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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Calories are energy. Eat too much energy, it sits there and sticks to your body. Eat less, and the stuff *already* in your body gets used for energy.
Protein builds your body. Without enough protein and calories, your body eats its own building blocks. With extra protein and calories, your body (can, if you work out) use energy to add more building blocks.
Carbs are big chains of sugar. Your body needs them to make everything else work right, but too many of them will stick to your body until you burn it off. (Keto dieters use ketones, instead, which is a whole different ELI5.)
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