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This is a statement that’s technically true but misses the most important point — sourcing your foods from fat/protein/veggies will naturally take care of the c

This is a statement that’s technically true but misses the most important point — sourcing your foods from fat/protein/veggies will naturally take care of the calories piece. All mammals, including humans, have the ability to naturally regulate their energy balance when they eat the foods they evolved to eat.

dogma1138 8y ago
No it won’t if you eat a ribeye for lunch every day you’ll be hard pressed to lose weight unless you are The Rock. If your goal is to lose weight tracking calories is by far the most important factor in achieving that goal. You can’t just say eat meat and veggies and expect people to lose weight without enforcing a caloric restriction.
- sbenitoj 8y ago
  That is exactly how I get my many, many clients to lose weight — eating meat and veggies naturally causes people to reduce their calorie intake by increasing their feelings of satiety from the foods they’re eating.
  - dogma1138 8y ago
    No, how you make your clients lose weight is by restricting their caloric intake that’s it. The fact that’s is more easily achieved by saying that you can eat 3 chicken breasts a potatoe and a bucket of kale a day than 5 large cookies, isn’t exactly ground breaking nor does it have anything to do with what humans evolved to eat because we’ve been eating processed sugar for far longer than we were eating meat. In fact scratch my first comment that started this I would rather see a menue that is at or over your daily caloric requirement which magically makes you lose weight.
    - sbenitoj 8y ago
      Are you claiming that ALL foods — whether they’re sugar or grass-fed beef — affect your hunger-related hormones the same? Also, where’s the evidence for people consuming processed sugar longer than meat? Never seen that claimed before.

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This is a statement that’s technically true but misses the most important point — sourcing your foods from fat/protein/veggies will naturally take care of the c

by sbenitoj 8y ago

dogma1138 8y ago
No it won’t if you eat a ribeye for lunch every day you’ll be hard pressed to lose weight unless you are The Rock. If your goal is to lose weight tracking calories is by far the most important factor in achieving that goal. You can’t just say eat meat and veggies and expect people to lose weight without enforcing a caloric restriction.
- sbenitoj 8y ago
  That is exactly how I get my many, many clients to lose weight — eating meat and veggies naturally causes people to reduce their calorie intake by increasing their feelings of satiety from the foods they’re eating.
  - dogma1138 8y ago
    No, how you make your clients lose weight is by restricting their caloric intake that’s it. The fact that’s is more easily achieved by saying that you can eat 3 chicken breasts a potatoe and a bucket of kale a day than 5 large cookies, isn’t exactly ground breaking nor does it have anything to do with what humans evolved to eat because we’ve been eating processed sugar for far longer than we were eating meat. In fact scratch my first comment that started this I would rather see a menue that is at or over your daily caloric requirement which magically makes you lose weight.
    - sbenitoj 8y ago
      Are you claiming that ALL foods — whether they’re sugar or grass-fed beef — affect your hunger-related hormones the same? Also, where’s the evidence for people consuming processed sugar longer than meat? Never seen that claimed before.