Mon, Jan-28-13, 21:27
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Plan: mostly milkfat
Stats: 190/152.4/154
BF:
Progress: 104%
Location: Ontario
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Quote:
Originally Posted by femur
Eating more calories than you burn causes weight gain, no matter which diet you use.
If you were eating the lowest calorie density foods, like fruits, veggies, and whole grains, all with a calorie density of 600 calories per pound or less, you would have a hard time keeping weight on, let alone gaining weight. I suspect you ate lots of oils and fat (vegetarian does not necessarily equal strict plant based or low fat). Fat is about 4,000 calories per pound. So it would be easy to gain if you eat it.
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A couple years ago I tried overfeeding--five thousand calories a day. I normally eat under half of that. I meant to do it for a couple of weeks. I lost weight, but I only lasted three days. It was so nice to just eat to appetite again. (I think I probably gained weight over the three days, but lost water, but really have no way of knowing). It doesn't matter one bit how dense a food is. There's lots of short term studies--yes, people have overeaten fat in the short term when it's surreptitiously added to their food. Short-term don't matter. Who says the choice is to eat so many pounds of food? What makes weight of food the important metric? Who cares if it's denser, if it sates me? What matters is--will eating this diet make me fat? Will it make me lean? Will it make me healthier? For a lot of people, the answers are no, yes, and yes, respectively. Why discourage them? Y'know?
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