Quote Originally Posted by Cataholic View Post
Nappers- I am not picking on you, but this is one of those things that gets to me ( lol, one of many). :/

A pound is 3500 calories. Those can be fat ladened, or low fat calories, 3500 calories from grapes will cause you to gain a pound the exact same way 3500 pounds of Funions will cause you to gain a pound. If one eats 3500 more calories of anything that is beyond what they need to fuel the body or service the body's needs, one will gain a pound.

Same thing with reducing your caloric intake. If one reduces their caloric intake (presumably over days since most of us do not need 3500 cals a day to maintain a -0-), one will lose weight. And, not gain it back unless that person again exceeds their caloric intake by 3500 calories. So, if one goes on a 800 calorie day 'diet', and loses ten pounds over the course of a month, and then begins eating 'normal' again (by what the body needs/expends) one will not gain weight back. If, one exceeds the body's need for food daily, then yes, one will gain that weight back. The same way one would if one maintained a 1200/1500 a day diet, and lost the weight over 6 months.
Ah, not necessarily true. The human body is amazing. In our waaayyy distant past, when we were hunters and gatherers, the human body learned to live through times of drought. It reserved the caloires we ate. The metabolism slowed down. If and when we did happen to find a lot of food while we were in "starvation mode" it saved it as fat immmediately so that it could continue through the current drought.

When humans today go too low on calories, our bodies still think we're hunters and gatherers and saves every extra calorie and turns it to fat. Yes, a pound is 3500 calories, but when your metabolism is moving very slow, it doesn't burn calories the same way it would if you were,'t in starvation mode. So say I did eat 800 calories a day, I definitely would lose weight, but the moment I go back to eating 1500 calories a day, my body says "woohoo! FOOD!" and it saves it for future because its been used to me denying it all the nutrients and calories it actually needs.

I read that before and happened to be reading a book last night by Psychology Today and it said the same thing (well not word)


Ok, I also admit I'm a weee bit obsessed with things right now. Hubby is getting annoyed because I am measuring things exactly. I almost fell over when I found out how many calories were in my favorite sandwich. Its now going to be a treat for once in a while, not weekly.