Another reason for weight gain from drinking diet drinks is that people may subconsciously think that because they are drinking a diet soda, that gives them more leeway to eat more of everything else, hence
consuming more calories overall.
«We found that adults consuming calories during regular meals — at similar times from one day to [the] next — were less obese than people who have irregular meals, despite
consuming more calories overall,» says Gerda Pot, PhD, a visiting lecturer in the Diabetes and Nutritional Sciences Division at King's College London who worked on both papers.
In a Purdue University study, rats drinking liquids with artificial sweeteners
consumed more calories overall than rats whose drinks were sweetened with sugar.
Not exact matches
To fuel this biochemical fire you must eat nearly 50 times
more frequently than a boa constrictor of equivalent size, and
consume up to 30 times
more calories overall.
According to one study, women who ate three pears a day
consumed fewer
overall calories and lost
more weight than those who did not.
Research also shows that people who eat
more avocados weigh less and have smaller waists than those who don't, even when they don't
consume fewer
calories overall.
However, a person who exercises regularly needs to
consume more overall calories, especially protein, and obtaining it solely from whole food sources can be challenging in certain situations.
By eating
more protein and fat, both very satiating macronutrients, you may not feel hungry as often, thus
consuming fewer
calories overall throughout the day.
One factor that is important to understand in the eating of a diet that is
more 90 / 5/5 (which actually still is withing the
overall 80/10/10 guidelines), is how many
overall calories the person
consumes on a consistent basis and whether they actually manage to have sufficient levels of fatty acids in their diet without eating any overt fats.
For the study, researchers in Belgium recruited 28 healthy, active young men and began stuffing them with a truly lousy diet, composed of 50 percent fat and 30 percent
more calories,
overall, than the men had been
consuming.
Overall, men expended
more energy (2,575.6 ± 64.6 kcal / d men versus 2,045.2 ± 56.6 kcal / d women),
consumed more calories (3,850.8 ± 118.9 versus 2,277.4 ± 92.4 kcal / d), were in greater positive energy balance (1,275.2 ± 80.2 versus 232.2 ± 74.2 kcal / d), and gained
more weight (0.95 ± 0.14 versus 0.13 ± 0.16 kg) than women during ad libitum food availability regardless of sleep opportunity (all sex differences P < 0.0015).
Key Insight: During each of these studies, those actually on the paleo diet were
consuming overall fewer
calories than their dietary counterparts (who were on
more «modern» diets).