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My main gripe is that low-carb dieting is being sold as a "one stop shop" for dieting. You'll notice how the undertone of the article is that it's more "health
by laichzeit0 12y ago
My main gripe is that low-carb dieting is being sold as a "one stop shop" for dieting. You'll notice how the undertone of the article is that it's more "healthy" and "lower risk" to eat low carb. This complete myth if you count your calories. It's the programming world equivalent of someone going "A call for Functional Programming" and then telling you how shit imperative languages are. If everyone just coded in Haskell the type system would take care of 90% of the bugs.
And no it's completely trivial to track your intake. You need at most a kitchen scale and an app on your phone. It probably takes me in total 5 minutes of my day to track everything. You greatly overestimate the difficulty.
- mark_integerdsv 12y agoDown 15kg since April, Keto. I highly doubt that anyone doing Keto with a good amount of success is doing so without tracking macros. It is ironic that you'd decry ignorance and oversimplification when in point of fact you are guilty of the same in doing so.
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- laichzeit0 12y agoFrom the article itself: "It included a racially diverse group of 150 men and women — a rarity in clinical nutrition studies — who were assigned to follow diets for one year that limited either the amount of carbs or fat that they could eat, _but not overall calories_." emphasis mine. This particular study is touting the virtues of not tracking calories. It's basically what the entire article is about. Eating low carb without counting calories.
- elliott34 12y agoDo you work from home?
- laichzeit0 12y agoNo I don't, but the only meal I eat at work is lunch and a few snacks, which I prepare the night before. I usually make lunch for the next 2 days to save time.