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Tracking macros for a few months is huge lesson about your body's needs and the food supply around you. It clears away all the uncertainty and lets you know wha
by sasaf5 4y ago
Tracking macros for a few months is huge lesson about your body's needs and the food supply around you. It clears away all the uncertainty and lets you know what you really like to eat and what is just dead weight.
It also protects you from the food industry marketing departments.
In 6 months I learned:
- Everything sold in packages blows the fat or carb budget;
- I don't really like sodas or icecream;
- I cannot live without bread. I would always make sure there was some carb budget available for bread;
- Tofu, eggs and milk pack a lot of energy compared with their protein content. Careful there!
- Fruits can cause quite a dent in the carb budget;
- Many thing sold as healthy pack an obcene amount of calories;
- (Sugarless) Milk tea is a powerful tool to fend off hunger.
I lost 14kgs in 6 months, and kept that result for 2 years now. Most importantly, I am more satisfied with what I eat.
- pc86 4y agoI too was guilty of thinking "oh fruit is healthy, eat as much as you want" and frustrated with lack of progress - or even regression - in my goals. Then I started reading more about nutrition, got a coach, got a nutrition certification, etc. There are certain food that you can eat if you aren't super diligent about tracking, weighing, etc. and still see great progress in whatever your goals are. Fruit definitely isn't one of them!
- sasaf5 4y agoYes, and at the same time they are helpful with micronutrients and fibers... counting macros help making sure you are not going overboard.
- cardiffspaceman 4y agoI know someone who used to work in sales at Weight Watchers. They said that WW found success in compliance by zeroing out the points for fruit and/or vegetables. Apparently clients were spending their points on other things before the change, and not getting ANY fruit or veg before the change. Stated that this phenomenon was regional; e.g. Californians tended to make room for fruit and veg in their point budget. I personally find most fruit juice so acidic that I only drink it with a big meal.
- ac29 4y ago> (Sugarless) Milk tea is a powerful tool to fend off hunger. Milk has a significant amount of sugar, and if you are drinking the whole fat version, has nearly as many calories as an equivalent amount of soda.
- FartyMcFarter 4y agoI guess milk tea is mostly water with just a bit of milk.
- solarmist 4y agoA glass of whole-fat milk has about the same calories as soda, not sure how you get milk tea at the same level. I don't think most milk teas have more than tablespoon or two of milk.
- sasaf5 4y ago"Tenthly, one should pour tea into the cup first. This is one of the most controversial points of all; indeed in every family in Britain there are probably two schools of thought on the subject. The milk-first school can bring forward some fairly strong arguments, but I maintain that my own argument is unanswerable. This is that, by putting the tea in first and stirring as one pours, one can exactly regulate the amount of milk whereas one is liable to put in too much milk if one does it the other way round." https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/a-nice-cup-of-tea/ https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...