Those things affect your feeling of satiety but they have a minuscule effect on your weight.
I don't count calories either, only in retrospect sometimes to make sure that I'm not actually overeating. I just try to eat a variety of fresh foods, lots of vegetables, limit carbs from grains, no added sugar or very little in the form of condiments, and the biggest one is only eat when I'm hungry. If you are eating healthy fats, protein and fiber you will be full before you consume too many calories.
No, I don't think 1000 calories is very much. Take a regular grilled cheese sandwich. Two slices of bread is about 150-200 calories, a tablespoon of butter is about 100, 2 ounces of cheese is about 200. That's about 500 total for one sandwich. You're telling me you could eat one sandwich in the morning and one in the afternoon for all your food the whole day and not feel hungry? It just seems like not very much food unless your a tiny person who gets full off half a sandwich. A very light breakfast of say an egg, a cup of greek yogurt and a cup of strawberries is around 300 cals. I guess you could have that three times but I'd starve.
a grilled cheese is probably the worst example you could come up with, it's pretty much nothing but carbs and fat with lots of salt and some amount of protein. white bread is bad in itself to be honest: not unhealthy per se, but nutritionally almost worthless and high in calories. around here we almost never eat that kind of bread. I mostly eat sourdough, rye, mixed, or protein-rich breads.
I mean, look at it this way. 1000 thousand calories is like 50 small cucumbers. 50 cucumbers will fill anyone up. you can apply this to so many vegetables. satiety is never a problem for me anyway since I always start my day off with complex carbs in the form of (mostly) unprocessed cereals: oats, amaranth, quinoa popcorn I make myself, spelt, bran and many others. pair that with healthy bread and you have almost a days worth of fiber and complex carbohydrates. those have a positive effect on blood sugar, unlike white bread, meaning you won't get hungry as fast. but to be honest, since I've started IM fasting I have lost all feelings of hunger. which makes sense, of course, since man in the 21st century (in the 1st world) never actually has a lack of energy. we eat when we feel appetite, not actual hunger. the feeling of proper hunger is something we're rarely confronted with. I'm not a very tiny person, I'm at around 175lbs and almost 6'1 in height. still, I get by with 1000 calories easily. it just really depends on so many factors
but I do agree: 1000 calories is not much at all for an entire day. many foods common in America and Europe are calory dense. I assume the average meal of the average American is a little less than 1000cal (actually, a menu with a small burger, small fries and small coke is slightly over 1000 depending on your fast food chain of choice), so for many people it would feel like eating one meal a day. which, btw, still is fine. there is even a diet revolving around this called OMAD (one meal a day), which is pretty much just a bastardization of OM fasting. still, it helps many people!
I'm hungry sometimes, often when I'm feeling my tummy rumbling I'll drink a glass of water, and that helps me get by. I eat my larger meal first thing, and I can feel full quite easily, so a single sandwich with an egg and a slice of cheese will fill me up nicely. I don't go to bed feeling hungry at all, and I manage with my limited diet. I could easily get by on having an egg, a cup of yogurt, and a cup of strawberries three times a day and get by, but I'd want to mix up my diet more than that for nutrition.
I drink tea. gives you a nice feeling on "having something in your stomach", but has absolutely 0 calories!
I agree with everything you say in the bolded part and think that it's probably the most solid nutritional advice anyone could follow, so I doubt I could tell you much more
I follow a similiar pattern with my diet. satiety is, of course, not only related to blood sugar and fiber, but also to psychology. once we're used to a certain type of food we do not feel full if we don't consume it. my mom, for example, literally cannot go one meal without eating lots of carbs. it has to be either noodles, potatoes, bread, rice.. if she doesn't eat any of that she will not feel full, irregardless of how much food/how many calories she ate. it does not feel like a proper meal to her. for me, if a meal doesn't have any kind of proper protein source, I feel that way, too. that is a hard thing to get over.
Mine recommends 1600 calories each day, but that's for maintenance and I want to lose weight. I'm staying under 1,000 most days, like today I had a breakfast sandwich I'm calculating at being under 400 calories, and for dinner I'll have a bowl of steamed broccoli which will be about 60 calories, so my total for today should be under 450. Maybe I'll have a couple clementines later, those are about 35 each, so I can still stay well under my target. Oh yes and I'll have some prunes, maybe 100 calories, so I'm still doing well
@yung.carl.jung oh thank you, I understand a lot what you're saying about bodybuilding, I see what you mean about motives. I guess I was just confused for games, because
I struggle to see a difference between playing games for fun or just because you enjoy doing them, to me both of those motives seem very internal? I play computer games because I enjoy playing too, I'm not trying to accomplish anything or really alleviate boredom, they're just fun to play.
well, I agree that enjoyment and fun seem to be almost the same, so let me be more specific: I play games whenever I want to play games. I might or might not enjoy it, that's not the relevant factor. right now I am modding a game in my free time. I do not enjoy the process of modding at all, it's mostly tedious work, but I really want to do it, I just really want to. it doesn't have a value-judgement attached to it, nor does it need a reason. I want to do [thing], I do [thing]. I load up a game because I want to play. I might or might not enjoy it, I might or might not be frustrated, I might or might not improve, or win, all these things are pretty irrelevant, I play for playing's sake. it's like that with many things in my life right now.. I don't really read books for the escapism anymore, or because they "make you smarter", or because being "well read" is something to strive for, I read when I want to read.
