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The broader point I’m trying to make is that calorie counting DOES NOT work long term. It’s exhausting. It’s monotonous. It’s inaccurate. It’s impossible to do
by sbenitoj 8y ago
The broader point I’m trying to make is that calorie counting DOES NOT work long term.
It’s exhausting.
It’s monotonous.
It’s inaccurate.
It’s impossible to do unless you’re eating at chain restaurant all the time.
And we are not robots where ONLY calories matter.
In the short term people can willpower themselves to do almost anything.
In the long term WHAT we eat has a bigger affect than HOW MUCH we eat.
Different foods affect our hormones differently.
You can’t eat 1,200 calories of sugar a day and expect to feel satiated from your diet, you will feel starving all the time.
You can eat 1,200 calories of protein/veggies/healthy fat and feel satiated from your diet.
Hormones drive our long-term hunger levels, and foods affect our hormone levels.
People before the 1950s were almost all lean and they had no calorie counts.
People have all the calorie counts they can stand today and most people are overweight in the West.
The difference is people eat WAY more junk food now than they did before the 1950s, it wasn’t even available back then.
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- cbo100 8y agoDude, I can see what you're saying, but as somebody who apparently does this professionally you need to work on how you get your point across. I've lost over 15KG/35 pounds since the start of the year doing nothing but CICO - it's not incorrect to say that Calories is the king when it comes to how to lose the weight. For everything else you are saying, it's not wrong either - anybody who starts CICO pretty quickly discovers that "Yes I can eat anything, but my god I will be hungry at 7pm if I used all my Calories on KFC and Donuts" - but don't keep saying simply that "Counting calories is not going to work". Edit to add: and my wife and I have done this all with cooking home made meals at least 5-6 nights a week. It only takes a minute to enter a recipe in a calculator app.
- sbenitoj 8y agoAppreciate your comment. To be clear the population of people on HN is a self-selecting, techie group of ppl. Most people cannot do CICO long term. And even if you can you’ll realize it doesn’t work the leaner you get, quality becomes increasingly important at that point.