Do you gain weight when eating over calorie limit? How can vegans or people on raw food diet eat so much without weight gain?

[Anonymous]

People always say that if you go over your calorie limit you put on weight. It does not matter if you eat healthy foods or bad ones. So why are vegan and people on the raw food diet so skinny and eat about 3,000 calories per day without putting on weight?
For example Freelee The Banana Girl on YouTube has amazing body, is healthy and fit but eats soooo much.
She says that it does not matter how many calories you eat. You can eat way over you limit with fruits such as banana and rice and brown pasta and you won't gain weight.
I don't know what to believe.

[kxera]

It all depends on the vegan's specific diet and exercise tendencies.
Let's say you pretty much only eat fruit but you eat at least 2000 calories a day. If your metabolism is normal then your body will most likely burn it off even if you don't workout. If you eat more calories and include a bunch of junk-food that is considered vegan then your metabolism will slow down. Fruit has sugar which turns into energy; when the energy isn't used and the metabolism is slow then the person will gain weight. Same goes for vegans who don't eat necessarily fruits and veggies but rather just pizza and junk-food to survive; their metabolism will slow down and they gain weight. The vegan eating healthy including fruits, veggies, and whole grains and junk food occasionally will generally maintain size (more so if they work out which will make them lean and toned as well).

[Anonymous]

That's not bc if the diet it's bc if her metabolism or bc she's lying to promote a certain duet.

If you eat more than you use you vain weight. Doesn't matter if you eat a cup if butter or two loaves if bread and nothing else it a well rounded meal once a day

If you eat mire than you she you'll gain weight. That number us different fir everyone.

Sine people gain on 1500 eating nothing but healthy food.

Others lose weight in hamburgers and fries... Just friends in your metabolism.

Obviously there are reasons to eat healthy having nothing to do with weight.

Ideally you want healthy food and healthy weight. Bit probably better to eat healthy and be a bit chubby then sling living in rung dings and French fries. least if you eat healthy you just have to cut back.. The other who knows what havoc you're creating inside.

[Kythe]

It's a matter of thermodynamics and physiology: if you eat more calories than you burn, you will gain weight.

The problem is, knowing how much you burn, and how much you're eating, isn't always easy, much less a fixed amount. And one can influence the other (both directly and indirectly).

And yes, there are overweight vegans out there :) -- though it helps that a lot of vegetables don't have a lot of calories for their volume.

[BertMacklinFBI]

because raw foods tend to have fewer calories per larger portion sizes. and how do you know vegans eat 3k/daily? that doesn't make sense. it probably looks like they eat a lot but in reality the calories they're consuming are small but very nutritious at the same time.

[yaddayaddayadda02]

I would tend to doubt the scientific credentials of "Freelee The Banana Girl"

[woodyjhonson]

i heard of this new thing called exersize probly bs but its suppose to make fat people less fat I don't know probly just a myth?

[meatballs21]

Assuming for a second that these people are actually eating 3000 calories per day, they must be exercising in order to be 'healthy and fit'.