So when do people stop going out to eat?

[Chief Pagan]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Calories in/calories out is the simplest way to maintain your weight for the average person.

A big issue with highly processed food is that it is generally very high cal so people struggle to not take in excess calories. You can sit down with a bag of chips and a soda and take in 500 calories in 15 minutes and still be hungry. It's terrible.

Well not really because not all calories have the same effect on your body.

I remember reading some study where they controlled what the participants ate for breakfast and lunch and then in the afternoon the participants got something like a 400 calorie snack.

Some got 400 calories from a sugary drink. Some from yogurt, some from a piece of steak etc.

Then they let them all self serve how ever much dinner they wanted of spaghetti or something.

The ones consuming the steak reduced their dinner consumption by almost 400 calories compared to the ones drinking sugar. The yogurt was in between.

So drinking sugar does nothing to keep you from being hungry later, duh. But eating steak did.

But that's the point.

Calories in aren't the all same. That's why high protein diets work to lose weight...

And 400 calories of steak is a fairly small/quick package...

So being high calorie quick to eat isn't really the issue.