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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Weight loss can be simplified as using more calories than you intake in a day.
Also the whole ‘fat is evil’ thing was a ridiculous myth half-inspired by the sugar industry to take pressure off of sugar being so bad, as extra carbohydrates such as sugar tend to be stored in the body quite easily. It’s wild we still have a lot of things labeled ‘Fat Free!’ Meanwhile a single serving can still casually have your entire sugar intake for the day covered. The body needs fat, there is such thing as healthy fat aha.
One thing as well when you compare an apple to a chocolate bar, is that the apple will keep you more full for longer as the body kinda processes through the chocolate bar fairly quickly and will spike insulin levels. Natural sugar in things such as fruit are less of a sugar-shock to the body and wont have your insulin explode.
Plus eating something like a chocolate bar vs an apple, both may have similar calories, but those calories are wasted with the chocolate bar since you don’t really get anything else out of it like important vitamins.
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