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Six corn chips contain 140 calories!!! Six??? Seriously? What a shocking discovery. It is a big bag, and our houseguest probably ate at least 30 chips each night. At least. I would venture to say closer to 60.

Click, click, click. Kaching, kaching. Do the math. Lets assume that she ate only 30 corn chips a night. That is 5 times 140 (calories) which equals 700. That is 700 extra calories a day, from a mere handful of corn chips essentially. They go down extremely easily. You can munch and crunch your way through 30 chips in the blink of an eye.

In addition, 50 of each of those140 calories are from partially saturated fat. So for the 30 corn chips / 700 calories, that is 250 calories exclusively from relatively unhealthy fat.

So: More math. 700 extra calories a day, times 7 days, equals 5000 extra calories a week. 1750 of them directly from fat.

So OMG. Calories do matter if they come from the wrong source!!!

We are far from caloric experts here at Wholly Macro, and we'll tell you why in a minute, but can we just say: That is a lot of extra calories!! 

A normal and healthy caloric intake per day would be between 1800 and 2200 calories, depending of course on individual size and activity level. So 5000 extra calories a week, close to 2000 of them from partially saturated fat, is like eating two to three extra days worth of calories per week.  

Perfect if you are trying to pack on pounds, but not so perfect if you are not!

The reason that we are not caloric experts here at Wholly Macro is because we firmly believe in calories in relation to food source. In other words, calories become pretty much irrelevant when they come from pure, natural, healthy food sources. Calories are one way to measure and keep track of food intake and weight control, but this approach only makes sense if the calories you are counting are healthy ones.

Limiting your food intake while consuming calories from unhealthy food sources is just not a wise approach, for oh so many reasons.

We feel that it is far better to eat a sufficient and satisfying amount of food per day, food that has been selected from all of the essential food groups, in order to insure proper nutrition and balanced weight control. These foods are so naturally low in calories, that calories become less relevant.

For optimal weight and good health you want to avoid unhealthy food. Period. Regardless of calories.

If your diet is based on 100% whole unprocessed grains (such as brown rice), lean protein (such as legumes), loads of fresh produce (please see our menu!), and unsaturated oils such as olive, coconut, and sesame oil, you could actually take in more calories than a person eating baked, processed, packaged foods, sugars and syrups, and saturated fats from animal sources (meat, poultry, and dairy), without any impact on your weight.

If you wanted to gain weight you could increase your (healthy) food intake, or amount of meals per day, or add naturally high in calorie foods from healthy sources (such as mochi, amasake, and nut and seed butters), and / or add more unsaturated fat to your diet via the above mentioned unsaturated oils and / or fish.

And if you wanted to loose weight, you could simply decrease your food intake and / or oil consumption, and / or proportion of grain and legume to vegetable.

And of course you must exercise, appropriate to your condition, no matter what your circumstance.

But please see a qualified macrobiotic counselor or other health care provider of your choice for more personalized information, because there are always variables, and your condition going into any type of weight gain, weight maintenance, or weight loss program needs to be taken into consideration before commencing.

As for our houseguest: Once we pointed out the staggering amount of extra calories she was quite innocently consuming via her little corn chip habit, we found several lower calorie alternatives for her, such as a handful of walnut halves, leftover whole grains with a nice umeboshi tahini dressing, half an avocado with the same umeboshi tahini dressing, and we even found organic pretzels from Whole Foods that are yeast free, sugar free, and 35 of them contain only 110 calories. Do the math. A vast improvement over the corn chips, wouldn't you say??

Plus, they satisfy the need for a crunchy munch!

In The Best Of Health To You As Always.

Gayle and Jaime / Wholly Macro