So I’m trying to get fit — I’m already fit but trying to optimize it, you know? But generally had never looked into food and stuff.
Most nights I make a concoction of rice and ground turkey. Today the ratio was 1.5 lbs of ground turkey to 2 cups of (unboiled) white rice, which obviously expands to about 3 times it’s volume, so equivalently was 6 cups of rice. I didn’t eat all of this in one sitting, but it’s good for about 2 dinners for me.
I was reading about calories, and the rice has a lot of calories while the turkey somehow has very little. But then the rice is also a carbohydrate? I know these things fundamentally, but now I’m at the point of trying to understand and apply that knowledge.
Can someone what these things are?
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I haven’t seen anyone say this yet, and please correct me if I’m wrong:
The three macronutrients (not counting alcohol here) are carbs, fats, proteins. Each gram of a given macronutrient has a fixed value of calories. IIRC it’s something like 4 kcal per gram of protein/carb, and 9 kcal per gram of fat. However, there’s also a thermic effect – carbs are easy to burn and protein is hard to burn, so your body spends differing amounts of energy to process each.
That might be why protein is so damn filling and carbs/fats less so.
Anyway, remember that calories are a unit of energy measurement, and macronutrients provide you with energy amounts that we count in calories. That should clear up the mystery of your rice. It is made of carbohydrates, and carbohydrates are processed by your body into energy which is measured in calories.
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