9 reasons why counting calories is dumb

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  • CountingCaloriesSuxass
    CountingCaloriesSuxass Posts: 387 Member
    I read this and sighed..... There are SO MANY people out there who tell us that what we're doing is dumb, unhealthy, stupid, etc.etc.
    A calorie, is a calorie (or kilo-calorie to be exact). A kilo-calorie is the amount of heat required to raise one gram of water through one degree centigrade So if you eat 10 calories of protein, or ten calories of fat,. then you need the same amount of energy to burn that 10 calories off. The only difference in the calories is the order, and how, your metabolism burns off calories. That's an exact science, and too involved to dump into a blog.
    I know that counting calories works, it IS sustainable, and it IS a healthy way of losing weight. That is all there is to it. thousands of other people on MFP will agree, we have counted calories and we have lost weight. The only addition to counting calories that we make, and that we know is essential for our success is that we run, walk, swim, cross-train or lift heavy.

    Eat less, exercise more, count calories = lose weight.

    It's not rocket science - and please excuse the quote - MFP works. Count calories.

    to hell with all your simplicity and logic!

    Everyone knows that counting calories is pointless and you can eat more than you take in and still lose weight as long as you do master cleanses, followed by ketone cleanses, and then go on the cabbage diet for a month ...

    calories in vs calories out pffffffffft who does that????

    Who does that?? People that cant do it any other way..

    Calories in calories out is literally the only way to do it. Some people do it directly, some people kinda wing it or fake it with other methods and the calories actually work out for them.

    I prefer to focus on the things that literally, actually matter. At the end of the day, calories in calories out is how this all works. So I exercise direct control over the calories in and the calories out. And it works.

    wow...I guess my sarcasm went right over ya'lls heads...

    I was responding to CountingCalories, not you.

    How can you fake it though..I mean we all agree that is calorie in/calorie out..so there is no way to fake it...You either are one of those people that need to count calories to maintain control or you are not...
    There are tons of people out there in the world that are not fat and very healthy that have to idea how many calories they eat..are they fake healthy??
  • myofibril
    myofibril Posts: 4,500 Member
    How can you fake it though..I mean we all agree that is calorie in/calorie out..so there is no way to fake it...You either are one of those people that need to count calories to maintain control or you are not...
    There are tons of people out there in the world that are not fat and very healthy that have to idea how many calories they eat..are they fake healthy??

    You mean my wife's been faking it the entire time I've known her?

    I knew it!
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    I read this and sighed..... There are SO MANY people out there who tell us that what we're doing is dumb, unhealthy, stupid, etc.etc.
    A calorie, is a calorie (or kilo-calorie to be exact). A kilo-calorie is the amount of heat required to raise one gram of water through one degree centigrade So if you eat 10 calories of protein, or ten calories of fat,. then you need the same amount of energy to burn that 10 calories off. The only difference in the calories is the order, and how, your metabolism burns off calories. That's an exact science, and too involved to dump into a blog.
    I know that counting calories works, it IS sustainable, and it IS a healthy way of losing weight. That is all there is to it. thousands of other people on MFP will agree, we have counted calories and we have lost weight. The only addition to counting calories that we make, and that we know is essential for our success is that we run, walk, swim, cross-train or lift heavy.

    Eat less, exercise more, count calories = lose weight.

    It's not rocket science - and please excuse the quote - MFP works. Count calories.

    to hell with all your simplicity and logic!

    Everyone knows that counting calories is pointless and you can eat more than you take in and still lose weight as long as you do master cleanses, followed by ketone cleanses, and then go on the cabbage diet for a month ...

    calories in vs calories out pffffffffft who does that????

    Who does that?? People that cant do it any other way..

    Calories in calories out is literally the only way to do it. Some people do it directly, some people kinda wing it or fake it with other methods and the calories actually work out for them.

    I prefer to focus on the things that literally, actually matter. At the end of the day, calories in calories out is how this all works. So I exercise direct control over the calories in and the calories out. And it works.

    wow...I guess my sarcasm went right over ya'lls heads...

    I was responding to CountingCalories, not you.

    How can you fake it though..I mean we all agree that is calorie in/calorie out..so there is no way to fake it...You either are one of those people that need to count calories to maintain control or you are not...
    There are tons of people out there in the world that are not fat and very healthy that have to idea how many calories they eat..are they fake healthy??

    What I meant was that you can fake your method. You can say "I'm not counting calories" and lose weight, but the reality is that if you're losing weight it's because you're restricting your calorie intake. No matter what method you find successful, at its base it's calorie counting through some method.

    I prefer to take the direct route by counting them directly, instead of implementing some extra abstraction layer to pretend I'm not actually worried about calories.
  • ShaniWulffe
    ShaniWulffe Posts: 458 Member
    One reason counting calories is not dumb:

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    Score:
    Counting calories 1
    Not counting calories 0

    Another reason:

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    And one year later...

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    All of my progress pics, including measurements, are here: http://s571.photobucket.com/user/ShannonYTP/library/MFP

    Running Total Score:
    Counting calories 2
    Not counting calories 0
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    ***wall of text removed ***

    What I meant was that you can fake your method. You can say "I'm not counting calories" and lose weight, but the reality is that if you're losing weight it's because you're restricting your calorie intake. No matter what method you find successful, at its base it's calorie counting through some method.

    I prefer to take the direct route by counting them directly, instead of implementing some extra abstraction layer to pretend I'm not actually worried about calories.

    I believe this is mostly true. I do believe there are some people who have eaten to maintain their weight so long that they don't give it much thought any more. That their eating habits are simply that - habit. But I find it hard to believe that anyone has never thought about it and remained thin.

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