I am cutting down my calories at the moment to lose a bit of weight. I had an apple last night for a snack and when I tracked it on my calorie tracker app I realised it was pretty much the same amount of calories as a small chocolate bar. Does this mean that if I’m trying to lose weight I might as well be having the chocolate bar instead?
Obviously there is more fat in a chocolate bar but when I Googled it it said you should focus on calories more than fat
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If literally your only goal is to lose weight and nothing else, then no it doesn’t matter (assuming you can mentally control your caloric intake despite feeling hungrier from consuming too much sugar).
But if your goal is to look and feel better, and be more capable of activities requiring physical effort then it very much matters what you eat.
Put another way, if two identical twins consumed the same amount of calories, but one was eating a lot of candy and the other wasn’t; The twin who didn’t eat the candy would look better than the twin who did.
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