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Is it bad?
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1.I am on a diet and my mom bought me these chewy wholesome granola bars. I dont know if alot of people eat them...but are bad for you?
2.How many calories and carbs should i have a day for sufficent weight loss?
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well my sister eats them n shes watching her weight so im pretty sure there good for you
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1. They're probably good to eat, but if you want to know for certain, read the ingrediants and look up anything that looks unfamiliar.
2. Carbohydrates are almost irrelevent; they're just a specific form that nutrition comes in. As for calories: eat less than you use in a day. And, contrary to what you may have heard, it's not a matter of straight addition; your body is not 100% efficient, so not all (or even most) of your unused calories will become fat, and your fat will not be converted to energy in a linear fashion with regards to your activity level.
Calories, as you probably know, are a measure of energy. The number of calories in a food that you read on the food packaging is determined by literally burning the food; the amount of heat energy produced is the total amount of energy in that given food, and so is equal to the number of calories. But here's the thing: when you eat food, your body does not metabolize all of it, or even most of it. That's why humans defecate; there's always stuff left over. What your body DOES metabolize is used for construction materials, of sorts; building or rebuilding cells. Some of it is used for energy. And some of that energy, which is not used, is stored as fat, either in fat cells that already exist or by creating new fat cells. Fat cells, of course, make you fat. However, when you lose weight by getting rid of fat, you're not actually getting rid of the fat cells; just some of the stuff inside of them. That's why it's easier to gain weight than it is to lose it.
But none of that answers your question, although it's necessary to understand. Basically, what you have to do is find out how your own body metabolizes food; everyone is different. Some people eat alot, but don't put on much weight. Some people eat very little, but store all of it as fat. Thus, you have to observe how your own eating habits affect your weight. Then, using that as a guideline, you can determine how much you should be eating.
But if you still want to count all your calories, here is an example of the most anal way to do it:
Say you do pullups, and your arms are 2 feet long. And, let's say for example that you weigh 120 pounds. The amount of calories used for a single pullup is:
120 * 0.45356 * 2 * 0.3048 * 0.00418400 * 9.8 = 1.360437838147584 Calories.
This is from the equation "energy= mass*gravity*change in height", converting for imperial units and converting energy units from joules to Calories.
But no one is that anal. It does show you, though, that to get rid of that donut, you really do have to do hundreds of pullups. Yow.
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1. Granola bars are healthy for you.
2. For example if you have 2000 calories and day but only burn off 1800 the remaining 200 will turn into fat. You should eat the amount of calories that you know you can burn off.
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I wouldn't say they're "bad", but I guess whether they're "bad" or not is decided upon which diet you happen to be following. Certain diets permit a certain intake or certain things, you see? Some diets may be low in protein, some diets may be high in carbohyrates, some diets may be low in carbohydrates. If you're not really "following" ANY particular diet, and you're simply choosing to cut back on the intake.. a granola bar won't do you any harm. As far as HOW MANY calories your body should intake a day, try checking out this website to 'calculate', so to speak:
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I'm shore you already knew this, but providing you cut out the EXTREMELY unhealthy foods, such as WHITE bread [substitute it with wheat], cake products, ice cream, hamburgers, and soda... [if you're used to consuming A LOT of it] you can see a MAJOR difference the first two weeks, ALONE. My friend did cut out those items.. and we were both shocked to all hell at the weight loss in that time frame!
You can find lists of healthy foods at:
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Also, it's best to eat SEVERAL small portions a day. Say, have an apple and a piece of cheese, then two hours later... have a few crakers, and an hour later have one piece of wheat toast, and so on and so forth, ya know??? Little intakes of food like that givs your body time to digest it properly. You see how that's better than eating one or two huge meals a day... because it takes too long to catch up, and it can not burn the calories quickly enough, and then just quits, as it then turns into body fat.
Goodluck on your mission though! =]
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1. Granola bars are meant to give you the nutritional values that your body needs. If you obviously know that then, I will just say that granola bars are not bad. They actually taste good. At least, I think...
2. I'm not quite sure about this one, but I do know that about 2000 calories a day and a good work-out will get you in shape.
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1. I have no clue about the bars.
2. It depends on how much you want to lose and how fast. If your also working out then, you want to burn more calories than your putting into your body. (ex: eat 900 calories and burn 1000).
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