We’ve all done it, searched for that holy grail that’ll allow us to smash down those doughnuts and not gain an inch, my sister seems to have had that from birth! Lucky sod! But for the rest of us, the search continues. But whilst that was going on I thought I’d address these individuals who are saying they’ve unlocked the secret formula to weight loss.
I saw the other day a bloke saying he’d travelled the world and had discovered a monastery where the monks would eat huge amounts of food and were very lean. Jesus is that what social media marketing has become!
“When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.”
Emmy Rossum
Saw I thought “alrighty then” let’s have a look at your hidden formula that’s going to change the world. What he was preaching (no pun intended) was how these monks would feast on masses of fruit, vegetables, and meat after 8 hours fasting and working in the monastery. I couldn’t believe what I was reading, not that there was yet another hack preying on peoples need for help but that he’d created this elaborate story to basically sell intermittent fasting! What this chap was preaching about was have one huge meal, work your socks off throughout the day and you’ll lose weight… OF COURSE YOU WOULD!
But here’s the secret he didn’t want to tell, you don’t need to pay him to be your guru (I just can’t stop with the puns!!) you just need to know the premise of Energy Balance and by eating foods that are more nutritious, lower in calories and higher in satiety (that’s a fancy word for filling) you could be perceived to eat more and lose weight.
For example, in one Kirspy Kreme glazed doughnut there are around 190kcals. We know from work done that the ingredients in these are very quickly digested, therefore not very filling and delicious, so we’re more likely to over indulge.
If we decided to use that 190kcals for something else, something more filling perhaps we could have a small jacket potato with tuna. Much more nutritious, much more filling and would be perceived as “eating more”.
