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If you want to lose weight, counting calories will work for some people. But counting calories is not the best way to try to lose weight. Basically if you eat healthy food only you will not be over weight.

So if I consume 4000 calories a day if healthy food I'll eventually be thin? This is the worst advice ever. You can easily eat excess calories eating healthy foods.

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Posted by ronricks

Member since Mar 2021

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Posted on 3/20/24 at 3:44 am to Powerman

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So if I consume 4000 calories a day if healthy food I'll eventually be thin? This is the worst advice ever. You can easily eat excess calories eating healthy foods.

All calories are not created equal. 4,000 calories of steak and eggs isn’t the same as 4000 calories of lucky charms and pizza. Especially when it comes to building muscle and losing fat. You also have to look at what the ‘calories’ you are eating are going to do the lucky charms and pizza is going to spike the hell out of your insulin for one. Anyone can lose weight eating one meal at Subway and one meal of McDonald’s a day but you aren’t going to build muscle and you are going to look and feel like shite because it’s fricking unhealthy.

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Posted by Fe_Mike

Member since Jul 2015

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Posted on 3/20/24 at 6:59 am to Powerman

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You can easily eat excess calories eating healthy foods.

Eh...I don't know if I'd go with "easily". You're more than likely going to feel like you are stuffing yourself if you are overeating on only good 'healthy' food.

4,000 calories a day of whole, measured, healthy food is elite level bodybuilder type of stuff, and they have to have insane discipline and almost torture themselves to get that type of diet in.

I'd say for most people, if they actually limit themselves to 'only healthy food' then yeh, they will probably not need to count calories to lose weight/maintain a healthy weight. The body will regulate that pretty damn well. The problem is being honest about it. Eating eggs and oats for breakfast, chicken and rice for lunch, and steak and veggies for dinner is a really easy way to stay full on a <1500 calorie diet. But if you sneak in a glass of milk, snack on some chips, and have a coke between meals all of the sudden you are way outside of weight loss/healthy range.

This post was edited on 3/20/24 at 7:08 am

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