Calories vs Fat intake (weight loss, lose, gained, healthy)

[Fnix]

Would you gain more weight from 2700 calories per day with 50 grams of fat or 1000 calories per day with 140 grams of fat? Obviously 140 grams is not healthy fat intake.

[younglisa7]

I'm not sure but I think either one would make me sick, lol.

[lndigo]

The former, but the latter would be much worse for your arteries. =x

[jenn02674]

It is still calories in, calories out so you would gain weight with 2700 calories no matter where it came from if you weren't burning that much off.

It is that simple for weight loss but fat usually is more calorie dense so lowing fat typically lowers calories but I don't know how you could eat 140 grams of fat and only get 1000 calories. Fat has 9 calories per gram so that would be a minimum of 1260 calories.

[ChessieMom]

Originally Posted by jenn02674

It is still calories in, calories out so you would gain weight with 2700 calories no matter where it came from if you weren't burning that much off.

It is that simple for weight loss but fat usually is more calorie dense so lowing fat typically lowers calories but I don't know how you could eat 140 grams of fat and only get 1000 calories. Fat has 9 calories per gram so that would be a minimum of 1260 calories.

Thanks! I was just getting ready to multiply that out - I knew that didn't sound right!

[johnrex62]

Originally Posted by jenn02674

It is still calories in, calories out so you would gain weight with 2700 calories no matter where it came from if you weren't burning that much off.

It is that simple for weight loss but fat usually is more calorie dense so lowing fat typically lowers calories but I don't know how you could eat 140 grams of fat and only get 1000 calories. Fat has 9 calories per gram so that would be a minimum of 1260 calories.

Must be net calories. Eating a diet of pure fat would almost certainly entail a significant amount of gagging, which burns calories while eating and thus reducing the net calorie gain from the meal. Yes?

[jenn02674]

Very good point I imagine that if you ate pure sugar and just threw it up, you would lose weight too

[LaoTzuMindFu]

Originally Posted by Fnix

Would you gain more weight from 2700 calories per day with 50 grams of fat or 1000 calories per day with 140 grams of fat? Obviously 140 grams is not healthy fat intake.

Please tell us that you are not choosing between these two diets.

[Fnix]

Originally Posted by DaBeez

Please tell us that you are not choosing between these two diets.

My current diet since December has been 2700 calories with 50 grams of fat. But I havent gained any weight from it.

[jenn02674]

Then you must be burning 2700 calories every day.