Actually, the thinking is that if you eat right, you don't have to count calories. It's certainly easier to say "avoid food types A and B", rather than "take al

Actually, the thinking is that if you eat right, you don't have to count calories. It's certainly easier to say "avoid food types A and B", rather than "take all the foods you eat, get the calories per gram, weigh them up, then count how much you're eating, make sure you stay below this limit, and just ignore that nagging feeling in you're brain that tells you you're hungry, you could avoid that feeling easily by eating right, but that's too complicated for you, just eat whatever and write down these numbers instead." I don't know for sure what works, but arguing by "what's more simple" is stupidity. "How much easier than "eat less calories than you use" can it be?" Sending a rocket to space is easy. You just need enough fuel to get to space.