Counting calories....

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Charmless Man said:
Your phrasing is pretty confusing. Obviously it is possible, if you're eating in excess of your TDEE.

What I think you're referring to is the excess being made up of simple sugar rich foods vs, say, foods made of complex carboydrates of equal calories. The answer to that is no. You will not gain any more weight as your body has no extra energy with which to synthesise new tissue/to actually form the new tissue.

The most helpful thing to remember here:

One kCal is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of pure water by 1 degree Celsius. There is no mechanism by which the human body can distinguish between the aforementioned unit of energy derived from sugar as opposed to if it was derived from protein. It's a unit to measure energy. Nothing more than that.
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Would be canny if you or Titus would watch the documentary just to clarify what the fuckers are going on about

The Mrs watched it and is now obsessed with avoiding sugar haha

peachbum said:
Just butting in, but is the argument along the same lines as
Alcohol makes you fat.
Briefly
Alcohol splits into acetate and fat.
Fat gets stored as fat.
Acetate is used as energy.
Rest of carbs fat protein etc don't get used as energy and get stored as fat.
Is this what the high sugar diet does?
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I would have thought people get fat off drinking as it will be taking there daily calorie limit over.

The bloke on the documentary is eating 2300 calories a day of healthy food.

He then switches to food that is supposed to be healthy but is high in sugar (still only eating 2300 calories per day)

But reckons he gained 18 lbs in 2 month
 
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Who gives a fuck. Anyone eating a diet consisting purely of shite and sugar deserves to get fat. You get back what you put in. Does anyone who really cares about nutrition actually plan to start eating all sugary foods even if it doesn't make you fat?
 
PhilSAFC said:
Who gives a fuck. Anyone eating a diet consisting purely of shite and sugar deserves to get fat. You get back what you put in. Does anyone who really cares about nutrition actually plan to start eating all sugary foods even if it doesn't make you fat?
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That's the blokes point though, he switches to food that is marketed as healthy but is full of sugar
 
If 2,300 is the number of calories his body requires to maintain itself on a daily basis, then I'm intrigued to know exactly how his body is defying the laws of physics and creating something from nothing.
 
If 2 people of the same weight, lets say twins for this argument, ate 2500 calories per day but one ate a higher % of protein and another ate a higher % of fat (both staying at 2500 cals) and they trained the same routine,

Would one would look more muscular due to higher protein consumption?

Would one weigh more than the other as one would have more muscle?
 
Mackem Chris said:
If 2 people of the same weight, lets say twins for this argument, ate 2500 calories per day but one ate a higher % of protein and another ate a higher % of fat (both staying at 2500 cals) and they trained the same routine,

Would one would look more muscular due to higher protein consumption?

Would one weigh more than the other as one would have more muscle?
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Depends.

No.
 
Mackem Chris said:
If 2 people of the same weight, lets say twins for this argument, ate 2500 calories per day but one ate a higher % of protein and another ate a higher % of fat (both staying at 2500 cals) and they trained the same routine,

Would one would look more muscular due to higher protein consumption?

Would one weigh more than the other as one would have more muscle?
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One of them would have smellier farts tho
 
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