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You can lose weight eating nothing but crappy food. Calories consumed < calories burned = weight loss. A beef burrito off the value menu at Taco Bell has 430 calories. For an average overweight woman and assuming no exercise, if she ate 3 per day, for a total food cost of $90 per month, she'd lose an average of 1 pound per week if the only movement she did all week was going to fetch the burritos. An average overweight man could eat 4 of those same burritos per day and lose a pound per week, again, assuming exactly zero exercise.
Now, that's all they get to eat, because calories added up is your calorie total and has to be lower than consumed, but $3-4 per day isn't expensive. Matter of fact, a disciplined calorie_consumed_total diet consisting of nothing but fast food value items might be the cheapest possible way to lose weight. The liquid requirements are free - plain old water, and maybe a bottle of multivitamins to replace stuff crappy fast food doesn't normally come with. And a bottle of multivitamins is about $2-4 per month, so that cost is negligible.
End of the day, be it good food or bad food, the equation doesn't change, just the excuses. Discipline + knowledge = weight loss. Food doesn't really matter if you know the calories in the food and stick to a daily number.
. Its the crap being put in people's mouths by corporations. But god forbid we blame the businesses and the rich of anything.
They make fat people eat Big Macs.....ITS ALL THEIR FAULT.
When are we gonna take responsibility for our actions?
If I look in the mirror and see a big fat slob I will know and understand why I am fat and accept responsibility for letting it happen. I will then stop shoving twinkies down my gullet and eat a salad or two along with some exercise. My gosh people when are we going to stop blaming those evil corporations for our own personal failings. It is not McDonald’s fault your fat...it is yours. It is not Jack Daniels fault you’re an alcoholic...it is yours. It is not the tobacco companies fault you smoke....it is yours. They provide you with the products you want, you buy them. They did not tell you to overindulge in them. You chose to do that.
We are doomed as a society if the view of this poster is becoming the norm.
As our fast food and snack foods spread to other countries they are experiencing this trend as well. I see it in some of my friends. They think eating pizza and fast food every day for meals is "normal" and OK because to them it tastes good. Well that's not healthy nor what fast food should be. It is an an infrequent and occasional treat or meal when on the road or lack time to prepare something. That's it.
Fast food, snacks and the TV advertising that goes along with it, combined with a sedentary lifestyle modern technology enables is not healthy and not what humans are supposed to do.
Confusing caloric vs nutritional intake vs energy output.
Confusing caloric vs nutritional intake vs energy output.
1000 calories is 1000 calories.
You should probably clarify here. All calories are the same as it is simply a measure of energy content. All SOURCES of calories aren’t the same on energy expenditure.
I've always said that America has too much cheaply available food.
Maybe it's time to cut back on the supply side.
Yes this is one of the problems to our obesity epidemic. The available convenience of ultra processed foods is alot more available now than it was 30 yrs ago. Now I can just pick up my phone without have to move an inch to have all the processed foods delivered right to my doorstep.
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