Saturday, January 22, 2022

Is a calorie deficit really all it takes to lose weight?

 Hello all! I’m 22 YO, 6 feet tall, and currently weigh 249.0 pounds. I’ve started going to the gym every other day, walking a lot, and I’m working towards my weight loss goal of getting to 200.0 pounds! Today, I ate at a restaurant (Raising Canes), and the calorie count of the three finger combo, according to the restaurant, is around 1020 without a drink (probably around 1400 total for me as I wanted a large Coke 😂). I feel full and content on this one meal, likely because of the large protein intake and so forth, which also puts me at a good caloric deficit. However, it seems too unrealistic to think that I can actually lose weight—and quite a bit of it—by only counting the calories in this meal for today, for example. I know that such factors as sodium, sugar, carbs, and so forth must play a vital role somewhere in the consideration. So, my question for curiosity’s sake it, if I ate one satisfying meal a day such as the one I have described here…is it really as single as weighing the calories in and calories out? Or, is it more nuanced? 

Thanks!

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