What Does 200 Calories Look Like?

Re:What Does 200 Calories Look Like? by mistercow on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @11:56AM (#5245360)

The main thing that's useful about low-carb diets is that foods high in protein and fat are filling. You don't need ketosis (which is probably a harmful medical condition) to lose weight, but if you get most of your calories from carbohydrates, you'll tend to have trouble feeling satisfied without going overboard on calories.

So you're partially right about satiety levels, but in my experience eating something high in carbs won't make you more hungry; it just won't do much to make you less hungry.

When I'm doing caloric restriction, I try to eat just enough carbs to stave off ketosis, and it works pretty well.

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Re:What Does 200 Calories Look Like? by BSousa on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @12:25PM (#5245595)

I had the opposite feeling.

In general, I try to eat lowish carbs (maybe 50-100g a day) avoiding mostly grain based products. When I was more seriously tracking what I ate and did a lot of weight lifting, I ended up eating a few more carbs (maybe around 200g) on training days. Basically high fat/low carb on non training days, moderate carb/low fat on training days. Protein remained the same.

The days I was more satisfied were the carb days. The problem was the next day. Whenever I ate a lot of carbs, the next day I would just feel hungry all the time even though all I ate was protein and fat. The days following not having carbs, even though I ate carbs, I rarely felt hungry.

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Re:What Does 200 Calories Look Like? by kafkaesque on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @12:15PM (#5245502)

See, this is what is so interesting to me.

It takes more good fats and protein to fill me up.

Good carbs fill me up very, very fast.

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