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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All calories fuel the same, but they do not fill the same.
You could eat 1500 calories of veg or you could eat 1500 calories of McDonalds. You would lose weight so long as you held to it (though water weight will likely differentiate between the two).
The difference between the two is that 1500 calories of veg is an awful lot of veg. And the more you eat, the less hungry you feel. Which leads to less cravings making you less likely to break on your diet. Lean, high protein foods (eg chicken breasts) are also great for keeping you full.
The best approach is to not completely ban any one food, but to work out a moderation where you are creating a calorie deficit (or maintenance if not dieting) over a long time period. You may have a day you go over calories by 1000 with a nice great big pizza. But if the next 3 days you were 500 under each, youd burn fat over the 4 days. When you find this balance, it won’t feel like a diet at all and you won’t struggle with hunger etc.
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