Calories

[Mowbray]

If i ate a bowl of Special K for breakfast and a bag of Walkers crisps (11.4g FAT) and a bag of McCoys (15.1g FAT) for lunch.
Would i put on weight or would my body use this fat up as energy?

I have been working in the office today with very little walking.

thanks

[Loosehead]

depends what else you eat. If calories in minus calories out is negative your body will take the shorfall from stores if it's positive it will store the extra.

[Mowbray]

I won't be eating anything else.

Thanks for your answer loosehead.

[Gef]

I doubt if you would put on weight as you have only consumed (at a guess) about 500 calories.

However, I would not recommend this as a diet since it is pretty unbalanced and even 26.5g of fat is well below the recommended amount. Fats are an important source of vitamins.

[Scarlett]

You must also remember that your body uses foods in different ways. Saturated (bad) fats are used differently to complex carbs. Some foods are easier to absorb than others. Some make you feel fuller for longer. Crisps are the devil's food. They have next to no nutritional value- are almost wholly fat, salt and additives, and certainly do not fill you up. They are what's known as "empty calories". Special K may be lower in calories than other cereals, but it is basically made of crap- sugar and salt.

If you had porridge and a banana for breakfast, and a wholemeal salad roll for lunch, you would feel ten times healthier. Sorry if that does not answer your question!!

[Goodsoulette]

the sorts of fats she has been eating though are not good. Cant you eat salads?? Why not have a rice cake 2mo. If you find you are starving and craving rubbish food, I suck on a fishermans friend or a strong mint or brush teeth as everything tastes rubbish after that, so it stops me eating.

Those 2 bags of crisps also have way to much salt in them, hope you have drunk lots of water too.

[Gef]

Sorry scarlett, but like many others you are making comments about crisps which are not true.

"They have next to no nutritional value-are almost wholly fat, salt and additives...."

Managed to find a packet of crisps at the back of a cupboard - Morrison's Beef and Onion flavour. Nutrition information as follows per 25g bag:

Energy 131kcal, protein 1.5g, carbohydrate12.8g (sugars 0.7g), fat 8.2g (saturates 3.7g), fibre 1.0g, sodium 0.2g, salt 0.4g.

Actually that's not bad as a quick snack although I agree that the fat and sdalt content could be reduced.

[Scarlett]

The thing about crisps though is that they are empty calories. You can eat 5 bags and still never feel "full". They taste nice because they are pumped full of fat, flavours and crunchiness. But they do nobody any favours, nutritionally.

[Goodsoulette]

Im with you all the way there scarlett. 130 calories could be ingested in so many better ways.

[Gef]

I wish that someone would actually read my reply.

[boderectium]

You will put on weight if you don't burn any calories. Putting on weight is the very least of your worries looking at that diet.