yo mr turbo, explain please how can a calorie be empty,serious question, i never understood this.
does this mean the body has no way to store it other than as bodyfat?
It is just a term nutritionist use to describe a calorie that will not benefit you in anyway. For example calories from protein are good cause they will give you valuable amino acids and some calories from rice, potatoes, oats etc but anything you do not need would be classified under the term ''empty calories''
so what turbo is trying to say I think is why waist the calories on empty shit when you can be eating food with nutritional value when you are already limited on calories due to trying to keep under your calorie maintenance. I agree with him.
From experience there is no room for a bodybuilder to eat chocolate, cookies and doughnuts 2 weeks out while trying to keep below maintenance, by this time his calorie maintenance has already plummeted to low numbers and he needs to be eating lots of protein since it is easier to lose muscle in the lower bodyfat levels.