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Originally Posted by The Last Noel
Like an expensive, well made car craves premium petro...giving it regular will ruin the tank. We need to eat like Ferraris ladies! (lol)
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Here's the thing. You can still overeat totally whole, unprocessed, nutritious food and gain weight! It's a question of quantity. There's nothing unhealthy about raw nuts, for instance, they contain great nutrients. So does fruit, veggies, meat, fish, shellfish, poultry, etc... but if you eat too much quality fuel, you can still get fat or stay fat!
A "treat" for me might be having some toasted walnuts on my salad. It might be a container of plain Greek Yogurt with some added honey. It might be occasionally cooking my eggs with butter.
It could also be a treat at utter binge level... like eating two pounds of fresh cherries at a go... something I have done in the past! Or over-consuming my favorite combo of dried apricots, unsweetened coconut and cashews. Or eating three servings of almond butter at a time instead of one. Nutritious, but any of these eaten in excess, will keep the fat on. Likewise for grilled shrimp... another thing I love, but can easily eat to excess.
So don't assume that straying from a plan means consumption of non-nutritious junk, because it doesn't always mean that. I don't have junk in my house, but I still can manage to eat excess calories on occasion and it's all blamed nutritious food. But excess is excess and I call a spade a spade and own up to it when I do it.
Mind you, I agree, that when one cuts calories a lot, it's important to have as many of those be nutritious as possible. I too will crave my veggies if I don't have enough of them! (Usually not a problem...)
But that doesn't mean that you can't have an occasional serving of something that's not particularly nutritious from time to time. I keep my calories at a good enough level that I get a blamed lot of nutrition from my every day foods, so I don't worry if I have an occasional ice cream, or pizza or candy bar or what have you. The key for me is to keep the junk VERY occasional, count the calories and enjoy it.
