I agree about calorie counting, I think it's a valuable tool, and I recommend it to everyone who's interested in losing weight. I don't do it all the time becau

I agree about calorie counting, I think it's a valuable tool, and I recommend it to everyone who's interested in losing weight. I don't do it all the time because it's a pain in the ass, but I do it periodically when my weight starts going up for whatever reason. It really clearly illustrates how little idea you have of what you're putting in your mouth if you don't do it. I'll disagree on the article, though. I thought it did a great job of illustrating why the "extra calories due to the exercise I did" argument is too simplistic. Compensatory behaviours, metabolic compensation, and all the rest mean that the calories out part of the equation is much more complicated than the standard linear model would suggest. I use MacroFactor when I'm tracking which automatically adjusts my calorie budget based on my food intake and weight movement, and it's astonishing how little difference exercise makes.