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as long as the calories on the labels are correlated with the real numbers it works. plus, its not like you're going to adjust your calorie consumption by 1% t
by andylei 11y ago
as long as the calories on the labels are correlated with the real numbers it works. plus, its not like you're going to adjust your calorie consumption by 1% to gain/lose weight. if you're altering your consumption by 20-30%, you can tolerate small amounts of errors.
also, counting calories works. anyone that has actually done it can tell you that.
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- randlet 11y agoThe estimates are close enough. Unless a food is wildly inaccurate, it all comes out in the wash.
- DanBC 11y ago> also, counting calories works. anyone that has actually done it can tell you that. We have years of experience to show that across a population simple calorie counting does not work.
- Floegipoky 11y agoIt depends on how you measure whether or not it works. In the short term, it is absolutely successful in causing weight loss. I've done it, I know others who have done it, there are people who make their livelihood helping others do it. On the other hand, the problem with calorie counting is that most people only do it for a very short time, because it sucks. It's totally unsustainable for most people because they don't have the time or aren't willing to change their lifestyle to include hours per day spent focusing on nutrition. So they lose some weight over the course of several months, then let their nutrition lapse and gain it all back in a few weeks. So in the long term you're right, across a population calorie counting doesn't work. But only because across a population people are lazy.
- DanBC 11y agoWe know that other approaches work better, and many of those approaches avoid counting calories. They work better because they focus on life-long behaviour changes; and on being maintainable.