I disagree with the article title - counting calories _is_ the key to weight loss. Aside from gut flora and the random virus that increases your body's propensi

I disagree with the article title - counting calories _is_ the key to weight loss. Aside from gut flora and the random virus that increases your body's propensity for storing fat - your body's only source of fuel is food. Calories are a simplistic, yet generally close enough, approximation of a normalized quantifier for food. Drop the calories and you drop the fat. The title should be "Counting calories is not the key to sustaining motivation for weight loss". My source, albeit biased, is my own experiences losing weight. I started counting calories 10 years ago and lost ~120 lbs. Over the last 10 years I've put on ~40 lb bringing my 6'4 frame to 200 lbs while going to the gym and counting calories.