Olive Oil... Do the calories matter?

[darksol]

I have found a new favorite food.  Microwaved chopped spinich with some olive oil, with a little salt and pepper. Tastes great.  My wife has gotten into the habbit on putting olive oil on everything.  She keeps saying that since olive oil is good fats, the calories don't matter.  I say calories are caloires, and it doesn't matter where they come from.  Olive Oil has 120 calores per tablespoon.  Considering how much she poors on her salads, I would assume there is easily 1000 caloires of olive oil on it.  What do you all think?  I need some experts to tell me the truth on this.  So I can either kiss her ass, or tell her to stop listening to her fat organic eating, haven't done cardio in a decade friends.  I am trying to get cut before going back to see family around christmas.  Hitting a stair machine for 45 minutes everyday plus some weights. 

[England_1]

Of course the calories matter. Olive oil has very healthy mono unsaturated fats, but it's also very energy dense, so you can't go around drinking the stuff like water.

[The Squadfather]

put it to you this way, the only thing i use it for is coating my egg white pan in the morning and when i drop it completely and use Pam instead i drop 8-10 pounds in two weeks, so yes Olive Oil adds a lot of calories to a daily diet but it's very beneficial.

[flexingtonsteele]

Drenching all your food in olive oil everyday is a good way to get fat in the long run.

Too much of any macronutrient will get you fat, including fats, and incluing monounsaturated fats.
I dont care how good they are for you.

Cut down on the olive oil bro.

2 tablespoons a day on your salads should be sufficient.

[suckmymuscle]

Olive Oil...Do the calories matter?

  Yes.

SUCKMYMUSCLE

[darksol]

Thanks, appreciate the advise!

[DK II]

Drenching all your food in olive oil everyday is a good way to get fat in the long run.

Too much of any macronutrient will get you fat, including fats, and incluing monounsaturated fats.
I dont care how good they are for you.

Cut down on the olive oil bro.

2 tablespoons a day on your salads should be sufficient.

good advice.

It was mentioned here but i want to say it explicitly: Olive oil should not be heated.

[copacetic]

good advice.

It was mentioned here but i want to say it explicitly: Olive oil should not be heated.

what about the olive oil version of pam? why? i use it for my chicken all the time and it seems fine.

[Princess L]

good advice.

It was mentioned here but i want to say it explicitly: Olive oil should not be heated.

Excessively heating olive oil will only evaporate the alcohols and esters which make up its taste and 'aroma". Heating it will not change its health aspects, only the flavor. Use a cheaper olive oil which doesn't have much flavor to begin with if you want to fry with it and add a more flavorful oil after cooking.

[wes]

fats = 9 calories per gram.............the calories add up real quickly and they matter a whole lot.

[Princess L]

  She keeps saying that since olive oil is good fats, the calories don't matter. 

tell her to stop listening to her fat organic eating, haven't done cardio in a decade friends. 

Where do people come up with such hairbrained ideas? 

[Deicide]

Heating olive oil destroys the molecular integrity of it.

Actually, using butter is better; it is more stable, molecularly speaking.