as one person to think outside the box for second and consider it. The video I am linking this thread to on the bottom of this post is a great source of info as well as a chance to learn some principles on metabolic processes. This illustrates that a calorie is not indeed the same as every other.
Please watch this talk a couple of times over and then start researching the things you want to understand about it. This guy is smart and on point:
A very common mentality I have observed on this forum is the idea that a calorie is a calorie. You ingest a # of calories per day and if your daily consumption is above your BMR you gain weight and if it is below you will lose weight. This concept is not only on this forum it is a pretty widely accepted across North America but what I want you to know is that this is not 100% true.
The first thing you must understand is that your actual body weight, in its numerical form, is just a number. This number does not represent anything specific about the amount of fat on your body. Fat, muscle, water, bone, etc etc are the things that make up your body weight and varying your caloric intake by several hundred calories will not allow you to make any predicted amount of weight-loss. Eating less calories doesn't account for the possibility that you ate more carbohydrates and are effectively holding more water, therefore, driving your body WEIGHT up. There's too many factors adding up to create your body weight and this is why I believe the calorie=calorie approach to healthy living is unsustainable and misguided from the start.
Rather than counting calories I think we need to learn how to approach food and with educated mind. When you know your foods and what's in them (both ingredients and nutrients) you are truly starting to take hold of your body. We must take on each day and eat the amount/types of food that it demands not just sit idly behind the magical number of our terribly guessed BMRs.
While posting on here I wanted to begin a thread talking about this just so I could try to get even so much as one person to think outside the box for second and consider it. The video I am linking this thread to on the bottom of this post is a great source of info as well as a chance to learn some principles on metabolic processes. This illustrates that a calorie is not indeed the same as every other.
Please watch this talk a couple of times over and then start researching the things you want to understand about it. This guy is smart and on point:
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