“Huh, this post title sounds different than what you emphasized in your last two weight-loss posts Dr. Sam?
I thought you said it was all about the calories.”
If that’s what you thought, go read those posts (The Hacker’s Diet and How to Lose Weight) again, a little more closely.
What I was emphasizing with those posts was that when it comes to losing weight (fat), it’s primarily all about the calories you consume.
I don’t want this message however to be misinterpreted as saying something along the lines of “As long as the calories are where they need to be, eat whatever the heck you want.”
That is most definately NOT my message.
Continue reading ‘What you eat does matter!’
If you remember in my How to lose weight post not too long ago, I gave you the zero dollar answer to that million dollar question.
That post ended up being about the equivalent length of a 13 page Microsoft Word document.
It seemed to me like an awful lot of writing to get across my basic message regarding fat loss, a message which is virtually overlooked in the myriad of diet books out there.
In a nutshell, my message is something along the lines of “While what you eat is important and you should definitely strive to make healthy foods the mainstay of your diet, and while getting plenty of exercise is important and you should definitely strive to get plenty of good exercise, when it comes to gaining or losing fat, all of that is trumped by the more important concept of how much you eat. When it comes to gaining or losing fat, it really is all about the calories you consume.”
Continue reading ‘More on How to lose weight. The Hacker’s Diet’
