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Possibly an argument that’s been had in this thread (or last years) but I’ve been listening to an excellent book called the glucose revolution which asserts that calories are pretty irrelevant. The combinations of fibre, fats, proteins and starchy/ sugary carbs and the order in which you eat them has a much greater impact on bloody sugar, insulin and fat use/ storage and therefore weight gain and loss. I’d highly recommend it.
Jimm-
Possibly an argument that’s been had in this thread (or last years) but I’ve been listening to an excellent book called the glucose revolution which asserts that calories are pretty irrelevant. The combinations of fibre, fats, proteins and starchy/ sugary carbs and the order in which you eat them has a much greater impact on bloody sugar, insulin and fat use/ storage and therefore weight gain and loss. I’d highly recommend it.
I wish the Supersapiens blood glucose sensor thing was a more reasonable price - would be really interested in what my body did in response to food and exercise.
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What you eat is definitely as important as calorie count.
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davidual
Sounds delicious, but calories sound a bit too high to fit it easily into a diet?
Also watch out for how many calories you are adding with sesame oil. 40 calories per teaspoon, easy to load it on because it tastes so good.
As a benchmark, a Big Mac and medium fries (+ diet coke) is 830 calories.
No doubt the chicken breast on brown rice meal will be better for you, but on a calorie perspective, you'd be better off with a Macdonalds.
Obviously calorie goals differ for everyone, but I try and make my 'diet' meals no more than 500-600 calories. 3 meals in a day would be between 1500-1800 calories, with some rooms for a small snack or a coffee.
Also if you can, be really anal with weighing and measuring ingredients for your meals, at least at the start. You'd be surprised at how many calories you might be under-estimating.
Extra glug of cooking oil might be +100 calories, eyeballing the quantity of noodles, rice, pasta could be vastly different in calories.
If you're aiming for a 500 calorie deficit, that can be easily wiped out in estimation errors.