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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Try eating your calorie limit in chocolate one day, and try eating your calorie limit in Apples another day.
With chocolate you will feel like you have eaten almost nothing. With apples you might feel so full you can’t eat enough of them.
But you are on the right way. By using a calorie tracker, you learn which foods have a better calorie/satiation ratio. If you only have 500 calories left for dinner, naturally the apples will look way more appealing then the small chocolate bar. And you will really struggle to justify a softdrink, if instead you could drink water and eat something else that satiates you.
Here is a study that gives you an overview:
[http://ernaehrungsdenkwerkstatt.de/fileadmin/user_upload/EDWText/TextElemente/Ernaehrungswissenschaft/Naehrstoffe/Saettigung_Lebensmittel_Satiety_Index.pdf](http://ernaehrungsdenkwerkstatt.de/fileadmin/user_upload/EDWText/TextElemente/Ernaehrungswissenschaft/Naehrstoffe/Saettigung_Lebensmittel_Satiety_Index.pdf)
Reduce white bread, eat Potatoes (not fried). Eat fruits and vegatables, reduce noodles.
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