> Anecdotal, but a few overweight people I've known have been terrible at estimating how much they eat. That's pretty much the thrust of the article. Calorie c

> Anecdotal, but a few overweight people I've known have been terrible at estimating how much they eat. That's pretty much the thrust of the article. Calorie counting works in theory, but evidently the average person finds it too hard to follow (either miscalculating, overestimating, forgetting to track or just giving up).