Patients ask this question all the time. While calorie reduction does result in weight loss, that’s only one piece of the puzzle. I can’t stress enough that the quality of the calories we’re consuming greatly matters.Think of nutrition as about nourishing the body rather than depriving it. We need to nourish the body with complex carbohydrates to give us energy. We need to nourish it with protein to have adequate muscle function. Healthy fats are important because our cell layers are made with fat. A healthy diet will incorporate all of these different macronutrients.Many patients ask, for example, whether a low carb diet is the way to meet your weight loss goals. Low carb diets have become very popular in the weight loss world as a way to eliminate calories. While these diets can help to lower caloric intake and thereby help with weight loss, it’s important to make sure you’re still meeting all your nutritional needs. If you take a low carb to the extreme and all you’re eating is meat and cheese, you’re missing out on many of the nutrients your body needs to optimally function. You’ll also likely increase your cholesterol, which brings a host of other health problems. This is one of the ways that the idea of “calories in, calories out” oversimplifies nutrition.
It is a long standing myth regarding the confusion over how heat energy expelled from an object once burned has something to with how we metabolize food into energy and stored body fat. It is very simple and straightforward and therefore tends to be accepted with out much thought on the matter. After all, if you were handed an elementary math problem and told it pertains to the situation, it would be really hard to argue with if you really did not know better. However the human body is significantly more complicated than that. Our digestive system and metabolism are not a tiny furnace that literally burns up food and then has to do something with the energy (use it or store it). Our body deals with food using chemical reactions and hormones. Hormones being the things most responsible for the dictation of how energy is handled. For a rudimentary example, fat and sugar illicit vastly different hormone responses, and likewise significantly different reactions to what happens to that consumed food in regards to energy expenditure and fat storage. 100 calories in a cookie do not do the same thing in your body as 100 calories of broccoli. What you eat is always going to be more important than anything else.There are lots of studies and articles on this matter to get a more in depth understanding.Why “Calories in, Calories out” Doesn't Tell the Whole StoryWhy Calorie Counts are Wrong: 6 Diet Myths, BustedThe Calorie Myth: Why Eating Less & Exercising More Is NOT the Best Way to Burn FatThe science is in: exercise won’t help you lose much weightWhen a calorie is not just a calorie
Calories in vs. Calories out is a rudimentary way to think about weight loss. Your body will store carbohydrates as glucose and glycogen if you are doing a ton of resistance training or anaerobic training…so that will distort the equation.You should really think about what are your daily caloric needs…which you should compute using the Katch McCardell formula to calculate your BMR and then your TDN. Factor in what your goal is (just losing weight is not a good goal btw) and what your metabolic strategy is.Attempting to eat less and burn more has a number of flaws in it as a strategy…mainly, it's very hard to train hard with a restricted intake…and, one or two days a week where you fall of the wagon.. Will ruin the results for the entire month.You can't burn fat…it's a poor source of ATP compared to blood glucose/glycogen and aerobic training is not that tough for the body to perform.. So the gains suck.This is going to sound counter-intuitive…so just hear me out. You can grow muscle much faster than you can lose fat…2 weeks a training in the weight room will get you results…. 2 weeks of dieting…not so much. If you can convince your brain to grow muscle at the fastest rate possible…you'll metabolize fat much faster than you thought possible.. And you'll see a nice shape develop.Eat more calories than you need. Your body won't grow muscle that you cannot support with calories.Sleep 8 hrs a nightNo alcohol (takes a lot of effort for the liver and kidneys to clean the blood)No processed sugarTrain super hard.Set a strength goal…like a 15% increase in your bench. If you eat the same amount of calories each day…your body will grow muscle around the clock.Here's the trick…. Weight lifting isn't necessarily more efficient than diet and cardio…. The window for metabolic change for weight lifting is about 18–20 hrs a day vs 90mins a day you could do on the treadmill.Calories in vs. Calories out is really hard to do. Getting strong and never being hungry is easy.
What myth are you talking about? Of course calories matter. If you feast on ice cream and cakes all day long, you will gain weight. But if you watch what you are eating, you will stay slim and not gain.You cannot change the caloric truth. It is useful to read about the glycemic index and the glycemic load. Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load When you appreciate that you need to stick to foods that have less than 55 on the glycemic index Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load, you understand why some carbs make you fat while others keep you slim.Once you get used to choosing the right foods you don’t need to think about calories. But if you need to lose weight, you need to weigh every day and pay attention to food tables and calories.
It's a very BIG part of it.But I would have been out of a job if it wasn't for that little detail people seem to forget about sometimes: exercise ;)Anyways, aside from that calories in, calories out theory, it's very important that you not only focus on the calories, but where they come from.A lot of people eat "healthy" foods thinking they are making all the right choices when in reality, it's actually doing the complete opposite.I recommend checking out this presentation for more info: How to burn fat quickly
Do you burn more calories in cold or hot weather?
It really doesn't matter. When your body is cold it burns calories twitching the muscles (shivering) to generate heat. Well when you exercise in the cold it doesn't matter because you are generating so much heat anyways. So over all it's not going to make a significant difference one way or the other. The only time you would burn more calories is if your body is working harder to regulate it's temperature. Well the only time temp regulation burns more calories is when it's using muscle tissue movement to do so, which only happens in the cold, not the heat. But you don't shiver when you exercise, and you generate enough heat either way so it doesn't matter. Does that make sense? SWEATING DOES NOT BURN CALORIES. I notice a lot of posters saying that. That is not true. That is a myth. You don't burn calories generating sweat. Do you lose water weight by sweating? Yeah, but drink a glass of water and you gain it right back. Plus losing water weight has nothing to do with burning calories. I have no clue what that guy said about it "activating your digestive system". Skin secretions have nothing to do with your digestive system. In fact exercise reduces blood flow to your non-vital organs. People need to educate themselves before they answer questions -Connor
How many calories do you lose while urinating?
none, you dont lose calories by pushing something out of your body, your body absorbs them as they come into the stomach so you urine probly contains no calories, and also keep in mind water contains no calories so if youve been drinking water your obviously not going to give it some calories before it comes out. also dont listen to detaind he hasnt got a clue what he is talking about, calories are a unit of energy not heat, its amazing some people could be so dim. 'weight loss has nothing to do with calories but nutrition' the guy is off his nut i dont think he understands too many calories may you fat as you have too much energy and it beocmes stored as fat, and nutritious foods are advised to keep you going for long.
That we may have cause and effect wrong. That much of obesity may come down to a carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity. It may very well be that “overeating isn’t the underlying cause of long-term weight gain. Instead, it’s the biological process of gaining weight that causes us to overeat.”So, all these people fat shaming are really shaming their own hormonal system. Trust me, you throw some changes in hormones in your 40’s and people get fat. I am now much leaner than many of my friends who were once young and lean.See, this study shows that if you have lost weight, the key to maintaining it may be lowering carbohydrate intake. If you do that, your body will naturally increase its energy expenditure and you will be less prone to gain weight.Right now all the calorie in-calorie out model does is address the energy in food. It doesn’t even do that well because the calorie counts in a laboratory will be different than the calorie count in a human being because of inefficiencies in the way humans metabolize foods. Until we start to treat humans in the whole rather than simply looking at energy input, then we start addressing the biological factors that show more and more the repeated failure of the calorie in - calorie out model.