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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They’re not the same due to glycemic index.
Its how fast after eating something sweet foes it get absorbed and how much insulin is produced.
Chocolates have a very high GI meaning that they will be absorbed really fast and will spike insulin.
Meanwhile apples have much lower GI due to fibers and dont spike insulin.
Why is this important ? Even though both have same amount of calories, the way they will be distributed is gonna be different. High GI food is gonna be stores as fat as insulin increases fat deposits and decreases lypolisis.
So the same amount of calories doesn’t mean that theyre same calories.
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