I lost about 50 lbs while having chocolate covered strawberries nearly every single night. I ate like 4-8 of them. 90-180 calories, which I budgeted for by skipping any form of snacking except sweets at night. And bananas and PB after a workout were common too, so I don’t see what the issue here is.
And there are people that have publicly lost a lot of weight while eating nothing but pizzas. Losing weight is just about consuming fewer calories than you’re expending. You can eat calorie dense foods like the OP, you just get less volume for the number of calories
From a weight loss perspective though, the OP is just a peanut butter cup and banana as a snack
Yes, all true. But 1, if you’ve worked out, banana and PB is a great protein and recovery snack, and 2, if this helps you not eat cookies or ice cream, that’s far healthier. You could even dip them in some nuts or granola after the chocolate. Also, one could use less peanut butter than this, and you’d have control over the chocolate used.
In the big picture, you made healthy choices that made you lose weight. That’s great!
You treated yourself to something that’s healthier than other sweets you could have chosen. Totally reasonable for the same reason a reasonable amount of dressing can be in a salad (makes things palatable so you’ll actually eat that healthy stuff)
But none of that makes chocolate-dipped strawberries a healthy option, just like a plate of buffalo wings and blue cheese isn’t healthy just because it’s served with a few carrot/celery sticks. There comes a point where the good is outweighed by the bad. Strawberries are pretty high sugar as it is, but being a whole fruit makes it overall a net good IMO (you get other vitamins and fiber and stuff). But that chocolate dip is pretty hard to seriously justify, and can tip the balance pretty easily.
On the other hand, having the frozen chocolate raspberries (not strawberries) curbed cravings for icecream, and cookies, thus being an overall healthy choice, because my brain pretty much considers chocolate a critical resource. And normally that would be milk chocolate, but those TruFru raspberries with the dark and white chocolate are a perfect formula.
I wish I could pin this comment. These little egos just don’t get it. I’m speaking in reality and they are speaking in fallacy. So they can’t understand my words.
Peanut butter is one of the most calorie dense foods I can think of. Chocolate is very calorie dense as well. Bananas are less calorie dense, but still dense for a fruit
Would this be healthier than eating a Reeses peanut butter cup and a banana? If so, how?
Calories are energy. When more calories are taken in than burned off, that surplus is stored. Unhealthiness is largely linked to weight in this day and age.
Now yes, there’s a huge difference between 600 calories of ice cream and 600 calories of a well-balanced salad. But going to the original post, chocolate and nut butter is not exactly a health food or else I’d be at my healthiest from all the Reese’s cups I avoided handing out to kids at Halloween (they can have the Milk Duds). Adding banana certainly helps, but is there enough there to turn the whole package into something “healthy”? I have my doubts.
You are delusional. And type of nut or seed butter is incredibly calorie dense from fats. And yes, when the obesity rate is 40%, calories are absolutely the single most important metric for health.
How many calories does it have? Banana, peanut (or cashew or almond etc.) butter and chocolate are all high cal foods. So mixing them is unlikely to be low cal
As for your second point, I agree 100%. There’s an entire discussion to be had about the nuance. I think the most important thing is not assuming that low cal foods are healthy in any way, and also not assuming that healthy foods would be low cal. Basically just two separate concepts, sometimes they overlap sometimes not
False, eating too many calories leads to weight issues that are hard on the body. If you’re eating things loaded with sugar and calories all the time you’re going to have to exercise a lot or you’re gonna have a bad time.
It DOES look good, but healthy is a bit of a misleading title.
My guess… That’s about 80-90 cals per bite, and it’s a high glycemic index treat. 1-2 might be good pre lifting session, or 2-3 post workout combined with another carb and protein source. But definitely more on the treat side than healthy food side. It looks delicious though!
It doesn’t have high calories. Also High calorie foods can be healthy as calories have nothing to do with the healthiness of food. 😐
I lost about 50 lbs while having chocolate covered strawberries nearly every single night. I ate like 4-8 of them. 90-180 calories, which I budgeted for by skipping any form of snacking except sweets at night. And bananas and PB after a workout were common too, so I don’t see what the issue here is.
