Does anyone else think people here obsess over calories a little too much?

Question

People here seem to be so obsessed with calories.

It's like some people think "low-calorie" or "low-carb" and "healthy" mean the same thing. Healthy eating isn't about cutting calories or cutting carbs! It's about eating healthy food!

People seem to think getting 100 calories from white bread is better than getting 110 calories from whole wheat bread.

People think that taking diet pills or going on a low-carb diet or a high-protein diet or a low-fat diet or whatever will make them healthy and lose weight.

Eating healthy isn't about that kind of thing! It's about eating a balanced variety of natural foods!

I know that "natural" doesn't mean "good for you", but I mean like whole foods, you know? Fruits, vegetables, grains, etc. Not "natural" processed foods that aren't really natural.

hotwheels5515, fair enough. If you know a guy like that, I take your word for it. Overeating IS unhealthy.

I'm just saying - neither starving yourself nor eating lots of artificial/processed food is healthy either, you know?

Answer 1

Natural doesn't necessarily mean "good for you" either. And "balance" is a very relative term. Also, you WILL lose weight on low calorie diets, but they are definitely harder to stick to. You're right.. in an ideal world, people would stick to eating only healthy, nutritious food--grown organically of course, but we live in a "quick fix" society. Personally, I'm not all that against people using low cal diets to lose the weight, and then start the "healthy eating" to keep the weight off.

Answer 2

When you say people 'here' where exactly do you mean? Do you mean this yahoo site itself? I have noticed people ask a lot about losing weight. I agree eating healthy is about a balanced variety of foods. I like to say I eat for taste and nutrition, and not always necessarily in that order. Your example with the white bread is a good one as whitebread might have ten calories less than the wholemeal version, but it is 100 calories which are almost devoid of nutrient. I don't think you can stop people obsessing when we live in such a media fuelled image driven society. On the other hand, I am obsessed with exercise...

Answer 3

I do. I think for one thing food is a little too easy to get and a lot of it is packed with salt, fats and nasty preservatives. People should learn how to cook, including planning menus and shopping. It so gets on my nerves, "I can't eat this, I'm not eating carbs, I'm this, I'm that . . . ." We should put a little more activity into our lives and be realistic that it is not natural for women to look like Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie or the Olson twins. We should eat a wide variety of foods, not skip meals and not gorge on any one thing or eat junk food. Oh I forgot, we need to drink a lot of water.

Answer 4

I have a co-worker who is vegetarian and eats balanced variety of natural foods...everything he eats is organic and natural...but he eats A LOT. He weighs over 300lbs and his wife is also obese. What do you think about that? I think counting calories is important. No matter how healthy the foods we are eating, we have to know when to stop.

Answer 5

Yeah, i'm the exact same. i'm 114 pounds and 5'6. I keep in ideas very last year interior the summer time i change into petrified of gaining weight, i might want to be particular I had finished one hundred sit down united statesin an afternoon, drink 5 cups of eco-friendly tea (it burns energy), drink one enormous jug of water, hula hoop for 1/2-hour, burn 500 energy off on my exercising bike and be particular that I in uncomplicated words ate one meal (at dinner, consisting off in uncomplicated words 500 energy). I do not forget that interior the first 2 days, my jeans were already free. That change into after I weighed about 103 pounds. those days over iciness, in spite of the undeniable fact that, I have positioned on a good number of weight or maybe in spite of the undeniable fact that i'm no longer as obsessive about it, i'm nevertheless attempting to get right down to one hundred pounds.

Answer 6

I agree, people forget that exercise is just as important, if not more important than eating low-fat meals!

Also a lot of diet products are chemically based and not healthy at all.

Answer 7

youre absolutely right. people just swallow whatever the new fad in wght. loss is. they also think being healthy and being thin are the same thing! so many people who ARE thin are just as unhealthy as obese people. they starve their bodies of the proper energy and fuel they need because theyre afraid food of any kind will make them fat. hopefully people will realize what seems so obvious to people like you and I. food,(the right kind) is our ally in the fight against fat.

Answer 8

yes, ever since my sister told me about the necessity to get in 2000 calories a day, i have struggled to do so. before that i was probably only getting around 1500 since i don't have time to eat breakfast and sometimes not lunch.

Answer 9

heck yea!! I can't understand it how shallow and ungrateful some people are. They should be happy they are here. Being "too skinny" isn't healthy either.