So today at the grocery store, I was checking out the aisle with the Campbell's chunky soups. Let me be clear in that I am in no way advocating for a terrible diet of soups filled with preservatives, etc. But when I looked at the labels, I saw that a giant can of soup could be anywhere between 200 to 300 calories (and some quite a bit more than that).
But it got me thinking -- if I grabbed one of the 200 calorie cans, I would need to eat six cans of soup every day to meet even a 1200 calorie/day diet.
Now that just seems incredibly ridiculous to me. I cannot fathom eating more than one of these giant chunky soups in a day, let alone six! But if we were looking strictly at calorie-deficits and the whole CICO thing, then theoretically you could hit 1200 calories through six soups -- that's a looooot of soup!
It got me thinking even further about how much food we actually have to eat in order to gain weight, but it doesn't seem to me like I'm eating that much food -- even if we were to go on the more calorie-dense soup that are around 400 calories, that's 3 cans of giant soup each day to hit 1200 calories, which still seems insane to me.
Again, I'm not actually advocating for this kind of diet. I'm just amazed at how my perception of the amount of food I eat is so screwy, and what that actually looks like in fake soup-units. Like, am I actually eating more than 6 soup cans a day's worth of food? Where is it all coming from?
I ask this in particular because I'm a male, early 30's with a relatively sedentary lifestyle, and I would have to eat 8 to 10 cans of soup under this metric to even just maintain the weight lol.
Any thoughts?
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