And there are people that have publicly lost a lot of weight while eating nothing but pizzas. Losing weight is just about consuming fewer calories than you’re expending. You can eat calorie dense foods like the OP, you just get less volume for the number of calories
From a weight loss perspective though, the OP is just a peanut butter cup and banana as a snack
Yes, all true. But 1, if you’ve worked out, banana and PB is a great protein and recovery snack, and 2, if this helps you not eat cookies or ice cream, that’s far healthier. You could even dip them in some nuts or granola after the chocolate. Also, one could use less peanut butter than this, and you’d have control over the chocolate used.
In the big picture, you made healthy choices that made you lose weight. That’s great!
You treated yourself to something that’s healthier than other sweets you could have chosen. Totally reasonable for the same reason a reasonable amount of dressing can be in a salad (makes things palatable so you’ll actually eat that healthy stuff)
But none of that makes chocolate-dipped strawberries a healthy option, just like a plate of buffalo wings and blue cheese isn’t healthy just because it’s served with a few carrot/celery sticks. There comes a point where the good is outweighed by the bad. Strawberries are pretty high sugar as it is, but being a whole fruit makes it overall a net good IMO (you get other vitamins and fiber and stuff). But that chocolate dip is pretty hard to seriously justify, and can tip the balance pretty easily.
On the other hand, having the frozen chocolate raspberries (not strawberries) curbed cravings for icecream, and cookies, thus being an overall healthy choice, because my brain pretty much considers chocolate a critical resource. And normally that would be milk chocolate, but those TruFru raspberries with the dark and white chocolate are a perfect formula.
I wish I could pin this comment. These little egos just don’t get it. I’m speaking in reality and they are speaking in fallacy. So they can’t understand my words.
Peanut butter is one of the most calorie dense foods I can think of. Chocolate is very calorie dense as well. Bananas are less calorie dense, but still dense for a fruit
Would this be healthier than eating a Reeses peanut butter cup and a banana? If so, how?
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Sorry you got dog piled op. No way you could’ve known these folks were using healthy as a stand-in for low calorie.
If they want to cry about calories. Then they can do that. Smart people that are interested will just make the snack lol
Calories are energy. When more calories are taken in than burned off, that surplus is stored. Unhealthiness is largely linked to weight in this day and age.
Now yes, there’s a huge difference between 600 calories of ice cream and 600 calories of a well-balanced salad. But going to the original post, chocolate and nut butter is not exactly a health food or else I’d be at my healthiest from all the Reese’s cups I avoided handing out to kids at Halloween (they can have the Milk Duds). Adding banana certainly helps, but is there enough there to turn the whole package into something “healthy”? I have my doubts.
How dare you slander the duds like that!
You are delusional. And type of nut or seed butter is incredibly calorie dense from fats. And yes, when the obesity rate is 40%, calories are absolutely the single most important metric for health.
Stop eating JUNK food
Impressive thinking. I wonder what you consider High Calorie food.
How many calories does it have? Banana, peanut (or cashew or almond etc.) butter and chocolate are all high cal foods. So mixing them is unlikely to be low cal
As for your second point, I agree 100%. There’s an entire discussion to be had about the nuance. I think the most important thing is not assuming that low cal foods are healthy in any way, and also not assuming that healthy foods would be low cal. Basically just two separate concepts, sometimes they overlap sometimes not
False, eating too many calories leads to weight issues that are hard on the body. If you’re eating things loaded with sugar and calories all the time you’re going to have to exercise a lot or you’re gonna have a bad time.
It DOES look good, but healthy is a bit of a misleading title.
My guess… That’s about 80-90 cals per bite, and it’s a high glycemic index treat. 1-2 might be good pre lifting session, or 2-3 post workout combined with another carb and protein source. But definitely more on the treat side than healthy food side. It looks delicious though!