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I don't understand how counting calories can not work. It's the law of evergy conservation: energy in, energy out. This is not about water at all. Fat is just y

I don't understand how counting calories can not work. It's the law of evergy conservation: energy in, energy out. This is not about water at all. Fat is just your main energy storage mechanism. And what's good about fat is that you can burn through it relatively quickly unlike building muscle which takes years. You can even count how many steps you need to do to burn through a kg of fat. I've lost "post-covid" 15 kg (93kg to 78kg, 180cm height) in about 3 months with counting calories and ensuring a reasonable deficit. MyFitnessPal did help here. I was just getting about 1800-2000 calories daily (which is not too bad), walking about 10k-15k steps a day (a morning walk, lunch-time walk and an evening one) and doing some very lightweight kettlebell exercises. There are details on how you might want to track weekly averages instead of daily weight values. Certainly, i was never obese just slightly overweight. Obesity can mean certain serious food-related disorders but most of the time it's just a bad diet together with not moving a lot.

exfatloss 4y ago
> I don't understand how counting calories can not work. It's the law of evergy conservation: energy in, energy out. It's very easy. Your calories in depends on your calories out, and your calories out on your calories in. The body regulates both intake and expenditure dynamically, so if you mess with one of them and don't change anything else, it's most likely just going to adjust the other one. This has been mainstream science for a generation or longer, read The Hungry Brain by Guyenet for a good introduction. > Certainly, i was never obese just slightly overweight. Then it works, of course. Your metabolism was not "broken." This is like buffing out a bump in your car door. Won't work to fix a full-on collision. It's just not the same problem.

exfatloss 4y ago

> I don't understand how counting calories can not work. It's the law of evergy conservation: energy in, energy out. It's very easy. Your calories in depends on your calories out, and your calories out on your calories in. The body regulates both intake and expenditure dynamically, so if you mess with one of them and don't change anything else, it's most likely just going to adjust the other one. This has been mainstream science for a generation or longer, read The Hungry Brain by Guyenet for a good introduction. > Certainly, i was never obese just slightly overweight. Then it works, of course. Your metabolism was not "broken." This is like buffing out a bump in your car door. Won't work to fix a full-on collision. It's just not the same problem.