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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At the base level, no, it doesn’t matter. Calories are calories.
But here’s the thing, that apple you ate is far larger, and far more filling, than the small chocolate bar.
If you had eaten the small chocolate bar instead, do you think you would have still been hungry afterwards? And if you were still gonna be hungry would you have the discipline to go to bed hungry? Or would you have eaten more.
Because that is another big part of the equation, sure, on an item to item basis they have the same calories. But for your overall diet, which is going to help you succeed more.
Because sure, you can lose weight eating nothing but chocolate, but you will have to have the discipline to stop when you hit your calorie limit, and to go about the rest of your day and night being hungry still. Some people can do this. Other people can’t.
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