Originally Posted by
jngymrat
I heard many times that 'it doesnt matter where your calories come from but as long as you dont exceed your daily caloric limit you'll be fine'
If this is what you have always heard then now you can say that what you have always heard is incorrect. Why in the world would you believe that? You will continue to hear that a calorie is a calorie is a calorie blah, blah, blah. Did you know the color purple contains caloric value? and yet if it were possible to eat it would not benefit you at all, that is to say that there is no expendable energy to exert from the color purple, why you ask? because its the friggin' color purple!
Now if it were possible that it doesn't matter what you eat and a calorie is a calorie, then just look at a sweet potato for your enlightenment. Now, a great source of yummy carbohydrate goodness, by itself! natural, whole food, pure, lean, unadulterated fuel.
Now lets add some butter to it, because lets face it butter makes everything taste better right. Well, now you have just taken the way your body recognizes that beautiful complex carbohydrate and turned it into a fat storage bomb. Not one that will make you obese mind you, but will definitely make you store the fuel for fat.
When you eat this buttery sweet potato, what happens is quite amazing, because lets face it the body is amazing! I mean it can grow a baby in it for pete sake! so after it hits the tummy, this is how that calorie is a calorie is a calorie starts to add up. Your Pancreas starts to produce insulin which helps the break down and aids absorption of the small intestine and a ton of other things, but what happens when you have intermingled a natural food with a saturated fat is nothing short of amazing (in a bad way). the body takes the food and begins the slow glycemic climb of the sweet potato but with the introduction of the saturated fat begins to make the body store the fuel rather than burn it.
Now the main problem here is not that the body has shifted gears in the way it metabolizes glycogen storage and the halt of burning a primary fuel source, but that the entire meal you eat with that sweet potato also gets lumped into that category, drink a coke with it and I can say that scientifically, your body will store 90% of that meal as "excess" fat, or rather the "bad carbs" and bad fats as fat. This is the same affect of a big mac meal or a subsequent replacement. Your right in that its all a pile of calories, but your body has a different idea of what its going to do with them and how it will store them.
The bottom line is this, the "wrong" food will indeed make you fat, period! stop looking at the calorie, its not making you fat! your source of calories are. Food for thought.
By the way, 405's evaluation of your food consumption and intake is right on point!
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. Yeah, I was weighing around 175 lbs like a year ago, unfortunately I was involved in a car accident and broke my jaw and wrist. Thus, My mouth was wired shut for 6 weeks and I lost pretty much all my muscle. It took me four months to fully recover, now I'm trying to get back in the gym and planning on gaining back (bulking) all the hard worked muscle I once had -____-. Its very frustrating and I don't wish this on anyone. Enough of my rant lol, my stats are 165 lbs..I dont know my bf%, could you help me guesstimate it man? I'll post a pic below. In regards to iifym, I'll start cutting the junk food asap because I've been feeling sluggish and fat..plus my waist is growing too quickly which is a good indicator that I need to clean up my diet. 
, I started picking up swimming a week ago, where I've been doing laps twice a week for 45 mins moderate intensity. I was Reading about swimming and its a great way of doing cardio, plus I enjoy it so thats always good 
