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Originally Posted by Bonnie
Just wanted to share! 
You want to lose weight??? then, STOP EATING OUT!!!!!!
I have never seen a population that eats out so much. Try cooking at home you know what goes into each meal, you control the portion size, and you control the caloric intake - hence healthier living, and weight loss.   |
Bingo! Many people can destroy their entire weeks weight loss by going out to eat in one day of the week. Other people can have small cheat meals (which sometimes can be beneficial psychologically and from a hormonal standpoint) that won't actually deter the weight loss much as long as it's within reason and they know exactly how many calories are in it. For example, if a person was able to eat 500 less calories per day than their "maintenance" calories. Then, they decided to go out on Sunday to Cheesecake Factory. If one of their meals had 2500 calories in it including drink refills (but their normal meal is usually 350 calories when they don't go out to eat), and they had a desert that was 1000 calories, there total intake for that meal including dessert was 3500 calories. That's 3150 extra calories in their diet. They WERE on track to loose 1 pound that week, but will now they'll barely see a tenth of a pound which isn't noticeable anyhow on a scale. This type of calorie range isn't that difficult to obtain when going out to eat at some restaurants with large portion sizes. This is just a rough example and more extreme example, but you get the idea and it happens to a lot of people. I always ask clients, "how did you do hitting our calorie limit mark this week?!!!". If they tend to respond with "wellllllll, I thinkkkkkk I did pretty well, but not sure", then I know the chance they hit the mark and stayed consistent was slim. I tell them that you have to KNOW, not THINK you hit the mark, as this leaves no way to stray from that level, and you can guarantee weight loss by the end of the week.