What's the point in counting calories? Just curious.
666_Maggots~PassionForGlory BN-1
2012/07/01 00:39:45
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CCRNRT 2012/07/01 00:46:41
I never really understood until a friend (a YOUNG girl) was told she had a fatty liver VERY painful!). Which usually leads to NASH and then liver/kidney falure. Along with a host of other bad stuff. Her perception of what she was eating was WAY off (she was from an Italian/Portuagese family) She took a nutrition class....bought a calculator and joined the Y. Four years later she lost all the extra weight and improved her fatty liver(but ended up being diabetic:( )STILL has to pay attention to the calories she is taking in because it takes a LONG time to re educate your impulses.
If you are one that is young and does not have to worry about it more power to you but for most people (a very LARGE portion of the US is way over weight) that want to slim down...it's ALL about what goes in vs what you are working off.
AND a tid bit of unsolicited advise:
Your body DOES change in your mid 30's a biological fact that no one can get around(sometimes it happens after yu have kids...with men and women) At 25 ish your body is completly grown so when 35ish rolls around womens fertility goes WAY down which is a signal your metablisum(sp?) ...
I never really understood until a friend (a YOUNG girl) was told she had a fatty liver VERY painful!). Which usually leads to NASH and then liver/kidney falure. Along with a host of other bad stuff. Her perception of what she was eating was WAY off (she was from an Italian/Portuagese family) She took a nutrition class....bought a calculator and joined the Y. Four years later she lost all the extra weight and improved her fatty liver(but ended up being diabetic:( )STILL has to pay attention to the calories she is taking in because it takes a LONG time to re educate your impulses.
If you are one that is young and does not have to worry about it more power to you but for most people (a very LARGE portion of the US is way over weight) that want to slim down...it's ALL about what goes in vs what you are working off.
AND a tid bit of unsolicited advise:
Your body DOES change in your mid 30's a biological fact that no one can get around(sometimes it happens after yu have kids...with men and women) At 25 ish your body is completly grown so when 35ish rolls around womens fertility goes WAY down which is a signal your metablisum(sp?) slows down. So I think making watching what you eat(AKA eat healthy 90% of the time) and making yourself be active in your teens-on up makes it a habit that will benifit you in your 30's on up:)
Calories are unit used to measure the amount of energy in food. More specifically, each calorie represents the amount of energy it takes to heat up a liter of water by one degree. For instance, a hamburger with 400 calories has enough energy to heat 400 liters of water by one degree.
The human body uses 2000 - 3500 calories per day just to stay alive, depending on size and age. Theoretically, the 400 calorie hamburger doesn't make one "fat" but gives the body 400 calories of energy. A man about 5'11" and 230lbs burns about 3400 calories sitting on his ass. In order for him to gain weight from burgers, he'd have to eat 8 hamburgers daily (with no calorie containing liquids). Even then, he'd gain such a small amount of weight it would virtually unnoticeable for weeks.
People that don't eat much, won't gain weight. Fat people can eat a lot but gain no weight because the amount of energy it requires for their bodies to operate. I hate to poke fun but this is why fat people are so hungry sometimes. The way to effectively battle fat is to consume less energy than the body needs. Therefore, the body has to consume stored energy (fat)...
Eat too many calories and not exercise to burn it off, you get fat.