Eli5: Calories. How do they work with weight? Would 100 calories of sugar be the same as 100 calories of protein? How many would result in gaining or losing a inch off your waist?
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The are the same in terms of calories; that’s like asking which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of lead.
But you don’t want to go using that lead to stuff a pillow. That sugar won’t be as filling and won’t satisfy you for as long as you’ll be hungry and back for more sooner. The source of that sugar also likely doesn’t have much else you need with it while the protein probably does, so you get more useful things with protein than just calories.
As others said the last can’t be said for sure, but the rule of thumb (that I was taught) is for men, 11 calories per pound of desired weight and 10 for women. So a man who wants to be 180lbs should eat 1980 calories. But you’ll want to be under that to reach it quicker. There’s just no way to tell when that would take an inch off a specific person’s waist.
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