Comments by "JLH" (@Kyarrix) on "The TOP FOODS Youre Eating That Lead To Weight Gain (Avoid Eating This) | Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt" video.
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Let's not focus on calories too much. Calorie counting has been the meat and potatoes of the diet industry in the US.
It can be a helpful shorthand but ultimately not useful and potentially damaging when it becomes the sole focus.
When you eat 120 calories of almonds for example, to quote Dr Lustig, how many of those calories do you actually get the benefit of? 90? The rest is fiber that your gut uses. We are not bomb calorimeters. Different foods are utilized differently by our bodies. We don't get the same calorie value from a food that a bomb calorimeter would.
For that reason counting calories can be useful to get a very (very) rough estimate but it shouldn't be our sole focus. Instead We should eat real food until we are full and then stop. It is very difficult to overeat steak or salmon or eggs for example. But it is easy to overeat processed foods whether those processed foods are conventional or so-called healthy vegetarian or vegan processed foods.
Don't eat potato chips but also don't eat cassava chips. Most processed foods are engineered to bypass the body's satiety mechanisms. They are made that way on purpose in order to sell more product.
Andreas mentioned chicken breast. I wouldn't focus on chicken breast because it is low fat and not enjoyable to eat unless you combine it with other things. The food we eat should be delicious. You should enjoy it so that when you are eating the experience is a positive one rather than a chore. Steak is delicious but when you are full, you are full. If someone offers you more steak when you're full, you become nauseous. But if you are offered a cookie or a scoop of your favorite ice cream you have room because those foods bypass satiety.
Intermittent fasting is important for almost everyone. The only people who shouldn't intermittent fast are pregnant women, breastfeeding women, children and growing teens. Or someone with an eating disorder.
The rest of us need intermittent fasting. It is what our bodies evolved to do. We aren't meant to eat every few hours, doing so damages our metabolism. I use an app that tracks when and what I eat every day. It gives me an approximate caloric value but the more important part is tracking carbs and intermittent fasting. I won't always use it but for the moment it is helpful and a way to keep myself motivated.
Do whatever works for you. If counting calories works, do that. Always remember that whatever the calorie count is it won't be accurate. If it counts 120 calories for macadamia nuts you are actually getting about 90 of those calories (remember the rest goes to our gut, that's where the fiber goes). If it counts 20 calories for spinach you are getting almost nothing. But if it counts 200 calories for a donut, you are getting all of those and then some because of the insulin response.
You can do clean keto, carnivore,s vegan or vegetarian with some work. Eat foods that don't come in packages with lists of ingredients. Everything we eat should be spoilable. It shouldn't be something that can sit on a shelf for months or years.
Avoid processed foods and added sugars, there are 63 or 64 different types of added sugar in processed food at last count. Avoid pro-inflammatory vegetable and seed oils. Eat once or twice a day and then stop and let your body rest. You don't have to be in ketosis although you might want to be sometimes, the important thing is having the metabolical flexibility to use fat as an energy source.
Read Dr Jason Fung's books. Read Dr Robert Lustig's books. Watch good videos. Eat good food. Take care of yourselves and be healthy.
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