WEIGHT LOSS QUESTIONS

[Gymbuilt800]

Any Nutritionists out there?

Was wondering, is it worse to eat more bad calories all at once during one day in a week, then to spread out the bad calories throughout the week. Does it even make a difference looking at calories in and calories out. Looking for a scientific answer, in terms of how the body burns calories.

[whome]

I found this website useful when I started on my "improved fitness" journey at the beginning of the year -@ http://www.caloriesperhour.com/tutorial_all.php  - it includes a section on nutrition that explains things better than I can and I found it especially helpful because I can go back and read it again every now and then - lol - 

Hope this helps -

Good luck and welcome to fitbitting

Craig

[Heybales]

Bad? Good?

The calories and what your body gets from them as far as macros and how it responds is going to be the same if they have the same mix.

You have Snickers and you got carbs, protein, and fat. Very little nutritional value though.

You have some almonds and carrots of same calories and macro makeup, the body is going to deal with it the same way and same immediate effects - but you'll get more nutritients out of it for long term good.

Insulin is going to go up same amount, drop same amount. May be more fiber in "good" food so that you actually process less carbs from it, so tad less calories is actually usable by body, but not much for that 1 comparison.

So it's not really matter of the bad calories, since body is going to see the broken down macros exactly the same, but rather is your body going to be better with lack of nutritients spread out or in one bad day?

Unless you are eating down at 800 calories, you aren't even going to get a difference, because you are eating enough in general for the level of "good" and "bad" you are talking about to not matter. The less you eat though the more important those differences do matter.

If you had a huge extreme you were talking about, like 90% of your calories non-nutritious compared to 90% nutritious, even at higher calorie levels - then there might be something to be concerned about.

Or if you were limiting nutritious calories during the week in order to have more non on the 1 day, then that would be bad extreme too. But if each day is 14% of weekly calories, and the 1 day is still the 14%, then that's not a big effect.

Read articles on Lyle McDonald's site if you want study references and explanations from them concerning being reasonable with these types of choices.

As far as burning calories - doesn't even matter where they came from at that point. Glycogen is glycogen, and fat is fat, when used as energy source. Already converted for use from what you ate.

Now, what you just ate does determine the fuel source for 2-4 hrs after eating, because it's what you just ate, which can also determine how fast you got back to normal burning mode.