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Counting calories works. A calorie can't become more than it is, just less if the body can't use it for some reason. Worst case you will feel hungry if you eat

Counting calories works. A calorie can't become more than it is, just less if the body can't use it for some reason. Worst case you will feel hungry if you eat the wrong calories, but you will definitely lose weight.

JoeAltmaier 9y ago
Sure, if you can manage it. And therein lies the rub! Food is emotional, and hunger corrupts our thinking processes. That's pretty much the whole game right there.
- Double_a_92 9y ago
  Yeah but you don't have to only eat vegetables to feel full. Just eating "normal" food in the right/limited amounts feels fine (at least after the first few weeks). Also I doubt that people trying to diet would just eat a few candys for lunch and try to live with that. And surprisingly the full-feeling does actually correlate with the amount of calories you eat. If you eat 2 strips of bacon (which doesn't seem much) and let it sit for some time (without eating more) hunger passes. Maybe not as much as with better food, but it still does to some degree.
cies 9y ago
Never said it did not work. Just saying that it's not y preferred route for teaching kids about food and health. Food has many parameters and so does health. Reducing it to calories is... Hmmm. Over simplifying?
- arkh 9y ago
  > Over simplifying? Which makes it dead simple. Not easy, simple. If you want obese people to lose weight you want instructions making it not complex. "Should I learn a new way to eat food, new recipes or start cooking for real? No thanks." "Oh! I can just eat less and switch to 0 sugar soda; no need to make my life harder? Let's try this" Once they have learned to eat less you can add the trick which is you can stuff your belly with 2lbs of veggies and get less than 1k calories. But for people used to the 5mn in the microwave way of cooking it's an added hurdle.

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Counting calories works. A calorie can't become more than it is, just less if the body can't use it for some reason. Worst case you will feel hungry if you eat

by Double_a_92 9y ago

JoeAltmaier 9y ago
Sure, if you can manage it. And therein lies the rub! Food is emotional, and hunger corrupts our thinking processes. That's pretty much the whole game right there.
- Double_a_92 9y ago
  Yeah but you don't have to only eat vegetables to feel full. Just eating "normal" food in the right/limited amounts feels fine (at least after the first few weeks). Also I doubt that people trying to diet would just eat a few candys for lunch and try to live with that. And surprisingly the full-feeling does actually correlate with the amount of calories you eat. If you eat 2 strips of bacon (which doesn't seem much) and let it sit for some time (without eating more) hunger passes. Maybe not as much as with better food, but it still does to some degree.
cies 9y ago
Never said it did not work. Just saying that it's not y preferred route for teaching kids about food and health. Food has many parameters and so does health. Reducing it to calories is... Hmmm. Over simplifying?
- arkh 9y ago
  > Over simplifying? Which makes it dead simple. Not easy, simple. If you want obese people to lose weight you want instructions making it not complex. "Should I learn a new way to eat food, new recipes or start cooking for real? No thanks." "Oh! I can just eat less and switch to 0 sugar soda; no need to make my life harder? Let's try this" Once they have learned to eat less you can add the trick which is you can stuff your belly with 2lbs of veggies and get less than 1k calories. But for people used to the 5mn in the microwave way of cooking it's an added hurdle.